Energy Monitoring for Learning from Light

SolarQuest^Ž Institute for Renewable Energy

Energy Monitoring for Learning from Light

Standard Solutions

Following is a draft outline of economical solutions for energy and weather monitoring at internet-accessible sites.

Customer Hardware: One potentially low cost approach is for the customer to develop their own data logger, then ship data to SolarQuest® to be processed for presentation on the WWWeb.
Built-in Sensors: Sensors and data loggers constitute a significant part of the cost. If these can be obtained from the inverter, costs will be reduced. In order to build such a unique solution, we must work directly with a sample of the customer's hardware in our lab.
Standard Solution: If the inverter's built-in sensors are not accessible, then we offer a fully functional solution that can be integrated with most solar system components.

Option	Description	Price @1	Price @10	Price @100
WWW	Online Web Service Annual fee	$240	TBD	TBD
All examples below will be based on the use of this online service. Then, engineering and hardware in addition to the above will be as follows. (Note the sensitivity of price to quantity. This is due to non-recurring engineering costs.)
10	Customer Hardware Your unique instrumentation	??	??	??
20	Data web services for energy monitoring You determine unique instrumentation & send us your data. We create code to display your data online.	6,000	1,050	555
22	Basic energy monitor for AC-only power systems with web services Pace Scientific Data Logger. Solarimeter. Customer provides PC.	12,960	2,430	1,377
32	As above with complete weather monitoring station	15,340	3,910	2,767
SolarQuest® will evaluate systems which it does not currently support for a fee of $3,000.