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This product is no longer available and has been replaced by: SunSentry. Some accessories, replacement parts, or services may still be available.

Overview

The CSP100 is a turn-key automated data-acquisition system specifically designed to meet CAISO meteorological station requirements of concentrated-solar-power generating facilities. It is recommended for assessing power-plant performance, which requires the best possible solar resource measurements.

The CSP100 is field-ready, with features to minimize installation time and field wiring errors. Though offered as a turn-key package, nearly every aspect of the system is customizable, including sensors, communications, mounting, and power supply.

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Most of the systems we sell are customized. These systems, however, typically measure the following parameters:

  • Direct Normal Irradiance (DNI)
  • Diffuse Horizontal Irradiance (DHI)
  • Global Horizontal Irradiance (GH)
  • Wind speed
  • Wind direction
  • Air temperature
  • Relative humidity
  • Barometric pressure
  • Precipitation

Benefits and Features

  • Contains a Campbell Scientific CR1000 Measurement and Control Datalogger
  • Provides the lowest uncertainty of the GH, DNI, and DIFF solar radiation measurements
  • Fast to field with industry-proven, high-accuracy sensors
  • Factory fabrication, programming, and testing minimizes field wiring errors and reduces deployment time
  • Meets CAISO required meteorological data points
  • Approved California ISO Remote Intelligent Gateway (RIG) for secure encrypted information transmission to CAISO
  • Complies with Modbus, DNP3, CANbus, and PakBus protocols
  • Supports nearly all communication technologies such as RS-485, fiber, TCP/IP, cellular, or satellite
  • Reference design: “Solar Resource and Meteorological Project (SOLRMAP)”, NREL
  • Provides a modular, programmable, and customizable system
  • Provides a battery back system that allows data collection during power outages and network failure
  • Acts as single point data gateway for environmental, inverter, and meter data
  • Supports TCP/IP functionality, including: HTTP Get, HTTP Post, FTP server and client, TelNet server, PING, Micro serial server, DHCP client, DNS client, email send and receive
  • Supports Web Service API
  • Supports individual module and string level power measurements
  • Shipped with a quick-deploy installation guide and system schematics

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