Creating Sustainable Photovoltaics for Smart Cities

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Advantages and disadvantages of renewable energy: a review of the scientific literature

“…The main advantages of photovoltaic energy are that it is an available, accessible, clean, and abundant source (Khan et al, 2022;Brenner & Adamovic, 2019;Pardal et al, 2019;Nascimento, 2018). These advantages mean that this type of energy is already ready to be used, so there is no need to carry out any process to generate it, as is the case with biomass, which means there are no supply costs.…”

Appearance Design Method of Smart Street Lamp Based on Kansei Engineering

“…e system is based on ATmegal6 single-chip microcomputer, which realizes the detection of the voltage and current of new energy photovoltaic cells and batteries, the control of battery charging and LED drive circuits, and the remote communication function, which can control or detect each street light; it is convenient for managers to control and maintain the street lights. Literature [9] designed an intelligent street lamp controller for the problem that the domestic intelligent street lamp controller in the market is not highly intelligent and cannot effectively protect the battery.…”