METHOD FOR ROBUST WIRELESS MONITORING AND TRACKING OF SOLAR TRACKERS IN COMMERCIAL SOLAR POWER PLANTS

摘要

A method of wireless communication includes providing a plurality of first trackers and a plurality of second trackers. A subset of the first trackers and a subset of the second trackers are determined such that for each of the first trackers in the subset of the first trackers there exists a respective second tracker in the subset of the second trackers such that a distance between the first tracker and the second tracker is shorter than each distance between the second tracker and each of the other first trackers in the subset by more than a threshold distance. In a first time slot, data is wirelessly transmitted from each of the first trackers in the subset of the first trackers to the respective second tracker in the subset of the second trackers. The transmitting is performed using a same first frequency. In at least one subsequent time slot, the data is wirelessly transmitted from each of the second trackers in the subset of the second trackers to a final destination data collector.