Published December 17, 2020 © MPL-2.0

Automated SolarPanel Cleaner by Bolt WI-FI using Servo motor

Controlling the turning ON and OFF of the Servo Motor using Bolt Wi-Fi Module.

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Automated SolarPanel Cleaner by Bolt WI-FI using Servo motor

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Bolt IoT Bolt WiFi Module

SG90 Micro-servo motor

Jumper wires (generic)

USB-A to Mini-USB Cable

Software apps and online services

Bolt IoT Bolt Cloud

Bolt IoT Android App

Story

The project is all about to control the servo motor by using Internet.

Have u notice about the car wipers? which is used to remove rain drops, ice, dust/or debris from a vehicle window so that vehicle’s operation can work better and to see what’s ahead of them.

Similarly the Solar Power Plants will be kilometer long and every solar panel uses brushes needs to be cleaned once in a while. If the dust gets on it, the efficiency of the solar panel decreases. Manually we can’t clean it every day. So that motor cleaner came just like car wipers but here we should do wiring about kilometer long, again there will be high damage because of distance

To overcome this issue we are using a Bolt IOT Wi-Fi module ON/OFF by operating a servo motor.

Hardware setup:

Step 1) Connect the jumper cables from the Servo motor to the Bolt device in the fashion given below:

The servo motor should have three wires coming out of it. Check out the image given below, Brown (0 GPIO pin), Red (5V Digital GPIO pin) and Orange (GND input) in color.

Software apps and online service:

To power-up the Bolt Wi-Fi module, we need a power supply of 3.3v USB cable when I connect it to the Wi-Fi module, Blue light will start blinking it means that our Wi-Fi is turned on and it is searching for an Hotspot, So when it connects to the Hotspot blue light becomes stable and green light will turn on and thus the set-up of Bolt Wi-Fi module is ready.

You can find detailed steps here.

https://youtu.be/smZxbJ5u2Fo

Setting up a Product on Bolt Cloud

Step 1: Now I used software apps is the Bold Cloud we need to open the Google chrome go to

https://cloud.boltiot.com/

Step 2: Now the homepage of your bolt cloud account will appear. Create product https://docs.boltiot.com/docs/adding-a-product

Here I gave the name – servomotor1, I connected to the input device, and I collected the data from – GPIO. Save it.

Step 3: Writing code for controlling devices

https://docs.boltiot.com/docs/using-custom-files-in-your-product

Here I have written the code in HTML.extension

Save the file.

Step 4: Linking the Device to the Product

https://docs.boltiot.com/docs/link-device-to-a-product

1. Automated controlling of Servo Motor

After adding the device to the product click on to the deploy configuration and then view this device, it will redirect to the new tab where you can see ON/OFF button.

4. Turning the Servo Motor ON/OFF

If you click on to the ON button, servo motor will start rotating in between 0 and 180 degree and if you click on to the OFF button, the servo motor will stop to rotate.

Code

turning ON/OFF of the servo-motor

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

    <head>

        <title>Automated Solar Panel Controller</title>

        <script type="text/javascript" src="https://cloud.boltiot.com/static/js/boltCommands.js"></script>

        <script>

        setKey('{{ApiKey}}','{{Name}}');

        </script>

    </head>

    <body>

        <center>

	<div class="ON">

        <button class="button button1" onclick="digitalWrite(0, 'HIGH');">ON </button>
	
	</div>
	
	<div class="OFF">

        <button class="button button2" onclick="digitalWrite(0, 'LOW');">OFF</button>

	</div>

        </center>

    </body>

</html>

<style type="text/css">

   body {
       margin:0;
       padding:0;
   }
   div {
       height: 40.9vh;
       width: 60.5vh;
       align-content: center;
   }
   .button {
       border: none;
       color: black;
       padding: 20px 30px;
       text-align: center;
       width:300px;
       height:100px;
       text-decoration: none;
       display: block;
       font-size: 50px;
       font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
       box-shadow: 1px 1px 6px 0px black;
   }
   
   .button1 {background-color: #00ddff;
       position: center;
       top: 30%;
       left:40%;
   }
   .button2 {background-color: #ff7c00;
       position: center;
       top: 30%;
       left:40%;
   }
  
</style>

Credits

Seema Sheik

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Automated SolarPanel Cleaner by Bolt WI-FI using Servo motor

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Software apps and online services

Story

Schematics

Schematics

Code

turning ON/OFF of the servo-motor

Credits

Seema Sheik

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Automated SolarPanel Cleaner by Bolt WI-FI using Servo motor

Automated SolarPanel Cleaner by Bolt WI-FI using Servo motor

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Software apps and online services

Story

Schematics

Schematics

Code

turning ON/OFF of the servo-motor

Credits

Seema Sheik

Comments

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