iPLON – Monitoring & Control Systems

O&M of Solar Farms

Headquarters Indian Office

iPLON GmbH iPLON India Pvt Ltd.
Karl-Kurz-Str. 36 #26/80,Luz Avenue, 5th Street,
D-74523 Schwäbisch Hall – Mylapore,
Hessental, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Germany 600 004
What’s in a Name?
TCP-iP
iPLON
LON
Works

TCP-iP: Communication Protocol

LON Works: Decentral Applications

Victor Thamburaj - CEO, iPLON GmbH

MD, iPLON India Pvt. Ltd.
IIT Madras (1972), Electrical Engineering
 About iPLON
 Solar O&M company and not just an Automation company

 Philosophy: Renewable Energy, Smart Grid and Cities, Post Carbon Society

 Over 12 years of field experience

 200+ man years of R&D, Engineering

 Portfolio of over 2000 MWp in operation

 Locations: Germany, India (1000 MW+), Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Switzerland,
Portugal, Japan, Canada | *International presence in emerging Markets

 Over 4500 sites/plants in monitoring portfolio

 Strength: Internet of Things (IoT), Embedded Systems, Big-Data Analytics

 *India’s First Multi-Utility Company in Gandhigram Rural Institute, Dindigul, Tamil

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iPLON Mantra – “Smart Grids”
Products
 SCADA
 iAT – Intelligent Automation Terminal
 iMT – Intelligent Management Terminal
 iAMT – Intelligent Automation-Management
Terminal
 iMS – GPS Synchronization Clock
 iFirewall
iAT

 Cloud-based Monitoring
 iBOX (Rooftops)
 Load assessment Box

 Hybrid Systems
 PV-DG Controller (i_IOT)
 Zero Evacuation iBOX

 Telemetry Systems iMT

 Magic Box - IEC 60870-101/104 The iAT’s and iMT are used in combination for solar plants with
multiple inverter rooms and a main control room (>5 MW)

 Weather Monitoring Sensors The iAMT is used typically for a solar plant where is a single
 Kipp & Zonen, Lufft, M&T inverter-cum-main control room (1-5 MW)
Solutions Value-added Services:
• O&M
 SCADA
• Soiling loss
• Power Control
• Forecasting
• Grid-stability

 Cloud-based Monitoring Value-added Services:

• Central Monitoring System
• Single platform access
• Remote commissioning
• Data Analytics

 Hybrid Systems
 PV-DG Controller (i_IOT)
Central Monitoring System
A common monitoring platform solution for all your plants across PAN-India…
PV-DG Hybrid Controller
 PV-DG Controller (i_IOT)

• The i_IOT Controller works on the

principle feature of Inverter
Power Reduction

• The control is done over the

communication port of the
Inverters on the physical layer

• It protects the DG from Reverse

Flow of current from the Solar
inverters

Installations

Amplus Solar Energy Solutions – 10+ locations across India; South India – Guntur, AP
SunSure Energy – 2 locations in North India
Clientele

And many more…

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