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Case Study - SolarPulseTM solves the problem of managing distributed solar sites

We have considered a real example of a large

organization with multiple o�ces spread across

the country. The company has recently invested

in rooftop solar installations across its o�ces in

India. It currently has 10 sites with rooftop solar

A large number of companies today are investing

in solar photovoltaics to meet their annual

energy requirements by installing rooftop solar

panels at their o�ce locations. This helps them

to reduce their energy bills besides providing a

source of clean and sustainable energy. The

number of such rooftop solar installations have

increased manifold in recent years. This makes

monitoring and management of these assets a

challenging and costly a�air for the company.

One such company, with distributed solar assets,

contracted MachinePulseTM to provide a solution

capable of monitoring all its solar sites on a

single platform.

In this case study, we have provided a qualitative

analysis of the benefits of using SolarPulseTM for

monitoring of distributed solar sites. We have

assessed the impact and advantage of

SolarPulseTM in terms of costs, e�ciency and

ease of access.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

INTRODUCTIONinstallations each with an average capacity of 80

kW. The company plans to expand the number of

solar installations to 50 in the coming years. The

total capacity of all the locations, after full

expansion, will therefore stand at 4 MW.

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All the 10 solar sites of the company are now

monitored using a single solution (SolarPulseTM)

from a single location, thus increasing the

e�ciency of plant supervision.

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SolarPulseTM displays the global view of all the

sites of the company along with the site’s

name and KPIs such as PR and power

generation units.

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It ensures uniform reporting across sites and

provides MIS for senior management.

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• All aspects of the solar installations across the

company's solar portfolio are monitored in real

time using SolarPulseTM.

Key metrics such as performance and yield can

be obtained easily through any web browser or

mobile device from anywhere in the world,

without need for any additional software.

• It supports all standard inverters, energy

meters and environmental sensors. It also has

the capability to support all established

protocols of data collection and reporting.

The quality and e�ectiveness of the monitoring

solution greatly enhances the productivity of

solar PV plants. The company, having no

previous experience in solar power, found it

di�cult to e�ciently manage its vast portfolio

of sites. The organization was using an onsite

local SCADA for monitoring of their rooftop

assets. This process was tedious and time

consuming which had to be carried out on a daily

basis. Thus, the costs involved in monitoring and

servicing the solar installations across its various

locations were very high.

Also, the di�erent solar installations had

equipment from di�erent OEM's which meant

that these devices followed di�erent data

collection and reporting protocols. As a result,

the company had to invest in customized

software for each site.

PROBLEM STATEMENT

MachinePulseTM provided the company with its

flagship remote PV monitoring solution -

SolarPulseTM. It is an integrated, OEM

independent solution for the centralized

management of geographically distributed solar

plants.

SOLUTION


ADVANTAGES AND BENEFITS

• SolarPulseTM provides the ability to demarcate

areas of responsibility and access. Individual

login and access permissions can be set across

the portfolio of solar installations.

• Access rights can be assigned across the

di�erent solar sites and their alarms.

• The geographical display of plant locations and

status constantly gives plant owners and

operators a concise picture of the status of all

plants assigned to their user account.

• This helps to assign roles and responsibilities

which ensures e�ective management of the

distributed solar sites.

• The cost of deploying SolarPulseTM for

monitoring of the complete solar portfolio is

more economical than having individual

monitoring software at each site.• No need to set up an operational team at each

site for maintenance of solar installations.• Without SolarPulseTM, physical checking of the

panels and inverters would be required at each

site. The time involved in this process is

approximately 2 hours per day per site. Thus,

for the 10 solar sites, it amounts to savings of

• With SolarPulseTM, technicians are deployed on

the site only when a fault or failure is detected.

SolarPulseTM has thus helped to drastically

reduce the cost of monitoring and maintenance

of the solar sites.

• SolarPulseTM gives the portfolio owner the

capability to compare various parameters

across the sites such as performance ratio,

irradiance, power generation etc. This helps to

easily identify underperforming sites.

• The company can also benchmark the sites

against the best performing site and

accordingly make decisions regarding servicing

and maintenance.

• It can also compare technological equipment

used across locations or benchmark the

di�erent EPC companies contracted to build

these sites. This will help the company to

identify the best performing EPC contractors

and equipments for its future projects.

Role based access

Performance Benchmarking across portfolio

Reduced Costs

7,300 man hours per year. For the full portfolio

of 50 sites, after expansion is completed, this

number will stand at 36,650 man hours.



SolarPulseTM has played a significant role in

unifying the command centre and providing a

centralized solar monitoring solution for the

company. The ability of the client to manage a

large number of distributed solar installations

from a single monitoring platform has increased

the overall performance of its solar sites. It has

also helped to reduce operational costs and

increase power generation.

CONCLUSION

Alarms and Notifications

• The alarms and notifications help operators to

always remain alert to any faults and failures.

• These can be customized to suit the client's

needs, which can also be delivered via either

SMS or Email to respective O&M team based at

di�erent locations.

• It thereby allows operators to immediately

deploy personnel to the relevant site and take

corrective action.

Number of Sites

50 36,500

Man-hours savedper year

80kW

Average capacityper site

Total capacity

4MW

Monitoring Solution( SolarPulseTM)

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SolarPulse solves the problem of managing distributed solar sites

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