Campbell Scientific Concentrated-Solar-Power Monitoring Package CSP100
• Turn-key automated data-acquisition system specifically designed to meet CAISO meteorological station requirements of concentrated-solar-power generating facilities
• Recommended for assessing power-plant performance
• Field-ready, with features to minimize installation time and field wiring errors.
• Sensors, communications, mounting, and power supply are customizable
• Acts as single point data gateway for environmental, inverter, and meter data
• With CR1000 data logger
• Typically measures:
- Direct Normal Irradiance (DNI)
- Diffuse Horizontal Irradiance (DHI)
- Global Horizontal Irradiance (GHI)
- Wind speed
- Wind direction
- Air temperature
- Relative humidity
- Barometric pressure
- Precipitation
- Solar position
• Complies with Modbus, DNP3, CANbus, and PakBus protocols
• Supports RS-485, fiber, TCP/IP, cellular, or satellite communications
• 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
• Reference design: “Solar Resource and Meteorological Project (SOLRMAP)”, NREL
• Provides a battery back system that allows data collection during power outages and network failure
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