Aurora Vision PV

Monitoring Solution
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Relevance of PV Monitoring Performance Ratio

PPA Press Release: 85% PR

PVWATTS: 77%

Frauenhofer: 73% PR

California Energy Commission: 67% PR

Difference of ~$2M per MW over life of system

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Lost Energy Detection - Case Study

Before

67%
PR

After

82%
PR

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Commercial rooftop
system
4 years operation
with Inverter-level
only
Converted to stringmonitoring

Power-One Inc. Corporate Highlights

Design, manufacturing, sales and

service in Europe, North America
and Asia
#2 Global supplier of PV inverters
Employees: 3,263
2011 revenue: $1.02B
EBITDA: $217M
Cash & investments
$205M
$1.31 per share

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PV Monitoring Market Share Analysis

Power-One

Power-One is the market

leader in PV Plant
Monitoring and Management
Solutions
Acquired #1 and #2
providers in independent
monitoring
More than 3x size of any
other provider
Only publicly traded provider

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Aurora Vision Unified Solution

Power-One
Sales and
Support
Expertise and
Design Support

Silicon Valley
Technical
Center of
Excellence

Power-One
World Class
Manufacturing
Unified Plant
Management

Fat Spaniel Software

Features
Aurora Vision
Software
MYPVDATA Software
Features

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Aurora Vision
Hardware

SolarMagic Hardware

Breadth and Width of Aurora Vision Solution

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Residential.

Commercial

Utility

Unified Monitoring Architecture

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Design Support
Data Loggers
Revenue-Grade Metering
Weather Stations
Smart Combiners
Communication HW
3rd Party HW Support
Agency Reporting

Data Hosting & API

Software as a Service
On-Site Commissioning
Support
Bankability

Residential Monitoring Solutions

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Local Monitoring
Lowest cost monitoring ~$100
Connects to homeowners
laptop or desktop via adapter
Free Aurora Communicator
software
Rich data set

Voltage/current for each MPPT block

Lifetime, Today, Last 7 days, Last Month,
Last 30 Days, Last 365 Days
Grid voltage, current, frequency, & power
transferred to the grid
Serial Number/Code, production week, Firmware
revision code

Order as PVI-USB-RS485-232

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Local Monitoring

3 color touch screen display , tabletop or wall mount

Inverter setup, diagnostics

Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Yearly

energy production

300 ft indoor, 900ft open field

operating range

Communication with up to 6 string

inverters

~$300 Solution

Order as PVI-DESKTOP, PVI-DESKTOPBT, PVI-RADIOMODULE

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Remote Residential Monitoring Diagram

RS485

Monitoring of
Aurora Inverters

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Easy Installation

Step 1: Wire RS485 to inverter

Internet
Step 3: Plug into AC outlet

Step 2: Connect to internet

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Easy Provisioning
One time only: Call Power-One Tech Support (877-2611374) and establish an Aurora Vision Login
For each install
1.
2.
3.

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Create the site

Associate data logger serial number to that site
Share the plant and provide the URL to the homeowner

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Remote Residential Monitoring Overview

Order as VSN-MGR-RES-P1-US
~$600 solution
Data logger provides 30-days buffering
Includes hardware, license for inverter(s), data
hosting/software for 10 years
Installer gets O&M view

Tracking of fleet and equipment performance

Proactive customer support

Homeowner gets pretty public view

*No need for modbus adapter
*Applications requiring support for non-Power-One inverters need to use different part number
*Applications requiring revenue-grade meter or weather stations need to use commercial kits

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Public Display View

Company logo here!

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Can be viewed from just

about any internet
browser anywhere!
Customized
graphics/logos across top
Auto scrolling option
Can be embedded as
iframe
Post to your Facebook!!

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Commercial and Utility Monitoring Solutions

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Aurora Vision Commercial Use Solution

Aurora Smart Combiner

for string-level
monitoring of 8, 12, 16,
20 strings
Monitoring of
Aurora Inverters

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Aurora Vision Utility Use Solution

Aurora Smart Combiner

for string-level
monitoring of 8, 12, 16,
20 strings

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Cost-Benefit Analysis 250KW Plant Example

Total system watts
Watts per string
Annual kWh/W
Annual kWh/string
$$/kWh
Annual value
Increased production
Increased annual production value

250,000
3,640
1.4
350000
0.25
87,500
5%
4,375

$
$
$
$
$
$

69
7,935
3,450
4,485
224
368
592

$
$

Number of strings in system

Cost of string-level monitoring hardware
Cost of standard combiners
Incremental cost for string-level monitoring
Annualized cost of string-level monitoring hardware
Annual monitoring fee
Total annual cost of string-level monitoring

Fill in the yellow highlighted cells with your system's information

Typically only 1% more energy harvest needed to pay for

string-monitoring
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Aurora Universal Key Features

NEMA 4 Enclosure
Secure Linux OS
Extreme
temperature range
Easy wiring access
Many variants to
suit your
application

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Aurora Enviornmental Key Features

Easy installation
Six sensor

Horizontal Irradiance
Plane-of-Array Irradiance
Panel temperature
Ambient temperature
Wind speed
Wind direction

SunSpec Compliant
Flexibile placement with
Modbus/RS485
Order as VSN-ENVIRO-CMML
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Aurora Smart Combiner Key Features

Industry lowest power
consumption
NEC compliant CSA listed to
UL1741 & IEC 61439
Optional DC disconnect with
lock out tag out
Optional type 2 Surge
protection
8, 12, 16, 20 string models

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Quoting Aurora Vision for Commercial

Back of the Napkin: Monitoring is typically 1-2% of the
total cost of the PV system
Budgetary Quoting
Useful before a project is fully committed
Half-page, excel-based questionnaire from which we can do a
budgetary quote
Will need to do formal quote before ordering

Formal Quote
Send single-lines (electrical and site plans) to Power-One sales
representative

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Portfolio Page

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Plant Summary

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Plant Symmetry Analysis

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Plant Symmetry Analysis

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Reporting

Standard Reports

Name Custom
Reports

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Public Display View

Your company logo here!

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about any internet
browser, anywhere!
Customized
graphics/logos across top
Auto scrolling option
Can be embedded as
iframe
Post to your Facebook!!

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Intersection with SCADA Systems

Hardware Components
Smart combiners
Weather stations
Data loggers

Software Components
Analytics
Alarming

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