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PREVECO

During 2013, it stands out from the R & D activities carried out by CETECK, the PREVECO project. The project is cofunded by the Institute for Small and Medium Industry of the Generalitat Valenciana (IVACE) and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) program for research and technological development for SMEs.

The overall objective of PREVECO project has been the design and development of a prototype of a technology platform for monitoring and control of photovoltaic solar systems, thus optimizing their response in power generation and promote its implementation:

1. Reduction of costs associated with the production of photovoltaic energy by optimizing maintenance of photovoltaic systems, detecting in real-time failures that may decrease the performance of photovoltaic cells, inverters and other elements affecting plant the production of solar energy.
2. Significantly improve performance ratio (performance parameter) of photovoltaic solar installations, ensuring the uptime of the plant as much as possible, thanks to early and predictive fault detection.
3. Optimize selling the power generated by these facilities, to allow predict the energy produced by the installation market for sale to the Pool and avoid penalties for excessing production.

The platform PREVECO is presented as an advanced solution for the photovoltaic industry to be designed for later use in SAAS mode, pay per use and weighted % of installed capacity and generated power and thus encourage that small, medium and large generators to access intelligent predictive technology used by large companies in the photovoltaic industry.

PROPOSED GLOBAL REAL-TIME PLATFORM ARCHITECTURE

FEATURES OF THE SMART MAINTENANCE PLATFORM

The technology platform PREVECO allows:

1.  Control, monitoring, management, advanced simulation and optimization by treating key signs of running photovoltaic systems .
2.  Predicting energy production of photovoltaic installations considering irradiation and weather forecasting,local climate and system behavior using itsmathematical model.
3.  Cálculo del producible de planta en tiempo real a través de instalación de sensor de radiación y temperatura de placa. El producible es la producción máxima teórica instantánea con los datos meteorológicos del momento. Calculation of plant theoretical production in real-time through installation of radiation and temperature sensors
4.  Real-time monitoring and advanced tools for automatic diagnosis of malfunction of PV systems : These tools enable the analysis and detection of faults that would otherwise remain hidden, reducing the costs of operation and maintenance and increasing the production of photovoltaic systems. Early fault detection.