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How IoT Sensors Predict Solar Panel Hotspots Before Fires
Episode 80 of Internet of Things with Fexingo dives into a critical application for the booming solar energy sector: using IoT thermal sensors to detect and predict hotspot formation on photovoltaic panels before they lead to fires or permanent damage. Lucas and Luna examine a real incident at a 50-megawatt solar farm in California where a single hotspot cascaded into a three-acre brush fire. They walk through how arrays of low-cost infrared thermopile sensors, combined with edge-based machine learning, can monitor temperature gradients across thousands of panels in real time. The hosts…
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