Sentinella: Smart Monitoring of Photovoltaic Systems at Panel Level

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2188-2199

  Ando, Bruno ^a   Baglio, Salvatore ^a   Pistorio, Antonio ^a   Tina, Giuseppe Marco ^a   Ventura, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anomalous aging; causes of inefficiency; efficiency estimation; photovoltaic (PV) monitoring; smart multisensor approach.

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; FAULT DETECTION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SENSOR NODES; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

CAUSES OF INEFFICIENCY; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; DISTRIBUTED FAULT DIAGNOSIS; EFFICIENCY ESTIMATION; ELECTRICAL EFFICIENCY; MULTI SENSOR; PHOTOVOLTAIC; REAL OPERATING CONDITIONS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 85027934791     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2014.2386931     Document Type: Article

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