…Beyond Monitoring
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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
Providing role-based interfaces
for plant owners and PV
professionals, creating a synergy
towards increased efficiency,
reliability and higher returns.
SolarEye Platform is:
 Vendor independent platform
 Compatible with multiple data loggers
 Provided as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
through annual subscriptions.
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Fault Decision Yield
Plant Info
Isolation Support Optimization
Data Energy
Analytics Fault Isolation
Acquisition
 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
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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.
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 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
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Owner/investor
EPC/O&M
• EPC/O&M increases operational efficiency!
• Owner/investor increases ROI!
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• 400 KW After a lightning storm,
• Fixed structure system 4 fuses at the AC side and 10
• 15KW & 17KW tri-phase inverters failed
inverters
Benefits
Message to O&M with potential fuses Real-time notification, faster than any
and inverters faults is sent after 5 another monitoring system.
minutes
Fuses replaced in hours enabling nine Faster recovery resulting in 2 more days
inverters to recover and one inverter to of production for 9 x 17KW inverters =
be replaced in 2 days 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
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• 100 KW
33.3 KW distribution board fuse
• Fixed structure system
failure with
• 9 X 11KW single phase
3 out of 9 inverters going off-line
inverters
• 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
Fault Isolation
day => 200 kWh/day
O&M Faster Increased
saves fault Plant
time recovery Uptime
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Hot spot / tracker orientation fault/
shadow caused by non-permanent
obstacle (e.g. grass) resulting in a
• 3 MW constant 4% loss ≈ 700KWh per day
• Fixed structure system
• 300KW inverters
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.
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 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.
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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
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Start experiencing the new approach for monitoring and
management of PV installations to optimize their performance.
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with built-in intelligence, capable of estimating
fast and accurately production deviations.
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