PV maintenance and operation management

Scalable VPN server and robust cellular routers

“We’ve acquired a large housing society as maintenance customer. Different routers have been installed there, which have transmitted data very unreliable. We are retrofitting these plants with EBW-H100 cellular routers at the moment and I have to say that the INSYS routers are running perfectly.“

Sascha Jakobs
service technician for many years at abakus solar AG

Benefits for abakus solar AG

  • Remote readout of PV data loggers and energy meters

  • Significant improvement of PV plant output

  • Perfect preparation of services

  • Saving of unnecessary travel

Many photovoltaic plants are inadequately maintained and deliver less output therefore than their technical potential would allow.

The abakus solar AG attends customers in industry, housing, municipality as well as operators of yield-oriented megawatt solar parks – and has the following requirements:

Cellular radio as well as connectivity and security services for remote maintenance and operation management must come frome one supplier:

  • Reliable and compact HSPA routers
  • Retrofittable in own and third-party plants (abolition of organically grown isolated solutions)
  • Encrypted and monitored connections
  • Online portal for VPN device and connectivity management

HSPA router EBW-H100

  • Professional IP routing
  • Dial-In and Dial-Out
  • Comprehensive security features (KRITIS-capable)
  • Easy to operate via web interface, file upload and command line (CLI)

icom Connectivity Suite – VPN

  • Highly available service for VPN interconnection
  • Configuration and administration of the VPN clients via online portal
  • Automated renewal of the certificates in freely definable cycles
  • Closed user groups that only authorised service employees can access the PV plants they have to attend
  • INSYS routers can be operated with standard IP configuration; the individualisation is carried out in the icom Connectivity Suite – VPN  via online management

“We’ve acquired a large housing society as maintenance customer. Different routers have been installed there, which have transmitted data very unreliable. We are retrofitting these plants with EBW-H100 cellular routers at the moment and I have to say that the INSYS routers are running perfectly.”

Sascha Jakobs, service technician for many years
abakus solar AG