What follows are the Top Solar Software and Monitoring Products for 2022. 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 2022 Top Solar Products here.
LYNK ACCESS software enables LYNK II Communications Gateway hardware to configure and customize Discover batteries. LYNK ACCESS is a Windows-based software application that can cascade firmware updates to battery strings, defines external communication protocols for closed-loop operation and sets rules for the customized relay triggers in LYNK II GATEWAY devices.
Ivy Energy is transforming adoption of onsite clean energy resources for multi-unit communities through Virtual Grid software. Virtual Grid uses smart grid logic and proprietary algorithms to distribute solar energy between units in shared buildings. It guarantees monthly energy savings for tenants and new net operating income for property owners.
Leading commercial and residential developers trust Performance Assurance to optimize their solar assets, reduce operational expenses and protect their investments. Plans feature AI-powered technology that identifies and diagnoses actionable alerts, proactive communication and support from solar experts, centralized reporting, guaranteed performance and managed service via a nationwide field service network.
PowerHub is asset management software built for the renewable energy industry. We’re simple, but powerful, and we empower our users to do exactly what they need to.
Cloud-based asset performance management software solution empowering owners, operators and asset managers in renewables with tools to monitor, manage and optimize the performance of renewable energy assets via automated workflows, analytics and smart, accurate insights — from operations to reporting to technical asset management.
SOLARMAN Business is an all-in-one solar monitoring and management platform for PV professionals, device manufacturers and investors. It supports various solar system types (grid-tie, off-grid, storage system and etc.) and supervises multiple device types, including inverter, meter, weather station, combiner box, module, logger, battery and etc.
Solar SCADA’s industry first, standalone, fully integrated RMS system exceeds IEC 61724 specifications — meeting the commercial solar sector’s needs. Easy-to-install asset monitoring package with innovative hardware simplifies sensor install, calibration, communication, data feeds and maintenance. Its Radix IoT, Mango software enables remote management, triage and scaling of solar installs affordably.
Athena is a unified clean energy management platform that empowers organizations to monetize their clean energy technologies with AI-capabilities that reduce carbon impacts, improve energy resilience and maximize revenue. The platform enables an interconnected ecosystem of owners and developers to gain full visibility into their solar and EV charging assets.
Construct is a cloud-based construction management app for tracking, schedule validation and forecasting of large-scale solar projects. The tool serves as a single-source-of-truth for construction progress and site inventory, combining interactive charts and maps with overlays of construction drawings, work progress layers and drone imagery.
PeakYield is a combination of software intelligence and site design techniques that will optimize all elements of your tracker’s performance. Maximize energy yield through efficient land utilization, lower operating costs, industry leading live data outputs and smart technology to improve production output while significantly reducing operating downtime.
3D modeling of commercial sites can be error-prone and time-consuming. With HelioScope’s LIDAR feature, you can create an accurate 3D site model on the first try, every time. HelioScope expedites the design process by automatically accounting for shading from trees and neighboring structures in the performance simulation.
Greenlancer is an online marketplace for solar installers to purchase permit drawings, engineering wet stamps and other services from a network of certified design and engineering firms. Built for speed, installers sign up for free and shop a catalog of services at prices that fit their needs.
IMGING verifies your sales proposals by allowing surveyors to fly a roof in minutes, auto-generate a 3D model, view shading, measure facets and penetrations and export models into any CAD program. Your call-offs just got called-off.
SMA Sunny Design makes designing PV systems convenient, productive and uncomplicated. Within minutes of submitting initial project information online, the optimal system configuration will be produced, allowing solar power professionals and plant designers a comprehensive guide. This tool is free to use and enables flexible design options.
PlantPredict is a solar modeling tool designed to develop energy estimates for utility-scale PV applications. The cloud-based app is capable of sub-hourly and multi-year predictions, offering proven bankability with 100% open-source documentation of algorithms. It has been used to predict over 1 TW of projects to date.
SIFT is a smart project optimization software used in early-stage development to identify the best system design and the right products for your solar projects. It crunches variables like weather and terrain, factors affecting module performance, as well as finance and revenue structures.
PV*SOL premium with 3D visualization and detailed shading analysis helps system designers and installers to professionally design and plan all types of photovoltaic systems — whether full or excess feed-in, net metering or off-grid, whether in combination with electrical appliances, battery systems and electric vehicles or together with a heat pump.
