In the last decade, new solar photovoltaic (PV) cell technologies have emerged for grid-connected systems. However, automatic fault detection and accurate diagnostics for PV array systems are still challenging problems. Even with over-current protection devices (OCPD), ground fault detection interrupters (GFDI), and smart monitoring devices (SMDs) with...

Big data analytics uncover hidden patterns, unknown correlations, and other practical information that can be applied to make more accurate predictions and decisions. Current techniques rely on statistics and decision-tree algorithms in order to “mine” useful information from massive data sets that are largely dominated by irrelevant data...