Monitoring a photovoltaic system is essential and brings benefits to consumers who invest in solar energy in their homes and businesses. And with the expansion of the photovoltaic source, more and more companies are expanding their businesses in the country, bringing solutions that help the Brazilian photovoltaic market.
Aiming to meet this demand, Ecori Energia Solar expanded the APsystems ECU-B (Basic Energy Communication Unit) to its portfolio. The monitoring line is recommended for installations of up to four modules.
For Rodrigo Matias, commercial director at Ecori, monitoring the system is fundamental and brings benefits to customers. “Real-time monitoring is essential, as it enables assertive measurement of what is happening in the system and delivers graphic information, strategic factors to mitigate problems and, consequently, maintenance costs”, he highlights.
APsystems Power Communication Units collect data from microinverters and transfer it to the EMA (Energy Monitoring and Analysis System), where it is possible to access electrical parameters, both on the direct current side and on the current side. alternately, select the network profile according to the local dealership, in addition to allowing the technical team to carry out the diagnosis remotely and securely.
The complete platform is free and can be accessed by the customer by registering a username and password. Real-time monitoring can be done through the EMA app or website apsystemsema.com.
Ecori emphasizes that monitoring brings the integrator closer to the end consumer and strengthens the trust in this relationship, boosting the integrator's monthly revenue. The company currently supplies the ECU-R and ECU-C lines and this expansion of its catalog reinforces the importance of monitoring as a strategic element in the performance management of plants, allowing greater predictability and speed in the diagnosis and correction of possible failures.
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I have installed a solar generation system with 8 665 W panels each with 2 APSystem Microinverters and the Wifi communicator ECU-B, which controls the 8 panels. Everywhere I look, this ECU-B informs me that it controls only 4 panels and 1 Microinverter. I am now expanding the system and adding 4 more 665 W panels with 1 microinverter and I was informed that my ECU-B needs to be replaced by a UCU-R, which controls up to 400 panels. There is no intermediate model to control the 12 panels.