The invention refers to an intelligent system that can enable the monitoring of the operating parameters of the photovoltaic panels, that can include but are not limited to, voltage, electrical current intensity, ambient temperature, local air speed, local air pressure and enable the functionalities of a proprietary data analysis system.

The invention refers, but it is not limited to, an intelligent system that generates operational functionalities that enables the power grid operators to monitor the functioning parameters of the photovoltaic panels and to capitalize the energy produced by these in real time. The invention can be used, but it is not limited to, in domestic field and in the industrial field with the remark that the system can perform at its highest efficiency in case of the consumers that use and/ or require time scheduled energy delivery. However the proposed system encompasses a variety of functional features that are relevant in the use case of the exchange of very large quantity spot electrical energy requests, this use case being very relevant but not limited to the charging stations for electric mobility platforms and peak energy draws for national grids.

Based on the biggest two use cases, but not limited to, the currently installed photovoltaic panels are already deployed for electrical energy generation, both by individuals in their homes, and big companies who wish to increase their cost efficiency and to significantly mitigate their carbon emission footprint of the environment by producing green energy.

One common drawback of the system currently under use involving solutions for production of electrical energy using photovoltaic panels is that they cannot provide relevant third parties with low latency and high granularity operational, control and monitoring data. Furthermore, the data that is collected using currently deployed systems and or solutions does not adhere to a perpetual uniform metrology method, standard or set of norms.

Also, currently under use systems and or solutions are subject to highly erratic time induced precision derating, drift and or degradation with no means of traceable recalibration or realignment to a traceable metrology grade standard.

Another disadvantage of the solutions in use is that they cannot provide a real time control of the operating parameters of these photovoltaic panels, the precision of the collected data being limited to maximum 0,5%, there is no control over the energy transferred in the public grid which makes impossible a correct and in real time payment for the energy produced over the necessary consumption of the end user. They can provide only data regarding the energy provided at the end user’s level which means that 80% of the produced energy ”is lost” in terms of information.

The technical problem to be solved by the invention is to design a system that works using, but not limited to, already installed photovoltaic panels capable to continuous monitor and log both the operational parameters of the panels and the quantity of energy transferred in the public grid being capable, meanwhile, to simultaneously capitalize on the resulting data energy in real time.

The intelligent system for monitoring and capitalizing the green energy produced by photovoltaic panels, according to the invention, solves the technical problem by consisting of photovoltaic panels that mime a cryptocurrency using less than 0,1% of the energy produced by a 200 W solar panel. In fact, the system consists of several photovoltaic panels organized in groups, each panel having on its backside a hardware and each group being connected by a wire or wireless connection to a communication aggregator that provides telemetry and securing services. The aggregator has the role to transmit the measured values in a correct and secure way to the services distributed in a calculation and manipulation data cloud.

The intelligent system for monitoring and capitalizing the green energy produced by photovoltaic panels, according to the invention, solves the technical problem by also consisting a blockchain.

The equipment in the cloud provide data auditing, accreditation and encryption services which means that they are providing services specific to a blockchain. In this way, each Watt of energy generated by the photovoltaic panels is assigned a ’’code” which contains, but is not limited to, the physical location combined with a UTC (Unix Timestamp Converter) traceable time stamp and the quantity of the measured energy together with environmental parameters. In this way, each Watt is permanently monitored and its traceability in time and space along with the value evolution is also known by the means of blockchain technologies thus creating a unique time traceable document trail of transactional history, comprising but not limited to, genesis, ownership exchange and consumption. The blockchain is responsible to assign each generated power encrypted Watt a certain quantity of cryptocurrency according to the values on the energy exchange and the rate of exchange of the respective cryptocurrency.

The system can, but does not necessarily have to, include a hardware subsystem or element to be fitted to an electrical energy transformer or power station, another hardware being connected to the national energy network. Another hardware subsystem or element can, but does not necessarily have to, be connected to the final beneficiary of the energy generated by the photovoltaic panels.

The intelligent system for monitoring and capitalizing the green energy produced by photovoltaic panels, according to the invention, has the following advantages:

The repetitive and blockchain traceable precision of the data collected by the system is better than 0,5% or 5000 ppm (parts per million, the standard method to express the deviations or a deviation with the granularity of one part from a million parts);

Energy usage by the system components 100 % traceable, from green sources and it does not draw more than 0,1% or 1000 ppm of the energy produce by a typical 300 W photovoltaic panel;

The high precision of the system allows a permanent evaluation of the performances and efficiency of the photovoltaic panels and can follow in time their performances through the blockchain;

It reduces the environmental pollution;

It is efficient with regard to the collected and processed data;

It is an efficient system with regard to the energy capitalization that significantly reduces the pay time of the producer of such energy and the capitalized value is very correct and in real time;

It offers the owners of the photovoltaic panels the possibility to get extra income.

Further on, there is presented a practical example of the intelligent system for monitoring and capitalizing the green energy produced by photovoltaic panels, according to the invention, related to Fig.1 which represents the general scheme of an intelligent system for monitoring and capitalizing the green energy produced by photovoltaic panels.

The system consists of some groups 1 of photovoltaic panels 2, each of the photovoltaic panels 2 having a hardware 3 on its backside and each group 1 of photovoltaic panels being connected by wire or wireless connection to a communication aggregator 4 that provides telemetry and securing services. Telemetry works based on a mathematic model which enables the exact identification of the source of the gathered information, namely the photovoltaic panel 2. The mathematic model can be in the shape of a measured set of values, such as electrical current and temperature.

The aggregator 4 has the role to transmit the measured values in a correct and secure way to the services distributed in a cloud 5 that is meant to calculate and manipulate the data. The equipment in the cloud 5 provide data auditing, accreditation and encryption services which means that these specific services are delivered by a blockchain 6 located in the cloud 5. In this way, each Watt of energy generated by the photovoltaic panels is assigned a "code” which contains the location in time and space and the value of the measured energy. In this way, each Watt is monitored permanently and its traceability in time and space along with the value evolution is also known. The encryption eliminates any risk that the same Watt of energy is encrypted several times. The blockchain 6 is responsible to assign each generated power encrypted Watt a certain quantity of cryptocurrency according to the values on the energy exchange and the rate of exchange of the respective cryptocurrency, to which it is connected through a communication aggregator 4.

The blockchain 6 is responsible for the safe working of the system against possible fraud. It states that the final user 9 bought a certain quantity of green energy.

The system also consists of an energy transformer station 7 provided with a hardware 3, another hardware 3 being connected to the national energy grid 8. Another hardware 3 is connected to the final beneficiary 9 of the energy generated by the photovoltaic panels 2, which, in our case, is a supermarket.

The system also consists of an artificial intelligence 10 which identifies the need of the final beneficiary 9 and measures the energy generated by the photovoltaic panels 2, and also a trading platform 11 which effectively sells and buys energy capitalizing it, both the artificial intelligence 10 and the trading platform 11 being in the cloud 5.

All the communications in the system are managed by the communication aggregator 4 which is connected to all the components of the system outside the cloud 5.

Due to its construction, the system processes, stores, disseminates and analyses the solar signal received by the photovoltaic panels 2 and the information coming from these.

In general, it is difficult to evaluate the efficiency of the photovoltaic panels because it depends on their power, on their age, on how damaged they are and also on the climate conditions they are working in. Furthermore, the efficiency of the photovoltaic panels depends on the maintenance services.

The system can work both by connection to the national network and with batteries.