In Solar Tracking installations, choosing the right wireless solution is critical to ensuring reliable performance under all operating conditions. This is especially true when your project involves massive installations with hundreds to thousands of solar trackers. As projects grow in size, the reliability and scalability challenges grow as well.
Therefore, it is essential to find a trusted wireless partner with expert knowledge in wireless technologies to support you through the full installation process.
Radiocrafts provides that expert knowledge and has used our long experience in Solar Tracking to develop a long range Sub-GHz Mesh module, RIIM, tailored towards this market!
Radiocrafts has supported leading solar tracker manufacturers from all over the world to commission projects using RIIM, from large scale solar tracker installations in India all the way to Europe and the United States.
So what is the big fuss about RIIM? Why are the large Solar Tracking companies moving from ZigBee, Wi-SUN, and LoRa to RIIM?
A few of the benefits include:
- Network can have up to a few thousand trackers per gateway
- Long range and solar field wide coverage including in areas with uneven terrain
- Great radio signal penetration through tracker metal beams for higher reliability and range
- Efficient downlink communication to control trackers, for example, to move the panels into safe position during high winds or hailstorms. Move all panels into safe mode within 1 second.
- Fewer communication mesh hops in the system offering lower latency
- Highly reliable communication of 99.99% successful transmissions including in installations where several RIIM networks are operating in close proximity to each other.
In addition, Radiocrafts has partnered with Advantech to develop a brand-new gateway platform for Solar Tracking.
The ECU-150 compact, high performance gateway is paired with our wireless RIIM Sub-GHz mesh radio solution. This complete solutions offers rugged, industrial-grade reliability to withstand the toughest solar deployment environments plus all the benefits mentioned above from the RIIM radio.
This state-of-the-art solar tracking solution ensures you get dependable performance, no matter the scale of your deployment.
Read more about the benefits of RIIM for the solar tracking market in our latest Wireless Technology Selection Guide For Solar Tracking where we compare RIIM with other popular technologies used in this industry including LoRa, Wi-SUN, and ZigBee.
Interested in testing RIIM for your own installation? Get your hands on a Solar Development Kit from Radiocrafts. Contact us at sales@radiocrafts.com to learn more!