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…Beyond Monitoring

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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

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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.

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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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• 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

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• 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.

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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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The only software platform in the PV industry with built-in intelligence, capable of estimating

fast and accurately production deviations.

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www.SolarEye.eu

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