Patent ID: 8502129

Claim:
An integrated remotely controlled photovoltaic system, comprising: a central backend server management system configured to facilitate management of two or more solar arrays at a remote site from a client device connected over a public wide area network (WAN), which encompasses networks including the Internet; an integrated electronics housing containing multiple circuits for a first PhotoVoltaic (PV) solar array at the remote site, where the multiple circuits cohesively exist in the integrated electronics housing and actually perform better because of the interconnectivity; one or more Alternating Current (AC) inverter circuits within the integrated electronics housing with switching devices that generate a three-phase AC voltage supplied to a utility power grid interface transformer; one or more motion control circuits within the integrated electronics housing configured to move the PV cells of the first solar array throughout the day to angular coordinates resulting from a solar tracking algorithm feeding the motion control circuits; a communication bus within the integrated electronics housing connecting to the motion control circuits and the inverter circuits to facilitate communications of information including parameters of power being generated by the inverter circuits between the motion control circuits and the AC inverter circuits to fine tune an AC power generated out of the two axis tracker mechanism; and communication circuitry within the integrated electronics housing configured to establish secure communications over the WAN with the central backend server management system, where the motion control circuits and AC inverter circuits also pass information over the communication bus to the communication circuitry, and where the integrated electronics housing acts as the local system control point for the first solar array.