TinyTripleNet: A lightweight architecture for solar photo voltaic fault detection optimized for edge tensor processing unit hardware deployment
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Electric Power Systems Research, Volume 252
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The growing adoption of solar energy underscores the need for efficient and accurate fault detection in photovoltaic (PV) systems to minimize energy loss and maintenance overhead. This study introduces TinyTripleNet, a lightweight convolutional neural network optimized for real-time solar panel fault classification on edge devices. The model integrates three convolutional layers with Residual and Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) blocks to enhance feature extraction while maintaining a compact size of only 0.9 million parameters. TinyTripleNet is trained using binary cross-entropy loss and the Adam optimizer on a thermographic PV dataset, achieving class-wise accuracies of 96.71 % (2-class), 92.16 % (8-class), 90.25 % (11-class), and 93.07 % (12-class). It also achieved a mean Average Precision (mAP) of 92.4 % on the 12-class dataset. Compared to 29 baseline models, including VGG16, ResNet50, and MobileNet, TinyTripleNet demonstrated a 75 % reduction in inference time and over 80 % savings in memory usage, with an inference latency of 4.8 ms/image on the Coral Edge TPU and a runtime memory footprint of 1.7 MB. These results position TinyTripleNet as a robust solution for drone-based PV fault detection, offering a practical trade-off between accuracy, model size, and real-time deployment efficiency.Description
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Himavarshini, K, Raja B, R, Reddy, Y R M, Pallakonda, A, Raj, R D A, Pouresmaeil, E & Aghaei, J 2026, 'TinyTripleNet: A lightweight architecture for solar photo voltaic fault detection optimized for edge tensor processing unit hardware deployment', Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 252, 112451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2025.112451