The PV Technology Laboratory of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and FOSS Research Centre for Sustainable Energy of the University of Cyprus, is participating in a transnational network for the implementation of a research project on fault detection in photovoltaics by utilising unmanned aerial vehicles (acronym: “AID4PV”).
AID4PV aims to face the main challenges of the photovoltaic (PV) industry and to provide an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platform for decision-making and modular approach to support PV plant diagnostics and minimise the time needed to diagnose and repair resulting in a reduction in operation and maintenance costs, thus rendering the technology more competitive for enhanced penetration in the global electricity mix.
AID4PV is scheduled to run for 30 months and is coordinated by the Spanish company TSK Information Technologies Division. Partners are the Circuits, Sensors and Renewable Energy Sources (CSRES) Laboratory and Research Team of Spatial Informatics (SenseLab) of the Technical University of Crete (TUC) and the Photovoltaic Technology Laboratory of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and FOSS Research Centre for Sustainable Energy of the University of Cyprus (UCY).
