Revolutionizing Solar Energy Monitoring: EnerMAN’s IoT Solutions Driving Efficiency and Sustainability – Ashok D M,  Founder, CEO & MD EnerMAN Technologies Pvt Ltd.

Key Highlights:

1. EnerMAN’s affordable IoT solutions streamline solar PV plant operations, cutting costs by 70% while enhancing data analysis.
2. EnerMAN’s products reduce CO2 emissions by 18 metric tons annually, optimizing efficiency across 1.8GWp installations in 10 countries.
3. EnerMAN’s intuitive SCADA platform offers automatic DGR, live alerts, and inverter performance ranking, empowering renewable energy operators with actionable insights.

1.Can you tell us about EnerMAN Technologies’ journey in developing IoT-based AI and ML-driven products for solar PV plant and rooftop monitoring?

In the year 2015-16, we have seen EPC service providers were not getting supply and installation of SCADA even after commissioning of the Solar Plants and not getting quick service support to resolve the filed issues. We have seen O&M service provider spending lot of time & effort in collecting the generation data manually from plant equipment, entering in MS excel and sharing the generation data. We have seen Solar PV asset owners were not getting quality live data consistently to their HQ for analysis of Solar PV asset performance. Many of the SCADA suppliers’ prices were very high and SCADA contract renewal yearly charges were also very high.

EnerMAN try to address all above challenges by providing end to end, inhouse developed, IoT product at affordable price (price reduction by more than 70%), quick supply and installation (turn around time reduced from 3-4 month to 3 to 6 weeks, ensured Zero data loss and automation of DGR (Daily Generation Report) / report generation.

2.How does EnerMAN Technologies contribute to achieving net-zero emissions in regions like India/South Asia/Middle East/Australia /Africa?

EnerMAN products will help in improving the efficiency / generation by more than 2%. Our products are deployed in 10 countries over 1.8GWp Solar plants which will directly contribute to generating more than 2% i.e., 45 million units out of 2.25 billion units, which will reduce 18 Metric Tons of Co2 emission.

3.Could you highlight key features of your products that are popular among renewable energy industry customers?

EnerMAN IoT SCADA’s automatic DGR, Live Alerts, Easy to use dashboards, Inverters performance Ranking, Breakdown loss analysis, customizable graphs, SLD and Live dashboard, features are popular with customers.

4.How do EnerMAN Technologies’ products address challenges for solar PV plant operators and rooftop owners, improving performance and efficiency?

Reliable, affordable, end-to-end, easy to use, SCADA solution to fulfil all regulatory compliance, quick supply & installation service and getting quality data consistently without data loss for analysis of Solar PV Assets performance is a big challenge for Solar PV Asset owners and operators. EnerMAN is trying to address these challenges. 

EnerMAN IoT SCADA product ETi-SOL web app and mobiles apps, monitors the performance of key equipment 24/7 and notify the faults/failures/breakdown through alerts / alarm in few seconds. This will help Engineers/Technicians to attend plant equipment faults/failures/breakdown to reduce the loss of generation / damage of assets.  

EnerMAN provides analysis on Inverter ranking based on Inverter performance on various KPIs. This will help Asset Owners / O&M site Engineers/Technicians to initiate the comprehensive maintenance work to improve the performance of underperforming Inverters, which will enhance the performance of Solar PV plants. 

EnerMAN provide analysis of Equipment downtime, keep track of equipment downtime, which will help Asset Owners / O&M team to take timely preventive and corrective action to reduce the downtime, which will enhance the performance of Solar PV plants and Inverter downtime loss.

5.What are your expansion plans in the renewable energy market, and how do you foresee your products evolving to meet future customer needs?

EnerMAN is developing monitoring, control and analysis products of BESS (Battery Energy Storage System). This will lead to utilizing renewable energy 24/7 in future.