Efficient management is much more than just control. It is a vital component of any renewable energy project, whether the installation is a small domestic venture, or part of a large-scale renewable energy development. Complete system monitoring and analysis is important for maintaining earnings performance at maximum levels, and promptly detecting status changes.
The eTERN@λ Platform is an intelligent system that acts as a virtual energy assistant, proactively monitoring and automatically detecting potential faults in PV plants with high accuracy – creating a synergy between the plant owner and the PV professionals.
Intelligent Analytics
eTERN@λ is the only system with built-in intelligence, based on state of the art technologies, capable of estimating, fast and accurately, each plant’s expected production under certain climate conditions.
Early Detection
Automatically determining deviations from the expected production with high accuracy, eTERN@λ detects potential DC disturbances, facilitating maximization of the plant’s yield and increase of ROI.
Minimizing Response Times
Faults at the AC side including fuses and other overcurrent protection devices can be spotted instantly in a graphical diagram depicting the plant’s structure. Hence, eTERN@λ saves time on fault analysis at the office and fault recovery in the field, resulting in cost savings from better scheduling of repairs and reduction of unnecessary visits.
Quantification of Power Loss
Power loss from either AC Faults or DC disturbances is quantified with high accuracy, providing valuable information that could be used for statistical analysis and insurance claims.
Decision Support
Information that otherwise you could not even imagine is revealed. Potential fault conditions are discovered. Knowledge is created regarding what each part of the installation is capable of producing, at a fine grained level, under each plant’s specific microclimate. Having this wealth of knowledge allows PV professionals to make informed decisions about necessary corrective actions with respect to unexpected production decrease or failures.
The eTERN@λ Platform is a high-performance Web 2.0 platform that is provided over the cloud. It is compatible with third party data loggers / sensors (installed in the field), as well as more than 60 brands of inverters. Thus, the eTERN@λ Platform can be applied to any present and future PV installations. No extra equipment is required when compatible data logger and sensors are already installed! Data connection (e.g. ADSL or GPRS/3G) is required at each PV installation for sending information to the eTERN@λ Platform servers.