Datalogging Equipment

Data Monitoring Equipment: The Fronius DATCOM system

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Fronius offers the most robust data monitoring and analysis package available, and has a wide array of components to assist you in collecting information about your system's performance. The Fronius data monitoring system, also known as the DATCOM system, helps you keep track of information such as cumulative energy output, system voltage, and irradiance, just to name a few parameters.

Installers and homeowners find this information helpful in analyzing their system's performance over extended periods to ensure their system is operating as advertised, and to corroborate the amount of energy sold back to the utility. Public facilities use this information to display system performance to the general public, while schools use the DATCOM system to help with science curricula and educational projects and to compare their systems with those in other cities.

Comparable systems of this sophistication can cost several thousand dollars more, and often don't give you the PV-specific analysis tools. The DATCOM system's combination of performance and price makes it the best value in data monitoring available.

The DATCOM system's features include:

Solar.Web – Free Web-Based Data Hosting for Remote System Access and Analysis

Solar.access   – PC Based Software for Complete Data Monitoring

Automatic Download of Data

Energy & Service Reports Sent via E-Mail

Personalized Web Page

The DATCOM components include:

FRONIUS Datalogger Pro Card / Box
The brain of the operation.  The Datalogger Pro stores data from up to 100 inverters and 10 Sensor Cards / Boxes, along with your programmed sensor constants and other information.

FRONIUS Datalogger Easy Card / Box
The Datalogger Easy stores data from one inverter and one Sensor Card / Box, along with your programmed sensor constants and other information.

FRONIUS COM Card
The COM Card is communications hardware that is installed directly into your FRONIUS inverter in the same way a Plug-n-Play card is installed in your PC. Every inverter needs a COM Card in order to communicate to the Datalogger to allow you to receive your data. 

FRONIUS Solar.access
The software that brings it all together. FRONIUS Solar.access offers a myriad of tools to provide users with the ability for casual data viewing or sophisticated mathematical analysis. The software also provides users with the ability to change certain inverter settings.

FRONIUS Datalogger Web

The network-compatible Fronius Datalogger Web is the cornerstone for comprehensive PV system monitoring. It can be easily integrated into existing network structures via an Ethernet interface, opening up numerous channels for data communication:

Full system control via the PC. In combination with the Fronius Solar.access software, Fronius Datalogger Web provides full setting options and data preparation for the PV system onsite via a PC.

Multi-user capability within the local network. Several users can access important system information simultaneously via a separate website – using a browser that is independent of the operating system.

Real-time data available online. For the first time, real-time as well as archived PV system data can be accessed worldwide via the bi-directional connection between Fronius Datalogger Web and the Fronius Solar.web online service.

Fronius Datalogger Web is fully compatible with all Fronius products (inverters, DATCOM components, software programs). A Fronius COM card for the inverter is required for operation.