GoodWe Weather Monitoring Solution

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What is Weather Monitoring Station?

Nowadays, weather monitoring station is becoming popular for commercial PV power plant, which can be outstandingly helpful in
monitoring the performance of the solar power plant.
Normally, a weather monitoring station includes different sensors, monitoring the weather parameters at site such as solar radiation,
wind velocity, wind direction, humidity, module temperature etc.
With the weather data collected, we could use the data not only to analyze whether the PV system is generating electricity as
expected, but also arrange the maintenance schedule if there is an obvious difference between the real-time performance and the
estimated generation based on the weather data.

6 in 1 outdoor sensor

What is GoodWe Weather Monitoring Solution?

General Introduction
Aiming at providing the best monitoring solution for PV system, GoodWe Ezlogger Pro is integrated with RS485 port along with
standard MODBUS-RTU protocol, compatible with most of the WMS on the markets.

Ezlogger Pro
RS485 Internet
SEMS
MODBUS-RTU
GoodWe Cloud SEMS Platform
Weather Station RS485

Note:
Please contact us to check whether the protocol of the weather monitoring station is compatible with our Ezlogger Pro before
deployment.

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Ezlogger Pro Commissioning

After connecting the weather monitoring station to the local Ezlogger Pro with RS485 cable, we could use GoodWe’s ProMate to
set the RTU addresses of both the weather monitoring station and its sensors in the sector “Parameter Set” and then check whether
Ezlogger Pro has successfully collected the weather data through the sector “Real Time Data”.

Set RTU addresses of WMS and the sensors

Read the real-time data

Weather Data Monitoring & Demonstration

After uploading the weather data to GoodWe cloud server, users could easily view the real-time data on GoodWe SEMS monitoring
platform, including:

1)Radiation Day Total(MJ/m2) 2)Radiation Intensity(WJ/m2)

3)Environment Temperature(℃) 4)PV Module Temperature(℃)

5)Wind Velocity(m/s) 6)Wind Direction(°)

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Other Features
What’s more, GoodWe SEMS Portal also provide two features:

1.PR Value
Normally, the metric PR will be used to use the conversion efficiency of DC to AC to intuitively learn about the performance of the
solar power plant. For example, low efficiency of solar modules may be caused by high ambient temperature and relative humidity;
frequent heavy rainfall can explain low energy yields at high solar radiation etc.

2. Diagnosis with IV Scan

IV diagnosis is a common to conclude the status through the weather data. If there is an obvious difference between the real-time
I/V and the estimated generation based on the weather data, the maintenance team could carry out necessary activities at proper
time.

Notice
The information in this document is subject to change without notice, all information in this document do not constitute any kind of warranty.

Please check with GoodWe Solar Academy 'academy@goodwe.com' for the latest version. 

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