Kanada Energy Pulse: solar plant monitoring and management platform
Pulse is our online platform. It shows what a solar power plant or a storage system is doing right now and what it did before, and tells you by email when something is wrong. It is built for companies with many plants of mixed brands, and for owners and operators who want to notice lost production early, not at the end of the month.
Four data sources, one dashboard
Pulse reads four sources: Victron (GX device and the VRM portal), Sungrow (iSolarCloud), FoxESS Cloud and Huawei FusionSolar. FoxESS and Huawei plants are read through an API account created by the plant’s owner or installer. A company with many plants of mixed brands follows them all in one place.
Each company has its own account, its own users and roles: viewer, editor and admin. Colleagues can follow the same plants.
A home page for fleets
The home page shows the totals: installed power, current production, today’s yield and the plants needing attention. Below it is a map of Turkey with a marker for each plant, coloured by its status and showing the weather there now (sun, cloud, rain).
On the Plants page you can search plants and filter them by platform and city. Each plant has a record: name, description, installed capacity, city and location. Admins edit these records.
Every plant in detail
Each plant’s dashboard shows live power and today’s yield, production by hour and by day, and imported production history. In a plant the total alone hides problems, so every inverter is listed with its status and power. Sungrow plants also list the data loggers that carry the plant’s data.
For Victron storage systems it also shows the grid meter, the loads and every battery bank with its own name and charge, so you see how much energy comes from the grid, from the sun and from the battery.
Email alarms
Alarms work as rules. Companies with many plants receive digest emails: one email lists all the affected plants instead of one email per plant. Each plant has its own alarm on/off switch. When a problem is resolved a recovery email follows, and while it lasts a daily reminder email is sent.
The platform checks every plant regularly and sends an email to the company’s users when:
- a plant stops reporting;
- an inverter goes offline;
- an inverter reports a fault (FoxESS plants for now);
- a data logger goes offline (Sungrow);
- there is no production in daylight;
- the battery is low (Victron);
- data collection from a provider stops (one email instead of one per plant);
- a power order fails.
Finding lost production early
Monitoring does not make panels produce more; it shortens the time a problem stays unnoticed. A stopped inverter, a data-logger outage or a daytime without production is reported soon after it happens, not found on the next bill or site visit. The platform exists to catch these losses early.
The platform shows the hourly market electricity price (EPİAŞ day-ahead price, PTF) next to production, with the value in lira. You see what each hour of production is worth and which hours of the day matter most.
Scheduled power limits and remote control
For supported Sungrow plants only, the platform can schedule a power limit from a calendar: a limit in kW or in percent for a set period, after which the previous setting is restored. Every order is logged step by step, and a report is produced when it ends. This function is switched on plant by plant, after it has been tested on site with the plant’s owner.
FoxESS and Huawei plants are monitored only (view-only) for now; there is no control for them yet. On Victron systems the relay of the GX device can be switched from the platform, and automations can run on the GX device itself, for example switching a relay by battery charge.
In your language, on your phone
The platform is available in Turkish, English, Arabic and Russian, and is designed for the phone first: you can follow your plants from your phone.
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Frequently asked questions
- Which systems can be connected?
- Four sources: Victron systems whose GX device is connected to the VRM portal, Sungrow plants on iSolarCloud, FoxESS Cloud and Huawei FusionSolar. Tell us what you have; we assess other equipment case by case.
- Do I need extra hardware on site?
- Usually not. A Victron system needs its GX device (for example a Cerbo GX) to be online, and a Sungrow plant needs its data logger to report to iSolarCloud. FoxESS and Huawei plants need an API account created by the plant’s owner or installer.
- Does monitoring increase production?
- Not by itself. It shortens the time a fault stays unnoticed: a stopped inverter or an offline data logger is reported by email soon after it happens. What that is worth depends on the plant.
- Can you control my plants?
- On supported Sungrow plants, yes: a power limit is scheduled from a calendar and the previous setting is restored when it ends; the function is switched on plant by plant after a test on site. FoxESS and Huawei plants are view-only for now; there is no control for them yet. On Victron systems the GX device’s relay is switched from the platform.
- Can I see it before deciding?
- Yes. The demo shows the platform with a real Victron system; open it from the demo link on this page.
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