Eos –Gate Installation and operation manual
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9 System operation and monitoring
9.1 Safety recommendations
Eos-Gate together with a Web Portal solution allows to monitor photovoltaic plant’s status and
history. According to the plant’s status actions may be taken to solve problems at the installation
plant level. The relevant countermeasures are out of the scope of this manual, because they are
related to the plant maintenance at the electrical level.
As a general guideline, only authorized personnel with the appropriate skills to operate with high
voltage installations, with adequate protection devices and with a first class knowledge of safety
prescriptions and relevant rules and guidelines, in observance of Country specific laws and
prescriptions can operate on a photovoltaic installation.
IMPORTANT SAFETY PRESCRIPTIONS
The manufacturer decline every direct or indirect
responsibility for the consequences for the missing
observance of the above mentioned prescriptions and for
every wrong or improper uses of the equipment
Read carefully!
9.2 Choose the right monitoring solution
The purposes of the monitoring solution in place are essentially two:
1. Provide the user with relevant data to estimate the plant’s efficiency and how well it is
performing
2. Provide the user with alarms and events useful to plan fast counter-measures for problems
and activate maintenance policies based on predictive strategies
9.2.1 Performance and alarm monitoring
The Eos-Gate allows to interface the Eos-Array / Eos-Array Lite solution with the Fat Spaniel®
Monitoring Portal providing the user with a turnkey solution for PV plant monitoring.
For the details refer to the relevant datasheets and manuals for the Eos-Array / Eos-Array Lite
products and the documentation about Fat Spaniel® photovoltaic monitoring solutions.
