Solar farms always want to optimize their utilization and production. To do this, two things are key: asset management and asset control. This needs accurate high-fidelity telemetry data and an edge computing infrastructure. Helin’s Polaris Smart Solar Solution is plug-and-play middleware that connects your solar farm to your asset and energy management systems. It puts you in charge of your solar farm at the lowest possible cost.
The telemetry data from your inverters, temperature and irradiation sensors and batteries is collected, structured, and unified. Common pre-configured interfaces for brands like SMA, Sungrow, Huawei and others are all covered (including Sunspec for Modbus RTU and Modbus TCP).
Our Solar Control Module enables curtailment in the inverters and changing battery setpoints. Your energy management system can control the solar farm in line with your energy strategy using the API. This allows you to protect your energy strategy.
The Polaris Smart Solar solution is equipped with the highest cyber security standards, including encryption and monitoring of pipelines, modules and data. Our Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) ensures continuous monitoring and renewal of asynchronous keys. The system health is being constantly monitored.
The complete solution is provided as a managed service, resulting in minimum overhead for you and the fastest time-to-value to maximize your solar impact. We will provide the edge devices that are configured for your system setup. We monitor the state of the infrastructure and our support is there to help you when you need it.
Polaris Smart Solar is a fully managed middleware solution. It is a scalable and secure bridge between your solar farm and asset & energy management systems.
Our solution comes with a customizable edge computer that will be installed at your solar farm. This weather resistant box includes connectors to your digital and analogue systems, plus the connectivity to offload the data into your database.
The telemetry data from your inverters, batteries and sensors will be securely streamed to the desired endpoint. That could be in the Polaris cloud or directly into your asset & energy management systems. Streaming occurs up to once per second.
The solution comes with the Smart Solar Control Module, allowing you to manage the inverter and battery settings from your Energy Management System (EMS). You can decide to curtail the inverters or to peak-shave any excess of solar energy.
Sunrock is the largest solar energy company in The Netherlands. We implemented our smart energy middleware solution to monitor and control their solar farms in the most optimal way.
Polaris Smart Solar puts Sunrock in charge of their solar energy management. Integration with their asset management increases uptime. Control over inverter management increases revenues by trading energy output for spot market prices.
The fast-evolving solar industry demands for agility in operating solar assets and optimizing its production. agility in operating solar assets and optimizing production. The Polaris Smart Solar Solution helps you take charge of your different assets with your uniform energy strategy.
You need to standardize your operation, but want to be able to use different brands of inverters and batteries. We enable you to select the right brand for your farm, while keeping your management unified.
Curtailing your inverters and peak-shaving your production increases your revenues by up to 25%. This will become even more important as increasing congestion causes increasing issues on the grid.
The Polaris Smart Solar Solution is plug-and-play, low-overhead middleware. It means you don’t have to build a large infrastructure team and allows you to pay full attention to the analytics and control instead.
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