The idea...

The monitoring of solar plants should...

• work permanently and fully automated
• calculate standardized key figures
• detect system failures and malfunctions as quickly and as precisely as possible
• be as cost efficient as possible
• offer optimal support to service and maintenance activities
• not only analyze the solar circuit, but all system parts that are relevant for the solar plant
• adapt to the available measurement equipment

What are the impacts detected late or undetected at all?

• unnecessarily reduced energy losses
• reduced economic peformance, especially for ESCo (contracting) projects
• repairs become more expensive
• angry customers
• consequential damages due to delayed repair of a failure
• increased CO₂ emissions, unnecessary use of fossil fuels

What was the primary motivation to start the project IP-Solar?

• At the moment, the time spent for ongoing monitoring of solar plants by expert staff is unacceptably high. IP-Solar will minimize this time and effort: the diagnostics run in the background, remaining quiet as long as the plant operation shows no problems. In the case a fault occurs, this malfunction can be fixed more quickly based on the detailed information provided about the failure.
• Higher energy yields due to quicker response to a detected problem
• IP-Solar improves the economic perfomance of energy service models

Financial support

This project is supported by the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund and is carried out as part of the “Energy of the Future” programme. Project number: 815747