EDITOR’S CHOICE
CONTROL PLATFORM
SOLO ENERGY
FLEXIBLE, RENEWABLE ENERGY
THE CHALLENGE
In order for the energy to be stored and
shared securely, Solo needed to find a control
platform capable of remotely communicating
with and controlling the batteries and
chargers, as well as enabling vast amounts of
data to be recorded and stored. The platform
needed to enable Solo to control and
remotely communicate with all its distributed
assets individually and collectively, allowing
energy to be quickly shared between them.
It also needed to provide visualisation tools
that would enable Solo to visualise and
analyse all its energy data so that it could
identify trends and improve performance of
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the VPP, and present this information back to
its customers as a user-friendly interface. In
order to allow Solo’s software to grow along
with the business, the software also needed
to be fully scalable.
With data security of paramount importance,
Solo also needed to find the most secure
environment in which to host the control
platform - one which required zero IT
infrastructure in order to deliver a cost-
effective option, and which could be set
up quickly, deliver 24-hour monitoring and
comprehensive customer support, and
guarantee uptime.
THE SOLUTION
In 2017, industrial IT solutions provider
SolutionsPT recommended Wonderware
System Platform 2017 as the software most
suitable for Solo’s needs.
Andrew Graham, SolutionsPT’s Wonderware
Product Manager, said: “System Platform
2017 is an operating system for industrial
applications. It provides configuration,
deployment, security and data connectivity,
bringing essential context to organisations’
data and providing valuable system
documentation throughout the system
lifecycle – everything Solo was looking for.