The game changer in the industry: high professional independent PV monitoring & control with VCOM Cloud
The only platform you´ll ever need: professional monitoring, digitalized service management and reliable hosting of your data – enhanced by Machine Learning and AI algorithms
Our VCOM Cloud provides you with a comprehensive solution for your PV portfolio. We combine professional monitoring, digitalized service management and the reliable hosting of your data on our open platform to give you every opportunity to work efficiently and cost effectively.
Profit as an O&M manager, investor or asset manager from our experience and the systematic enhancement of our cloud solution. With our monthly releases, we carefully serve the needs of our customers and the world market.
The sustainable in-house development work acts as the foundation for the exceptional performance and availability of the VCOM Cloud. Discover new ways to link your data and processes with our VCOM API. Our proven VCOM Monitoring and the new VCOM CMMS serve as the pillars of the future-focused, digitalized management of your portfolio. As a result, you will be optimally prepared for the global surge in photovoltaic growth. Together with the blue’Log X-Series or the local SCADA Center, we are also able to provide you with the right solution for monitoring and plant control on your PV system. Optimally linked to the VCOM Cloud, of course. So that everything is a snap for you.
Monthly releases
Our wealth of experience and comprehensive expertise are used to further develop the VCOM all the time. Thanks to monthly software releases, you always benefit from the very latest innovations.
New features at a glance
Numerous features have been newly developed in VCOM Cloud - for improved usability or extended data availability and transparency. This way, the new monitoring in VCOM Cloud supports you in reliable O&M processes. Smart alarms offer a data- and component-based solution, including state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms to detect and generate only alarms that matter. For PV systems that need to ensure a reliable energy supply throughout a 24-hour cycle, energy storage is one of the most tools at hand. For this reason, completely new battery functions have been developed.
Smart alarms
Creating only alarms that matter
The worldwide continuous growth in the renewable energy sector makes it necessary to rely on a strong O&M process to increase the time efficiency towards more green energy generation.
The new monitoring in VCOM offers a data- and component-based solution, including a state-of-the-art machine learning algorithm to detect alarms. For this purpose, data is collected from any source thanks to our open import interface. State-of-the-art machine learning approach has been implemented to learn the normal behavior of an inverter as a main component of a PV system, which then leads to learning the behavior of the system itself. With this approach, possible losses as well as respective root causes can be detected intelligently.
In this sense, all the benefits of machine learning and of the data we dispose of, lead to an efficient, modern monitoring system that only creates alarms that matter.
New user interface
In addition to the updated alarms and the easier system and inverter outage recognition, we redesigned the user interface. It now facilitates the alarm configuration providing the user with standard alarms, user-defined alarms as well as simple rules to configure an Email notification for specific alarms. Using the drag&drop function between the alarm and ticket portlets, the O&M process can be operated even more intuitively and efficiently.
No more redundancy in alarm creation
New alarms are updated as long as the issue is detected by our system.
Easier system & inverter outage recognition
The component-based monitoring makes it possible to identify concretely inverter outages, including the designation of the affected inverter directly from the new alarm portlet.
Simple & intelligent alarm configuration
Due to the intelligent alarm configuration, there is no need for manually pair configurations for every device and no need to manually adjust the alarm configurations after a change on the system configuration. Furthermore, the target value of each inverter based on machine learning algorithm or an automatic inverter comparison is carried out by the VCOM backend.
Outage alarms available over the VCOM API
Providing the data on outage alarms via the VCOM API ensures the automatization of your internal O&M process.
Battery monitoring & control
One of the greatest challenges of the PV industry in its core is the dependency on daylight and weather conditions. For PV systems to ensure reliable energy supply during a whole 24h-cycle, energy storage is one of the most important tools at hand. To facilitate the growth in PV and battery storage systems all over the world, we want to provide you with the necessary tools to monitor and control not only PV systems, but the battery with it.
For this reason, all-new battery features have been developed and will be available in the VCOM Cloud and the blue'Log X-Series.
- New standard charts to display charging and discharging behavior of the system
- The power flow of the system is displayed in the new power flow portlet - available for systems with and without battery
- New battery portlet to evaluate the most important battery values at a glance
Data accessibility & scalability
The VCOM Cloud is continuously being developed to facilitate professional operation management with integrated data handling, portfolio management and alarm handling. You can look forward to integrated solar power forecasts, a new Power Plant Controller dashboard and more flexibility for KPI calculation, which will be available soon. All details about the new features:
Data cloud backup
Easy solution to push data in another cloud infrastructure
The data backup in the cloud provides quick and easy access to raw data from your systems. This allows customer’s internal IT to easily retrieve files and information for end users and to push it in another cloud infrastructure for more data accessibility and scalability.
