Enabling Data Communication

over Solar PV cells

Advisor: Dr Abhijit Mitra

Arshan Zaman (2016136)

Shivam Singh(2016196)
● Need to move to renewable energy sources

● Mobile data consumption grew by nearly 63% and is expected to increase

7-folds between 2016-2021

● Off-the-shelf LED as Light Source

Organic Solar Panel as Photodetector

● Uses On-Off keying modulation scheme

Proposed Subsystems for Receiver circuit

Comparator Level Shifter (Diode Voltage

Clamper) Follower
 Results

Output at 50 kHz Output at 75 kHz

 Results

Output at 150 kHz

Future Work

● Design high frequency transmitter

○ Design a driver circuit with new 1W LEDs
○ Achieve high frequencies (> 300 kHz, achieved till 100 kHz with
existing source)
○ Modulate multiple LEDs for better illumination on solar cell
Setup Block Diagram
 The Source

● 3 White LED’s(1 W each)

● Driven by LED driver circuit (6 V supply)
LED Driver Circuit
The Setup
Block Diagram
Output at 100 kHz
Output at 250 kHz
Output at 500 kHz
Output at 900 kHz
Future work
● Transmitter side
○ Source needs to be fabricated on PCB to fix it
○ Increase the transmission distance using optics
■ Aspheric lens
■ Convex lens

● Receiver side
○ Achieve higher speeds while deploying the organic cell
○ Better discretion between 1s and 0s at higher frequencies