by Shane Henson — April 13, 2012—GreenVolts Inc., a provider of the industry’s first and only complete and fully integrated solar system, is striving to make it even easier for companies to manage their solar energy through launching its solar energy management software for iPad and iPhone mobile devices.
The new ISIS Mobile is a natural extension of the company’s Internet-based ISIS energy management software and enables unprecedented management capabilities for GreenVolts’ solar systems ranging from smaller, distributed installations to large, centralized, utility scale solar plants, the company says.
ISIS is the first true solar information network, where every module, motor, tracker, and inverter is part of a comprehensive network architecture that includes GPS and Wi-Fi. As a secure, cloud-based application, ISIS eliminates the need for users to maintain servers, back-up, disaster recovery, or software updates. Scalability is virtually infinite, software and data maintenance reduced to zero, and access is ubiquitous for the users.
With ISIS Mobile, automated alerts, monitoring, diagnostics and control are now available on small, light, easy-to-use, and inexpensive mobile devices. Managers and operators that are on the go have quicker response time and greater productivity than ever before, says GreenVolts.
Key features of ISIS include:
- Integrated design: Developed as a core function within the GreenVolts CPV system, ISIS provides sophisticated, in-depth, and high resolution monitoring, reporting, and management capabilities that are fully mapped across the entire system architecture. Advanced algorithms that optimize the GreenVolts system have been built into ISIS. Generic third-party performance monitoring solutions do not and cannot provide these capabilities, says the company.
- Information-rich: Integrated intelligence and control for every 4 kW of the system provides precision and inspection that is reportedly not possible with centralized designs. ISIS provides overall system performance in the site portfolio view, and allows drill-down into a specific site, array, individual motor or string. The performance history of each active component and its original factory test data are archived together and can be cross-referenced to analyze trends over time. In addition to system performance, ISIS supplies live video of each site, weather and solar monitoring, asset management, and detailed maintenance logs.
- Secure and easy to use: The graphical interface is quick to learn and easy to use. ISIS automatically sends alerts if the system is not operating within customizable performance parameters. Customer-defined levels of access and authorization are password protected. Site data is maintained and backed up in a data warehouse and transmitted using secure protocols. Because of the hosted software model, no data synching is required and software updates are automatic, enabling plant managers to optimize operational decisions that simultaneously maximize yield and minimize costs.
- Information-rich: Integrated intelligence and control for every 4 kW of the system provides precision and inspection that is reportedly not possible with centralized designs. ISIS provides overall system performance in the site portfolio view, and allows drill-down into a specific site, array, individual motor or string. The performance history of each active component and its original factory test data are archived together and can be cross-referenced to analyze trends over time. In addition to system performance, ISIS supplies live video of each site, weather and solar monitoring, asset management, and detailed maintenance logs.
GreenVolts says its solar systems are ideal for a wide range of industries and customers. In areas with medium to high solar resource, GreenVolts delivers a low cost of energy that makes implementing solar compelling and economical for utilities, agriculture, commercial, industrial, and public-sector applications.
