SmartSolarGrid Deciding what to do with Solar Energy production

Solar energy has been subject of great development in the past years, which led to the concept of Solar Roads: photovoltaic panels along the highways and roads. SmartSolarGrid is the merge of Solar Roads with Smart Grids, a new electrical distribution grid with improved efficiency and control. The goal of this work is to develop a software tool that further improves the efficiency of the electricity produced by automatically deciding in real time its destination: i) store the energy, ii) sell it to the global national-wide electric company, iii) sell it to the local electric company, etc.. In addition, we developed a software tool for electric cars which gives its driver suggestions about what he can do with the remaining energy stored in the car batteries (e.g. sell if there’s enough for that) or where to charge up the battery (e.g. if there’s not enough to get to the destination).