Solytic and Powerdoo are planning closer cooperation in the future, according to both companies. The PV monitoring specialists offer their solutions primarily to technical operators to support commercial and industrial PV assets. The portals run on all common devices, are independent of the hardware manufacturer and offer white labels.
The two companies will exchange ideas and experiences to improve automated monitoring using new technologies. In the future, technical operators’ control rooms will have to be more automated in order to free specialist personnel from screen activities. Market developments and cost pressure are forcing O&Ms [operation and maintenance businesses] to manage ever larger portfolios to defend their margins. The motto is more on-site commitment instead of monotonous off-site asset monitoring.
“Due to the annual growth, more and more PV assets have to be monitored,” said Konrad Perényi, managing director of Solytic. “The global market will double by 2022. This will not work with today’s manual solar PV monitoring. Control rooms with 15 employees now support around 1 GW. This equation must be solved. Powerdoo and Solytic are working on this.”
Johannes Dahl, MD of Powerdoo, said: “When two German companies want to work in one direction and survive on the global market, you have to talk about an exchange. After one-and-a-half friendly years we now want to intensify our relationship in order to significantly increase the degree of automation in plant monitoring in the PV market.”
