Im a researcher or teacher. What can WattPlot do for me?
There are many products with far greater penetration into educational institutions, including products by companies such as Fat Spaniel and Draker Labs, than Intallact‘s products.
True research capabilities require the integration of information which is not maintained by WattPlot in any product level. Commercial quality monitoring software, such as that from Fat Spaniel and greenHouse Computers, include the ability to correlate weather conditions to system production. Both of these products are capable of integrating weather data, such as temperature and humidity, and providing advanced analytics which relate increases in building load (power consumption) to ambient temperature, or decreases in solar production to weather features, such as temperature and humidity. The greenMonitor software doesn’t merely combine a weather conditions display on the same web page as the power plant data, it actively computes weather related performance characteristics that impact power plant performance.
The statistical analysis tools in the greenMonitor Renewable Energy System monitoring software provide mean and standard deviation for temperatures between -30 and 120F in 5 degree intervals, and the same statistics for relative humidity from 0 to 100% in 5 percent intervals. With these data, researches and teachers can easily explore the relationship between the elements and renewable energy production. The impact of high ambient temperatures on solar power plant production are readily quantified. The impact of ground fog, low clouds, and other causes of high relative humidity likewise are quantifiable and allow the research, teacher and student to future explore the environmental factors that impact power plant production.
WattPlot is the software of choice for colleages and universities around the world. No other product gives the detail and flexibility of output for performing detailed analysis of how well an OutBack renewable energy system is performing. WattPlot’s state-of-the-art graphics make it easy for students to follow exactly how the system behaves, and how MATE settings work. The per-second data capture, available as raw MATE output, plots, spreadsheets, or straight text, means that researchers get the detail that they need in whatever format works for them.
