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Aggregation: An Unstoppable Trend in Solar Power Plant Monitoring

October 30, 2017

Historically, PV monitoring vendors developed fully-integrated solutions, including both on-site hardware to acquire the data and remote software to collect, process, and present it. While this one-stop-shop approach to data acquisition and presentation remains dominant, it is increasingly getting challenged by a new model: hardware-independent data aggregation.

Why aggregation?

In early markets, plant operators and owners tend to standardize on one monitoring solution (hardware and software) that fits their needs. When markets mature, however, things tend to get messy. Some vendors disappear, get acquired, or become less competitive. Projects get sold.

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