Coming soon
Solar power forecast
Day ahead and intraday solar power forecast integrated in VCOMFor a fully integrated solution in VCOM, the day ahead as well as the intraday solar power forecast will be soon available in VCOM for a better estimation of the system performance in the short term.
Based on the current system performance, possible losses will be estimated and displayed as well for the respective system to enhance the efficiency in the O&M process and react on time for issues, avoiding further losses in the future.
- Solar power forecast available via the VCOM API
- Solar power forecast available as new chart in VCOM
Losses identification
Detailed classification of losses for a transparent evaluation of the systemIt will be possible to have a detailed classification of the losses for a transparent evaluation of the system based on non-recoverable losses soon. For this purpose, our implemented machine learning algorithm makes it possible to identify systematic errors considering the historical measurement data of the system.
Power Plant Controller dashboard
New standard charts, tabular evaluation of curtailment and effective reporting possibilitesFor systems which are curtailed by grid operators or even with Zero Feed-In limitation, a new Power Plant Controller (PPC) dashboard will summarize all power control relevant information at the point of common coupling as well as its effect on the performance of the system. Therefore the PPC dashboard will include new standard charts, tabular evaluation of the curtailment as well as effective reporting possibilities.
More transparency in technical asset management
Flexibility for KPI calculationThe added value by O&M teams should be reflected on the respective KPI formula based on the specific asset management contracts and transparently correlated to our ticket system.
References
Ravenna Park with 7.72 MWp was installed near Bologna in 2011. Working together with the plant constructor (EPC) Apollon s.r.l., meteocontrol retrofitted monitoring hardware and integrated it into the VCOM portal on location. Marco Borneo, Technical Manager at Apollon s.r.l., explained: “The data loggers from meteocontrol are an effective all-in-one solution for the Italian secondary market.”
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At the end of 2018 Goldbeck Solar realized the PV project SES Saran in Kazakhstan. For the plant with an installed capacity of 100 MWp, meteocontrol supplies the solar power forecast daily and provides VCOM monitoring for the operational management. Based on the specific system data in VCOM, the solar power forecast is optimized with machine learning.
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In less than 18 hours, meteocontrol replaced an unreliable monitoring solution with a future-proof meteocontrol system. The 3 MWp system in South East Spain has worked perfectly every since: “The experienced experts of meteocontrol won us over with their detailed and knowledgeable consulting assistance,” said Martin Schmitt, the Managing Director of the service center TAUBER SOLAR. “They quickly and safely installed an economical and user friendly complete solution.”
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Based on the blue'Log X-Series and the monitoring portal VCOM, meteocontrol supplied the entire monitoring system for the PV system "Bedenac". The PV plant of the historical energy supplier and producer SÉOLIS with an installed capacity of 11 MWp was also equipped with a DEIE interface station for plant control to comply with the grid operator requirements. It is now operated and supervised in the VCOM monitoring platform.
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meteocontrol implemented monitoring stations and VCOM Cloud for the PV roof-system at Guinness Ghana Breweries. The project was realized in close cooperation with the EPC partner AB Solar Africa Ltd. and the system owner CrossBoundary Energy.
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In cooperation with Soventix GmbH meteocontrol realized the monitoring system including engineering, hardware, sensors and remote monitoring platform for the 34 MWp plant "Monte Plata". “meteocontrol provided us with a professional monitoring system that delivers reliable data, visualized in real time. It enables efficient operation management with well thought through analysis and yield overviews”, says Thorsten Preugschas, Managing Director of Soventix GmbH.
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meteocontrol produced a detailed system analysis for a portfolio of seven PV projects. In the process, it identified loss factors early on and oversaw all project phases from planning to operation.
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VCOM Monitoring App
Your plants on your smartphone
The VCOM Monitoring App ensures you have an eye on the performance of your PV systems – at all times and everywhere: you can now monitor key performance indicators such as energy and performance ratio and no longer have to do without real-time values when you are on the go.
We bring the high-resolution performance curve to your screen. Regardless of your location. At any time.
