EASY Pv
EGNSS high Accuracy SYstem improving PhotoVoltaic plants maintenance
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Project "EASY Pv" data sheet
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| Coordinator |
SISTEMATICA SPA
Organization address contact info |
| Coordinator Country | Italy [IT] |
| Project website | http://www.easy-pv.eu |
| Total cost | 1˙284˙068 € |
| EC max contribution | 935˙973 € (73%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.2.1.6. (INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies – Space) |
| Code Call | H2020-Galileo-2015-1 |
| Funding Scheme | IA |
| Starting year | 2016 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2016-02-01 to 2018-01-31 |
Partnership
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| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SISTEMATICA SPA | IT (TERNI) | coordinator | 325˙937.00 |
| 2 | TOPVIEW SRL | IT (SAN NICOLA LA STRADA) | participant | 173˙250.00 |
| 3 | ALPHA CONSULTANTS (UK) LTD | UK (LONDON) | participant | 153˙085.00 |
| 4 | Entec Spa | IT (Savigliano) | participant | 102˙200.00 |
| 5 | AALBORG UNIVERSITET | DK (AALBORG) | participant | 74˙118.00 |
| 6 | DEEP BLUE SRL | IT (ROMA) | participant | 57˙750.00 |
| 7 | AARHUS UNIVERSITET | DK (AARHUS C) | participant | 49˙631.00 |
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Project objective
EGNSS high Accuracy SYstem improving PhotoVoltaic plants maintenance.
The purpose of the EASY PV proposal is to provide a time and cost effective service as direct response to the growing need expressed by several maintainers and PV field owners to enhance the energy production of their plants.
As photovoltaic plants are aging, it is not uncommon that their production lowers due to inefficiency caused by unknown modules on the plant lowering the whole plant’s productivity. Thermal inspections are valuable for PV owners and maintainers, but relevant procedures (currently performed by operators with handheld cameras) are time demanding and sometimes expensive due to safety costs for the personnel involved in the operations (e.g.: PV modules on roofs, rough areas, …). It stands to reason that today such operations are not fully automated yet and the responsive recognition of a broken module might result very difficult in a large PV plant.
As a first improved solution, the growing technology of RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems) is exploited to gather thermic images which are geo-referenced by GPS positioning and processed by computer vision algorithms. However this configuration is very respectful but still not enough in order to provide the required positioning accuracy for the automation and fast identification of the broken modules. Only the aid of accurate positioning allows a cost effective solution to reduce time, costs and risks for personnel involved: the added value provided by the employment of GNSS high accuracy solutions as novelty in the RPAS domain is the key driver for the EASY PV turnkey solution.
Finally EASY PV solution is conceived to build up an automatic system for acquiring, georeferencing and processing both visible and thermal images captured by an RPAS equipped with a Galileo/EGNOS high accuracy receiver, flying over a photovoltaic field. In this way it is possible to easily detect the defective modules to be replaced.
Deliverables
| Commercial support to field test v1.0 | Other | 2019-05-30 13:24:12 |
| Maintenance operational course (Presentation materiel) v1.0 | Other | 2019-05-30 13:24:20 |
| EASY PV platform HW | Other | 2019-05-30 13:23:45 |
| Articles/ press releases/ Dissemination activities (delivered during duration of the project) | Other | 2019-05-30 13:24:28 |
| Executive Summary | Documents, reports | 2019-05-30 13:24:29 |
| Project Brochure v2.0 | Other | 2019-05-30 13:24:28 |
| RPAS (including automated ground station) user manual | Documents, reports | 2019-05-30 13:23:36 |
| Maintenance and M&C platform SW | Other | 2019-05-30 13:24:26 |
| 7th Quarterly progress report | Documents, reports | 2019-05-30 13:24:29 |
| EASY PV RoadMap v3.0 | Documents, reports | 2019-05-30 13:24:22 |
| 6th Quarterly progress report | Documents, reports | 2019-05-30 13:24:22 |
| 8th Quarterly progress report | Documents, reports | 2019-05-30 13:24:20 |
| Operational Validation Report | Documents, reports | 2019-05-30 13:23:54 |
| Maintenance and M&C platform user manual | Documents, reports | 2019-05-30 13:24:27 |
| EASY PV RoadMap v2.0 | Documents, reports | 2019-05-30 13:24:27 |
| Test and Verification Campaign Report | Documents, reports | 2019-05-30 13:23:28 |
| EASY-PV Data Management Plan | Open Research Data Pilot | 2019-05-30 13:24:29 |
| Commercial support to field test v2.0 | Other | 2019-05-30 13:24:21 |
| Technical workshop (Presentation materiel) | Other | 2019-05-30 13:24:27 |
| Users’ workshop | Other | 2019-05-30 13:24:28 |
| RPAS (including automated ground station) SW | Other | 2019-05-30 13:23:36 |
| Test and Verification Campaign Methodology | Documents, reports | 2019-05-30 13:15:58 |
| 1st Quarterly progress report | Documents, reports | 2019-05-30 13:15:55 |
| Web site | Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. | 2019-05-30 13:24:25 |
| Project Brochure v1.0 | Other | 2019-05-30 13:24:04 |
| 4th Quarterly progress report | Documents, reports | 2019-05-30 13:15:52 |
| 2nd Quarterly progress report | Documents, reports | 2019-05-30 13:15:53 |
| RPAS Standardisation, Regulation and Legacy document | Documents, reports | 2019-05-30 13:16:04 |
| 5th Quarterly progress report | Documents, reports | 2019-05-30 13:16:00 |
| Dissemination Plan towards potential users | Documents, reports | 2019-05-30 13:15:50 |
| EASY PV platform Architecture Design v1.0 | Documents, reports | 2019-05-30 13:16:01 |
| User Needs, Operational Concepts and System Requirements document | Documents, reports | 2019-05-30 13:16:00 |
| EASY PV RoadMap v1.0 | Documents, reports | 2019-05-30 13:15:51 |
| EASY PV platform Architecture Design v2.0 | Documents, reports | 2019-05-30 13:16:02 |
| 3rd Quarterly progress report | Documents, reports | 2019-05-30 13:15:56 |
Take a look to the deliverables list in detail: detailed list of EASY Pv deliverables.
Publications
| year | authors and title | journal | last update |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 |
Marco Nisi, Fabio Menichetti Sistematica S.p.a,
Bilal Muhammad , Ramjee Prasad CTIF Section, Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Denmark
Ernestina Cianca CTIF Section, Department of Electronics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Alberto Mennella, Graziano Gagliarde TopView srl
Davide Marenchino Entec S.p.a, EGNSS High Accuracy System Improving Photovoltaic Plant Maintenance using RPAS integrated with Low-cost RTK Receiver published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
2019-06-18 |
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