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SolarEye Platform is an innovative web based platform for monitoring solar photovoltaic installations. It proactively monitors and automatically detects potential faults in PV plants of any size with high accuracy. SolarEye Platform also provides a complete solution through a rich set of diagnostic tools, and metrics. It is a vendor independent system, allowing multiple pv plants to be monitored through a single interface. Being compatible with the majority of inverter manufacturers and also with SMA WebBox and Solar-Log data loggers enables seamless migration without further costs. Free trial is provided for 3 months in order to experience yourselves the new approach in monitoring and management of solar PV installations. Register now at www.SolarEye.eu
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© Neuron Energy Solutions 2012
…Beyond Monitoring
© Neuron Energy Solutions 2012
SolarEye Platform is: Vendor independent platform Compatible with multiple data loggers Provided as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
through annual subscriptions.
Providing role-based interfaces for plant owners and PV professionals, creating a synergy towards increased efficiency, reliability and higher returns.
SolarEye Platform is an innovative Web 2.0 system:
Acting as a “virtual energy assistant”
Proactively monitoring and automatically detecting potential faults in PV plants with high accuracy
Providing a rich set of diagnostic tools, and metrics
© Neuron Energy Solutions 2012
SolarEye Platform revolutionizes monitoring and management of PV installations, providing a decision support system, leveraging advanced artificial intelligence models for:
Fastest fault isolation
Minimizing fault recovery response time
Accurate estimation of expected power and energy loss
Reduction of maintenance costs
Yield optimization
Plant Info
Data
Acquisition
Fault
Isolation
Yield
Optimization
Decision Support
Fault Isolation Energy
Analytics
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SolarEye Platform moves beyond presentation of data to provide
insights of PV installations through real-time energy analytics:
Energy Estimation: SolarEye Platform is capable of estimating in real-time with high accuracy, each
inverter's expected production under certain climate conditions.
Fault Isolation: Several types of faults can be detected automatically in real time with high
accuracy, without requiring any user-defined thresholds.
Quantification of power loss: Energy lost due to failures or other disturbances is calculated. This
information could be used for insurance claims.
Statistics for plant components and failures.
Performance metrics coupled with rich diagnostic tools reveal plant status condition.
© Neuron Energy Solutions 2012
Spotting faults on AC side components and substation components: ◦ Grid faults leveraging information from feeder relay protection
devices. ◦ Substation component failures such as transformer, feeder relay,
UPS, etc. ◦ Overcurrent protection device faults. ◦ Data acquisition modules. ◦ Data Communication
Early Detection of potential DC disturbances due to: ◦ String failures ◦ Hot spots ◦ Tracker orientation loss ◦ Shadows ◦ Dust/soiling detection
PV Module degradation: Identification of abnormal PV modules
degradation
© Neuron Energy Solutions 2012
• EPC/O&M increases operational efficiency! • Owner/investor increases ROI!
EPC/O&M
Owner/investor
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• 400 KW • Fixed structure system • 15KW & 17KW tri-phase
inverters
After a lightning storm, 4 fuses at the AC side and 10
inverters failed
Benefits
Message to O&M with potential fuses and inverters faults is sent after 5 minutes
Real-time notification, faster than any another monitoring system.
Fuses replaced in hours enabling nine inverters to recover and one inverter to be replaced in 2 days
Faster recovery resulting in 2 more days of production for 9 x 17KW inverters = 990 kWh x 0,25 € = 247,5 €
Losses estimated for insurance claim Based on average data the insurance company would compensate for 80 kWh/day/inverter, while the estimated production is 110 kWh/day/inverter
© Neuron Energy Solutions 2012
• Message to integrator about the single fuse that needs to be replaced, allowing for a same day visit.
• Time spent at the plant: 15 min • Problem resolved in 2 hours instead of
requiring rescheduling in a following day => 200 kWh/day
O&M
saves
time
Faster
fault
recovery
Increased
Plant
Uptime
• 100 KW • Fixed structure system • 9 X 11KW single phase
inverters
33.3 KW distribution board fuse
failure with 3 out of 9 inverters going off-line
Fault Isolation
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• 3 MW • Fixed structure system • 300KW inverters
Hot spot / tracker orientation fault/ shadow caused by non-permanent obstacle (e.g. grass) resulting in a
constant 4% loss ≈ 700KWh per day
Dust/Soiling resulting in a constant loss up to 8% ≈ 1400KWh per day
Based on intelligent real-time energy analytics SolarEye Platform facilitates early detection of power outages.
© Neuron Energy Solutions 2012
SolarEye Platform can be used for installations of any size: ◦ Residential rooftops. ◦ Commercial power plants.
The architecture of SolarEye Platform enables compatibility with: ◦ The vast majority of inverter manufacturers. ◦ Major data acquisition equipment. ◦ New installations anywhere in the world and seamless
migration of already existing ones, which may not require any further equipment costs.
◦ New equipment that needs to be monitored. ◦ New services that that could be integrated.
© Neuron Energy Solutions 2012
Being vendor independent, it provides a unified platform for complete, real-time monitoring of
• all parameters
from all PV installations
simultaneously
through a single interface
© Neuron Energy Solutions 2012
The only software platform in the PV industry with built-in intelligence, capable of estimating
fast and accurately production deviations.
Find out more
www.SolarEye.eu
Start experiencing the new approach for monitoring and management of PV installations to optimize their performance.
Sign up for your 3 months free trial of up to 3 plants
www.SolarEye.eu / FreeTrial