Monitoring Systems
Watching your investment
Solar Nation installs investment grade monitoring systems that meter the energy output of your solar-electric system, keep track of overall system performance, and provide alert notification if your system begins to perform abnormally, allowing you to meet renewable energy reporting requirements and get the highest possible return on your investment.
System management made easy
A Solar Nation installed monitoring system makes managing solar easy, providing access to performance data over the web, continuously checking system performance, and providing alert notification if there is a system event or if the system begins to underperform.
- System performance at a glance, including AC/DC production and carbon offset data
- Environmental data, such as wind speed, air temperature, module temperature
- Remote web-based system management
- Alert notifications regarding system events or underperformance
Each Solar Nation installed monitoring system is configured using sophisticated algorithms that predict system performance based on detailed final engineering. By comparing predicted performance with actual performance, the monitoring system automatically senses system events, such as a component failure, or if the system and system subcomponents are not performing optimally, and sends out alert notifications. The web interface then provides detailed information to help identify the problem and formulate an appropriate response.
Monitoring, service, and maintenance outsourcing made easy
A Solar Nation installed monitoring system makes it easy to outsource operation, service, and maintenance. Once your monitoring system is installed and configured, a service and maintenance organization can have access to your system’s performance data and alerts and can easily track the system remotely.
A Solar Nation installed monitoring system in combination with a Solar Nation Service and Maintenance Agreement will provide years of continuous trouble-free optimal performance
When combined with a Solar Nation Service and Maintenance Agreement, your Solar Nation installed monitoring system will allow you to outsource almost all tasks associated with your solar-electric system. Solar Nation’s Service and Maintenance Agreements are typically the best answer for organizations that do not have an energy manager. Solar Nation will handle almost all operations, monitoring, service, maintenance, and reporting. And in the unlikely event that there is ever a problem with your solar-electric system, Solar Nation’s operations center will initiate prompt technical assistance to solve the problem, ordinarily without additional cost or involvement, and without delay.
Each Solar Nation installed monitoring system provides the industry-leading value and performance and comes complete with industry-leading service and support
- On-site field services
- On-site training
- In-house customer support
- Centralized hardware architecture for increased reliability
- Flexible firmware configuration
- Resource assessment required for detailed performance analysis
- DC string level monitoring
- DC sub-array level monitoring
- Inverter direct monitoring
- Revenue grade metering, to meet renewable energy credit reporting requirements
- Synchronous data set time stamping for detailed performance troubleshooting
- Built-in temperature Compensation
- Automatic re-calibration after each measurement
- Stainless steel datalogger casing to protect against the environment and electromagnetic interference
- Remote firmware updates
- Battery backup
- Redundant onsite data storage
- Scalable and flexible site configuration
- Camera view
- Portfolio view
- Project view
- Data download
- Web-based raw data inspector
- Historical trends
- Performance plots
- Performance analysis models
- Expected vs. Actual performance Reports
- Hybrid system integration
- Alarm priority settings
- Alarm threshold configuration
- Alarm analysis and annotation
- Configurable data access based on user profile/job function
- Public displays/kiosk views
- Periodic, free web portal updates
- Integration with building management systems
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