Utilities Tech Outlook Weekly Brief
Be first to read the latest tech news, Industry Leader's Insights, and CIO interviews of medium and large enterprises exclusively from Utilities Tech Outlook
The key to success is to remove complex hardware integration, certification, and security concerns, allowing your businesses to access operational data in your cloud infrastructure and integrate it with your IT systems.
Fremont, CA: Solar is the world's fastest-growing renewable energy source, with global capacity increasing by an average of 40 percent per year. Many energy companies are expanding their offerings to include solar, which is one of the most energy-efficient and profitable renewable energy sources on the market.
Solar energy companies now have more options than ever before for making the most of their equipment. Using IoT to harness the power of digital transformation can help to solve common problems associated with complex energy grids and make it much easier to manage panels and energy output. Installing an IoT system will help solar energy companies meet customer demands and improve overall efficiency. It is no longer a question of whether or not to attempt IoT digital transformation but rather of how to do so successfully.
Simple and Integrated Systems are the Future of IoT in Solar Energy
While there are some challenges, they do not have to be crippling for solar companies. Many of these issues can be solved with little effort and investment by utilizing IoT in solar energy. The key to success is to remove complex hardware integration, certification, and security concerns, allowing your businesses to access operational data in your cloud infrastructure and integrate it with your IT systems. You will be capable of securely extracting, orchestrating, as well as acting on data from your edge assets to the cloud.
The main advantage of using IoT in solar energy is that you can see exactly what's going on with all of your assets from a single central control panel. By connecting your devices to a cloud network, you can pinpoint the source of the problem and dispatch a technician to resolve it before it disrupts your entire system. For example, you may notice that your network is operating normally, but one of your devices is malfunctioning. It would be difficult to determine whether the problem was network- or hardware-related without IoT. The Internet of Things (IoT) provides the intelligence for you to identify issues in real-time as they occur, allowing you to quickly locate and resolve the source.
Your system will be less vulnerable to outages, productivity issues, and potentially costly security breaches if you use IoT. You can manage the world's largest solar grids, even with thousands of individual devices connected to your network, by installing an all-in-one edge-to-cloud IoT solution to connect your solar assets.
In addition to providing real-time alerts to businesses, leveraging IoT in solar energy can lead to improvements in power quality and performance by collecting historical data for modeling. This increases the efficiency of energy production in terms of both cost and logistics.
Companies can install additional OEM equipment to the solar panels, such as Battery Energy Storage Systems, to adapt to solar production and deliver stored energy at peak times while tracking any data that the company requires to enable new services. On the network side, cellular connectivity in a solar energy array enables you to support 2G or LPWA LTE-M networks for more reliable connections with low-power requirements.
When it comes to your smart grid, power metering can improve the efficiency of your system in a variety of ways. For maximum efficiency, you can place the edge device in a grid asset in front of the solar inverter.
