Optimum Tracker, a company specializing in the design, production and installation of solar trackers at large photovoltaic power plants, has just filed three patents on its innovative application Opti-SkyControl. The system analyzes cloud cover in real time and adjusts tracker angles to maximize output when sunlight is diffuse.
We wanted to harness hardware and software innovation to add a smart dimension to products that until now featured only mechanical innovations. The system is a revolution in the tracker world, opening the door to products in step with our times, delivering increasing performance, and in the service of the energy revolution, says Madyan De Welle, co-founder and Innovation Director of Optimum Tracker.
Opti-SkyControl: up to 2% output gain some month. Using a predictive algorithm, a hemispheric camera and photosensors that measure luminosity, the system is capable of making short-term predictions of changes in cloud cover. It uses these to calculate the trackers optimal angle of inclination to obtain the highest solar luminosity in the prevailing diffuse conditions.
The General Manager Middle East Africa, Thierry Bodiot, will present Opti-SkyControl during the Power & Energy World Africa (PEWA) Conference, in Johannesburg on March 15.
