Photovoltaic monitoring datalogger

Description

The PV-Monitor-M is an energy management device designed to monitor instantaneous self-consumption from photovoltaic installations. To this end, it comprises an inbuilt datalogger, web server with Embedded PowerStudio and a SCADA application.

The device provides real-time information on photovoltaic production, energy savings and consumption in a building, home, company, etc. , as well as storing historical data for periodic analysis.

It is also equipped with a MET probe to measure the PV module's solar radiation, plus its ambient and surface temperatures , the data obtained being used to calculate the installation's performance.

The PV-Monitor-M offers the following advantages:

• Detection of low performance ratio (yield index) in the PV installation
• Instantaneous energy balance of consumption compared to PV generation
• Self-consumption percentage calculation for the current month (solar fraction)
• General alarms in the PV installation to notify
• of any anomalous operation (e-mail alerts)
• Reduction in energy consumed from the electrical network
• Reduction in CO₂ emissions released into the atmosphere.

Applications

• Photovoltaic installations for self-consumption (with or without injection into the electricity grid)
• Remote energy balance monitoring and recording system (with or without injection into the electricity grid).

Mechanical characteristics