Stage of Innovation: Prototype (You have a working physical product)

Problem: Solar Panels are generally inefficient as power sources; partly due to their material composition, and largely due to varying positions of the sun (changing angles of incident sunlight/solar energy) throughout the day, which in turn leads to varying power output. As a matter of fact, stationary Solar Panels can only give maximum output for about 30 minutes each day. i.e When the sun is directly overhead the panel. This product aims at achieving max power output all through the span of useful daylight each day, using low cost technology; ergo, increasing the reliability and efficiency (+40%) of Solar Power Generation, while reducing the economical cost of installing Solar Facilities as lesser rating and lesser number of panels are required to produce the same output as their innumerable stationary counterparts.

Unique Selling Point: The Solar tracking Sensors in the market as of present day are over 6000% more expensive than the proposed low-cost technology. The sensors currently in use apply the concept of polarization of light, by passing sunlight through tiny slits and depending on very expensive micro photo-votaic cells to measure the direction of incident light. This method is extremely inefficient in terms of cost and reliability, as it is highly susceptible to external noise/disturbance from secondary light sources. The proposed solution however, utilizes simple and low cost light Sensors arranged in a mathematically predetermined formation to detect the direction of the sun at any given period of the day. The sensor can aslo be modified to give dual axis data (x and y axis) or single axis data (x axis). Furthermore, in the event of external noise, the sensor only responds to the light source with the highest intensity, which in most cases during the day, is the sun.