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Data Monitoring Equipment: The FRONIUS IG DatCom
Fronius offers the most robust data monitoring and
analysis package available, and has a wide array of
components to assist you in collecting information about your
system's performance. The Fronius data monitoring system, also known as
the DatCom system, helps you keep track of information such as
cumulative energy output, system voltage, and irradiance, just to name a
few parameters.
Installers and homeowners find this information helpful in
analyzing their system's performance over extended periods to ensure
their system is operating as advertised, and to corroborate the amount
of energy sold back to the utility. Public facilities use this
information to display system performance to the general public, while
schools use the DatCom system to help with science curricula and
educational projects and to compare their systems with those in other
cities.
Comparable systems of this sophistication can cost
several thousand dollars more, and often don't give you the PV-specific
analysis tools. The DatCom system's combination or performance and price
makes it the best value in data monitoring available.
The DatCom system's features include:
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IG.online
– Free Web-Based Data Hosting for Remote System Access and
Analysis
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IG.access
– PC Based Software for Complete Data Monitoring
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Automatic
Download of Data
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Energy
& Service Reports Sent via E-Mail
- Personalized Start Page
The DatCom components include:
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FRONIUS IG Datalogger Box
The brain of the operation. The Datalogger Box stores data from up
to 100 inverters and 10 Sensor Boxes, along with your programmed
sensor constants and other information. |
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FRONIUS IG COM Card
The COM Card is communications hardware that is installed directly
into your FRONIUS IG in the same way a Plug-n-Play card is installed
in your PC. Every inverter needs a COM Card in order to communicate
to the Datalogger to allow you to receive your data. |
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FRONIUS IG Sensor Box
The Sensor Box enables you to incorporate weather data such as
irradiance, temperature, and wind speed, load data, and/or other
system information, depending on the sensors connected. |
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FRONIUS IG.access
The software that brings it all together. FRONIUS IG.access offers a
myriad of tools to provide users with the ability for casual data
viewing or sophisticated mathematical analysis. The software also
provides users with the ability to change certain inverter settings. |
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