SUN POWER SYSTEM

GEONICA introduces the Sun Power System, a turnkey integral solution, specifically designed for the remote monitoring and efficiency analysis of solar power plants, thermal or photovoltaic, in real-time, via Internet.

This advanced monitoring system allows you to determine whether your site is a good candidate to harvest sun power, as well as to carry out many other additional measurements.

Solar resource assessment is the first objective to be covered, in order to determine, during a certain time, the site conditions regarding the avilable solar energy. So the SunPower System has been designed for allowing the measurement of all solar radiation parameters, such as globlal, direct and diffuse radiation, by means of highly sensitive pyranometers and pyrheliometers supported by very precise solar trackers.

The SunPower System has been designed around the Remote Data Acquisition and Transmission Unit, Model METEODATA-2000/3000C Series, working as a data logger, PLC and RTU device, combined with a dedicated management software package.

Besides the measurement of the solar radiation, the METEODATA unit allows the connection of other additional meteorological sensors. For instance, a wind sensor and a hail detector will offer valuable information for repositioning solar panels, in order to protect them in case of gusts of wind or severe thunderstorms with hail precipitation.

SunPower System offers remote monitoring for retrieving data or reporting site conditions via GPRS/CDMA cellular network, radio link, satellite, Ethernet, etc., as well as via INTERNET by means of the WEBTRANS Platform optional service offered by GEONICA (Web Posting).

Once the solar plant is in operation, other three fundamental issues are covered by the SunPower System:

Real-time monitoring of all the main or critical plant parameters. This will provide the possibility of a quick identification of failed components or abnormal operation conditions of the plant.

An efficient remote alarm managent procedure by means of the urgent transmission of SMS alert messages to cellular phones and emails to central computers, in order to minimize the troubleshooting efforts and to prevent damages in key plant components.

On-line and Off-line analysis of the plant efficiency, in order to know the overall performance of the thermal or photovoltaic installation.

These three issues will allow to enlarge the operative life of the plant and, at the same time, to ensure the maximum investment profitability.