WEBDYN’s INNOVATIVE GATEWAY WITH POWER MANAGEMENT FOR PV PLANTS MONITORING
The photovoltaic sector is gaining prominence in a context where new sources of energy are needed. Renewable energy is key for a sustainable future where energy production can be maximized in the best efficient way, and there is a growing demand for technology that addresses the specific needs of the Smart Grid market.
At Webdyn, we have been investing a lot of time and resources in perfecting the ideal equipment for solar plants, including its most powerful asset, the Power Management, a computing device feature which allows to control the power production with minimal impact on performance. This means that the WebdynSunPM can switch between several power modes that will adapt the performance to each situation, optimizing the production output.
The WebdynSunPM with Power Management, for a most efficient electrical power production.
Webdyn’s gateway can be connected to the
electric grid through third-party devices like electric meters, sensors,
inverters, Modbus slave devices, PLCs, relays, etc., via its different input
interfaces: digital, analogue and pulse inputs, relay, RS485/422, 0-10V/4-20mA…
The gathered data is then transmitted in a transparent way via LTE-4G
connectivity or Ethernet to one or two servers, that will interpret and analize
the data before sending it to the final user. The device has a very low data
consumption on mobile networks, and it has a very high data security.
The WebdynSunPM has been especially designed to
answer all the needs of solar plants like real-time monitoring of electricity
production, local action automation, local/remote maintenance (alarms,
troubleshooting, correction), with Power Management and 0 injection to the
grid.
Among other highlights of the WebdynSunPM concentrator,
we would like to mention that it is compatible with most commercially available
inverters, enhancing their handling to change the status, adding, deleting or
modifying the configuration. It can manage more than 200 inverters at the same
time, and it also has easy and quick autodiscovery, automatically detecting
SunSpec. Webdyn’s gateway also includes proprietary protocols (SMA, Delta,
Solarmax), and it works with MQTT, HTTP, and FTP. It can be configured with
remote commands via FTP, SMS or using the embedded web server compatible with
MS Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS), and its DIN rail makes for an easy
installation.
The WebdynSunPM is the perfect connectivity
device to monitor and control photovoltaic installations by collecting,
analyzing and modifying the equipment parameters. It will allow you to define
your scenarios and modulate the power injected to the grid, optimize energy
storage or manage your own consumption. Its Power Management feature will grant
you offloading, autoconsumption, storage, as well as many other actions,
smoothing your transition into a more efficient and sustainable energy production.
Enter the “ethernet” or “modem” connection type:
For an ethernet configuration, make sure the IP parameters are compatible with server access according to the concentrator local network configuration. For an ethernet connection, the configuration must be compatible with the concentrator’s local network topology so that it can access the servers. This configuration is done from the “Networks” configuration page (see section 3.2.2.3: “Networks”).
For a modem connection, the modem configuration must be correct before a connection can be set up. This configuration is done from the “Modem” configuration page (see section 3.2.2.4: “Modem”).
The parameters for the servers to be configured are at least the following:
Therefore the following fields need to be configured: “Interface”, “Type”, “Server type”, “Address”, “Port”, “Login” and “Password”.
The other fields can be left at the default values subject to the directories having been properly created beforehand. See section 3.1.2: “Configuration files” for more details.
Wait. The concentrator will reboot using its factory configuration.
