IV DAQ & Analytics Portal

“If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.” - Lord Kelvin

Optimize DC side performance, design & forecasting

The IV DAQ and Analytics Portal is a comprehensive monitoring & analysis solution that enables revolutionary monitoring, diagnostics, and forecasting of DC-side PV plant performance. The IV DAQ is a cable-free, in situ IV curve tracer allowing unprecedented high-frequency data collection for PV characterization. The Analytics Portal integrates IV DAQ and other sensor data, providing comprehensive analysis and actionable insights without the high labour cost and downtime of alternatives.

IV DAQ

Deep Insights

Panel IV curve, temperature, voltage, string current, Pmp, Pop plotted over any timeframe.

In-Situ
Continuous, real-time IV Curve tracing eliminates need for handheld measurements.

No Downtime

Measurements taken during operation with no revenue lost from string or inverter downtime.

Analytics Portal

Plug & Play

Simple set up requires no calibration, and no in-field wiring for power or communication.

Correlate & Predict

Compare multiple panels at once. Plot performance against paired sensors, like irradiance sensors.

High Frequency

Conduct your panel IV sweeps in alignment with other sensors or as often as once per minute.

Benefits brought to the entire solar eco-system

  • Developers & IPPs

    • Use IV DAQs and your meteorological sensors to measure and quantify site-specific performance drivers such as spectral effects, bifacial boost, shading impacts, mismatch, etc.

    • Reduce your performance uncertainty to improve generation forecast, LCOE estimation accuracy and bankability

    • Quantify loss drivers like soiling, vegetation, mismatch, PID to better value your O&M expenditures

    • Optimize future site design based on IV DAQ enabled analytics

  • Operations & Maintenance Service Providers

    • Complete in-field performance benchmarking prior to committing to contracts to ensure feasible performance ratio commitments

    • Optimize your service offerings by quantifying costs and benefits of scheduled & ad hoc services

    • Track degradation and DC side PV field health remotely and in real time

  • Independent Engineers & Service Providers

    • Quickly generate robust data sets to validate performance models and variables

    • Assess loss drivers including temperature losses, mismatch, and degradation to understand their impacts on revenue

    • Measure and quantify the performance deviations between project design and as-built

  • Lending & Insurance Providers

    • Improve your lending or underwriting portfolio risk profile by lending based on higher accuracy forecasts with lower margins of error

    • Quickly generate robust data sets to quantify the performance and reliability of new technologies and advances

  • Panel Manufacturers, R&D & Academia

    • Quickly correlate performance of new cell module technologies and designs with a wide-range of real world conditions

    • Perform in depth analysis of PV performance drivers to derive unprecedented insights

    • Monitor burn-in and degradation processes in situ without needing costly, labour intensive repeated flash testing

Case studies: better data makes for better decisions