What follows are the Top Solar Software and Monitoring Products for 2019. From designing solar arrays to managing O&M, there are a number of products to choose from. Take a look at this year’s innovative products (listed alphabetically by company) within the categories of software and monitoring systems.
See the full list of the 2019 Top Solar Products here.
Designed for solar professionals, the Enphase Enlighten Manager platform streamlines operations and maintenance and enables efficient management of fleets of Enphase solar systems. Enlighten Manager streamlines the management of multiple systems and can help prioritize maintenance needs with the dynamic sorting and filtering capabilities as well as automated alerts.
Conext Gateway and Insight 2 together provide energy management and monitoring for residential and commercial solar applications. End-users can see snapshots of their system operations via mobile or web application, while site managers can manage multiple sites. The Gateway provides easy configuration and commissioning of XW and SW systems for installers.
Solar-Log Base combines detailed performance monitoring with advanced energy management. Components from over 100 manufacturers can be connected to the Solar-Log Base, reducing fleet management to one single portal and one login. New highlights include 4GB of internal storage, integrated oscilloscope, modularity for flexibility and communication ports for controlling consumers.
Recognized as the industry-leading asset management software provider, BluePoint is a modern and secure cloud-based solution for central data management in all stages of the renewable energy asset lifecycle. Owners and operators of assets can manage everything from contracts to technical data interchange between their monitoring system providers.
ACTIS is comprehensive asset management software that integrates into a single platform: centralized real-time monitoring with enhanced alerting, service management, asset management, PPA billing, project management and cost management. With ACTIS you can streamline your operations, consolidate technical, operational and financial reporting; increase efficiency and reduce costs.
Heliolytics leverages +32 GW of experience globally to provide precise, actionable insights for our clients. Through our aircraft-based inspections and advanced consulting, we support the full lifecycle of solar sites; from construction tracking and commissioning scans to recurring operational-phase inspections, we analyze multispectral cell-level defects through to full portfolio trends.
SenseHawk App empowers your solar site field team with intuitive navigation, automated site status updates, powerful ticketing, simplified task management, checklists and one-click access to information. It is the first application to combine all the critical productivity tools for solar site workers in the field.
When solar project sites have many roof obstructions — like a commercial building with hundreds of skylights — ensuring accuracy can be tedious and time-consuming. Computer vision uses cutting-edge technology to automatically identify and model these features. Save time and avoid costly change orders by getting your design right the first time.
PVCAD Utility simplifies and streamlines multi-megawatt and single-axis tracker layout design, even on complex terrain. With click-and-drag control, quickly complete site layouts for utility-scale projects of any size. Define trackers, import topography and get top of pier schedules. Built on Autodesk technology. Get a free demo at pvcomplete.com/pvcad-utility/.
Scanifly‘s drone-based software streamlines the onsite surveying and system design process. Users upload drone imagery to create virtual replica, to-scale 3D models of projects. With our CAD export tool, customers automatically create 2D and 3D DXF files, which include measurements, tilt & azimuth, module layouts, obstructions and fire setbacks.
Designer is a free web-based tool that helps installers lower PV design costs and close more deals with compelling 3D customer proposals. Quick, easy and intuitive, Designer integrates with SolarEdge’s monitoring platform and uses satellite or custom imagery to help plan, build and validate PV systems from inception to installation.
Leading design software PV*SOL premium includes features for designing electric vehicles and the calculation of bifacial modules. The detailed circuit diagram simplifies construction work. 3D models can be imported via an interface and the energy flow diagram represents the overall system, including the battery system and consumers.
Lyra is the evolution of our existing residential design and permitting webapp, SolarDesignTool. Completely rebuilt, Lyra allows users to create a permit-ready design in less than 5 minutes, and instantly generate a permit package with the click of a button for as low as $49. Lyra launches winter 2020.
With Aurora’s Modeling Service, a 3D model of your solar project site can be constructed for you! Create a project, request a model, and less than three hours later you’ll have an expertly designed 3D model in your account. Great for your busy sales team or for challenging project sites.
OpenSolar is the first free sales proposal and enterprise tool. It includes a full solar CRM, sophisticated 3D and mobile design tools, video product content within an interactive customer proposal that lets you take the customer all the way to online payment, all in a free app for installers.
PVSketch is a fast, accurate and intuitive web-based sales tool that simplifies customer-facing proposal generation. Produce precision layouts with little to no training. Create multiple versions with different layouts and equipment. Use as a stand-alone solution or export to PVCAD for seamless sales+engineering collaboration. Try at pvcomplete.com/pvsketch/.
SolarNexus is the premier software platform to profitably operate and scale your independent solar contracting business. SolarNexus combines CRM, design and proposals, and project management into a single software application to simplify operations.
Through the Enphase MyEnlighten web app and its companion app for smartphones, Enlighten Mobile, homeowners can track their energy production and consumption, per-panel energy data and the charge state of installed Enphase batteries, monitor system health, and share energy data with friends, from a simple, easy-to-use interface.
While equipment costs have plummeted, large scale project soft cost reductions have proven stubborn. Site investigations and design work remain manual and expensive. Terabase offers a powerful, web-based solution to accelerate decision-making from siting through to design optimization. Find and then optimize your project site via an intuitive GIS-based interface.