Patent ID: 11900247
Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A system for solar irradiation prediction, the system comprising:
a camera positioned to capture a sequence of images of a sky;
an image processor configured to receive the images and predict the solar irradiation from sequential input of the images to a machine-learned neural network, the machine-learned neural network having a convolutional layer concatenated with a following recurrent layer; and
a controller configured to control supply of energy from a solar plant and a back-up power source based on the predicted solar irradiation,
wherein the image processor is configured to predict the solar irradiation as a list of values for different times in a future, the image processor configured to weight the values of the list based on a cloud speed.