Renewables & Solar
Inverter, battery and solar-yield telemetry for residential, commercial and utility-scale installations - one platform across mixed-vendor fleets.
IoT-WorkS monitors solar and battery installations across mixed-vendor fleets, integrating over CAN bus and Modbus to report yield, state of charge, throughput and cell health. One platform covers residential, commercial and utility-scale sites instead of one portal per manufacturer.
Where we deploy
3 typical use casesInverter + string-level telemetry
Live yield per string and per inverter; underperformance alerts catch shading, soiling and module faults early.
Battery storage monitoring
CAN + Modbus integration with major BESS vendors. State-of-charge, throughput and cell-health visibility across mixed fleets.
Generation forecasting
Combined weather, irradiance and historical-yield models give 24h and 7-day generation forecasts for trading and demand-response.
Why does mixed-vendor monitoring matter?
Because portfolios are never single-brand. An operator with sites built in different years has inverters and batteries from several manufacturers, each with its own portal, its own definitions and no combined view. Integrating over CAN bus and Modbus produces one dataset with consistent metrics, which is the only way to compare site performance, spot the underperformer and report to an investor on like-for-like terms.
- Yield, performance ratio and availability normalised across vendors
- Battery state of charge, throughput and cell health in one view
- Per-string and per-inverter fault detection rather than site totals
- Portfolio reporting for owners, funders and asset managers
What does generation forecasting add?
Predictability. Combining weather and irradiance forecasts with each site's own historical yield produces 24-hour and 7-day generation estimates specific to that installation rather than to the region. For trading and demand-response participation that is the difference between bidding confidently and bidding cautiously; for maintenance it flags when actual output falls short of what conditions should have produced.
How do you detect underperformance before it becomes a loss?
By comparing each string and inverter against its own learned baseline and against site conditions. Soiling, shading, a failing optimiser or a string that has dropped out show up as a divergence from expected output long before an annual inspection would find them - and because the comparison is per string rather than per site, a partial fault is not hidden by the rest of the array performing normally.
Does this fit MCS-certified and commercial installations?
Both. Monitoring is added independently of who installed the system, so certified residential installations, commercial rooftops and utility-scale sites can sit in the same portfolio view. For installers and O and M providers, that means one platform across a customer base rather than logging into whichever portal each system shipped with.
MCS certified installations (mcscertified.com)Every vertical runs on the same engines: AI Telemetry for sensor data, Engineering services for hardware + firmware + integration, the same platform for dashboards, alerts and compliance exports. The vertical changes the asset class and the regulatory frame; the stack underneath doesn't.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you monitor inverters from different manufacturers?
- Yes. CAN bus and Modbus integration covers the major inverter and battery brands, normalising yield, state of charge, throughput and cell health so mixed-vendor fleets compare on the same terms.
- How far ahead can you forecast generation?
- 24-hour and 7-day forecasts, built from weather and irradiance data combined with each site's own historical yield rather than a regional average.
- How is underperformance detected?
- Each string and inverter is compared against its own learned baseline and site conditions, so soiling, shading or a dropped string shows as a divergence rather than being hidden inside a healthy site total.
- Does it work with an existing installation?
- Yes. Monitoring is added independently of who installed the system, which is what lets certified residential, commercial and utility-scale sites sit in one portfolio view.
- Can owners and funders get their own reporting?
- Yes. Portfolio-level reporting covers yield, availability and performance ratio across sites, which is the view asset managers and funders ask for.
Tell us about your renewables & solar project.
A local engineer will reply within one working day with a recommended sensor mix, gateway architecture and a rough deployment timeline.