Leveraging the industry’s most powerful 3D designs in an interactive, easy-to-use platform, Sales Mode is an accurate proposal tool your reps will actually love. With 3D designs in 30 seconds, integrated financing and automated contract generation, Sales Mode gives your sales team everything they need to close with confidence.
Blu Banyan’s SolarSuccess is the leading cloud-based business management suite specifically optimized for the needs of solar installers that have outgrown their existing mix of incompatible applications and are seeking an integrated solution that includes solar-specific accounting, CRM, project management, inventory and team collaboration functionality.
Bodhi is the leading customer experience platform for residential solar. Our white-labeled solution helps growing installers focus on what they do best — executing on projects and making more sales. Solar installers using Bodhi have reduced customer support costs 50% while seeing referrals increase 30%.
Demand IQ helps solar providers nationwide increase website lead volume up to 3.3X and automate customer acquisition using conversational AI. Its white-label-ready virtual solar sales AI uses Google Project Sunroof to provide personalized saving calculations so shoppers can get estimates from any solar provider’s website with ease and transparency.
Enact’s innovative solar installer software helps rapidly grow solar and storage business by speeding up sales and project execution, while delivering high performing solar and energy storage systems. Our all-in-one cloud software for remote design includes satellite images, mobile proposals with detailed pricing and energy analytics and seamless project management.
Enerflo is purpose-built for residential solar installers, EPCs and sales dealers. Enerflo combines the tools you already use together with proprietary platform features into one cohesive sales and install platform, creating efficiencies that reduce soft costs, and delivering one connected flow from lead to PTO.
Quativa streamlines the solar industry’s sell-to-install workflow with an intelligent, intuitive sales and project management app that plugs into the nation’s largest network of installers. Quativa makes the solar sales and installation process identical across markets, cutting out variables that slow down growth.
Shape Solar Software is an all-in-one sales, lead and project management software for the solar professional. Shape offers a solar CRM, solar proposal tool, and solar client portal as well as a dialer, e-mail/text automation, marketing suite and over 500+ features to optimize any solar business.
Lead Capture AI lets homeowners see the potential their home has for solar, from the comfort of their couch. Curious homeowners enter their address and an electric bill estimate on a participating solar installer’s website and Lead Capture AI generates an instant 3D solar design and models their potential savings.
Sunvoy is built by a solar installer for solar installers. It’s a software platform for growing & running your solar business. It enables a solar installer to have a branded customer portal, an organized way to manage a solar fleet, automate solar specific tasks and communication to solar customers. Simple to integrate, effortless results.
The SMA Energy App offers customers a perspective on both their solar power generation and usage while giving responsive recommendations for economical energy supply management. With up-to-date forecasts on solar power production to insights into optimization usage, the SMA Energy app provides one single resource to aid in energy transition.
Infinity delivers real-time energy insights and costs at every circuit, increasing customers’ energy awareness, maximizing solar savings and ensuring continued satisfaction. With ease of deployment, continued insights and remote diagnostics, Infinity results in reduced energy costs for your customers, fewer complaint calls and additional follow-on sales.
SOLARMAN Smart simplifies smart energy management for global solar households. Its user-friendly interface and all-round monitoring capabilities support various solar systems such as grid-tie, off-grid and storage system. Users can easily track their data, including production, consumption, grid and battery status from a glimpse of energy flow chart.
The FlexOM Gateway V2 is CPS America’s newest and most advanced inverter data and communications gateway solution. The Gateway card enables remote diagnostics and troubleshooting to reduce system downtime while eliminating the need for expensive truck rolls. Ethernet and 4G options are available, plus access to the CPS web portal.
Mana Monitoring serves the C&I sector to aggregate entire solar portfolios into a central platform. Mana works with all inverter and meter brands and natively supports solar and load monitoring and brings efficiencies through the issues and ticketing system. Measure, Monetize, Mana!
Insight is Schneider Electric’s energy management ecosystem for solar and storage. It provides intuitive mobile and browser-based interfaces that allow users to track and monitor energy production and consumption in real time. Insight helps installers simplify solar and storage system configuration and offers powerful remote management features.
SMA Smart Connected is a proactive, premium monitoring service to help deliver reliable system performance over the product life. This is a free and automatic service that comes standard from SMA. Should a fault be detected, the system will identify the cause and error analysis and start the replacement process.
SolarView for SolarEdge provides proactive monitoring and notifications for SolarEdge users and installers, increasing customer satisfaction and decreasing truck rolls. SolarView not only monitors fault conditions, but also results-based production estimates and expected equipment degradation. SolarView requires no added hardware and is available for iOS, Android and Windows.