Abstract
In this research design and implementation of solar photo voltaic cell is done for base transceiver system (BTS) of telecom cellular networks in remote areas of Pakistan, to accomplish this task investigation is done regarding the present alternate power source of base transceiver system (BTS) that is the generator sets used as a stand-by, prime and t-prime source. This research will examine that generator sets fuel consumption and maintenance cost is considerably high and the cellular company has to pay a lot to keep a site on air and to overcome the connectivity issues.To resolve these issues this research is aimed to implement solar technology on BTS, for this purpose exploration is done regarding BTS rectifier system and suggested to use power on distribution systems 16 (PODS 16), latest technology evolution (LTE) based instead of the simple BTS rectifier, this new rectifier is intelligent and has redundant ways to overcome power issues as it has the capability to work directly on solar panel equipments and it requires DC supply. Other important factor is that solar panel recharge batteries for power backup and to keep the site on air during night time. Different cost comparison of solar and generator sets have been done by taking real data of different remote areas sites and in the end it is concluded that solar is the alternate costless, environmental friendly source of energy for BTS and can be implemented both for off-grid and on-grid systems.
Highlights
Power sector in Pakistan is using limited and indirect sources of energy,power load shedding in telecommunication companies has considerably affected network performances and a user faces problems of connectivity, to resolve these type of connectivity issues and to keep the site on air other renewable source of energy like solar is added to the base transceiver system (BTS) site, with the addition of Power on Distribution Systems (PODS16) rectifiers
During non availability of utility power currently genset technology is used for running BTS system.In remote ares at least one BTS is installed in each cell which is hexagon shaped.these cells combines and form of a cluster.A cluster contains more than one BTS which is linked to a Hub site
This research is composed of quantitative analysis which contain cost analysis for fuel consumption of gensets, cost analysis for replacing solar system, power calculation required for BTS, solar panel power generation and batteries play back period
Summary
Power sector in Pakistan is using limited and indirect sources of energy,power load shedding in telecommunication companies has considerably affected network performances and a user faces problems of connectivity, to resolve these type of connectivity issues and to keep the site on air other renewable source of energy like solar is added to the BTS site, with the addition of Power on Distribution Systems (PODS16) rectifiers. [3] done a research and he realized that other sources of energy might discharge out if they are used in tremendous amounts like coal, gas and oil, whereas the direct source of energy like wind, water, sun are renewable sources and might not be limited as they are unlimited in contrast to coal, gas and oil that are limited [5], so there is a casual that these resources might not be available after a certain amount of time period [6] or these resources might run out due to its so much use.Most of the areas in our country are directly linked with solar radiations as sunlight or sun shines for about 2000-3500 hours per annum. Our province Baluchistan that has the largest square feet area
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