The main objective of this work is to study the state of the art of current techniques and algorithms for improving the efficiency of isolated solar photovoltaic systems. Additionally, a study will be conducted regarding the feasibility of applying rough sets (RS) for the practical identification of a minimum set of significant input variables (condition attributes) which determine the value of the output variables (decision attributes) in solar photovoltaic systems. Several experiments were carried out using a TS97 solar photovoltaic system donated by T-Solar for research purposes. The developed system was used to capture the values of input variables in different periods of time and climatic conditions (obtained through a MeteoGalicia monitoring station). The experimental prototype implemented was composed of a solar photovoltaic panel, a resistive load to dissipate the energy generated by the panel, a MPPT (Maximum Power Point Tracking) placed between the panel and the charge, a data logger equipped with a RTC (Real-Time Clock) and several sensors for measuring the values of physical and electrical variables of the system. Data captured was stored in a 2GB solid state card using a plain text format in order to facilitate later study and analysis using RS.