Agri-PV refers to a method of simultaneously using land for agricultural crop production and PV power production. Agri-PV technology has developed dynamically in recent years and has spread to almost all regions of the world.
Together with SunBioSys, a partner company from the Netherlands, EcoPhi is developing an automated monitoring and control system for such plants. Combining both agriculture and electricity production on the same land automatically results in conflicting goals, as both agricultural production and electricity generation can be optimized. Therefore, intelligent monitoring and control mechanisms are needed to maximize the overall yield
What EcoPhi does
EcoPhi is responsible for the development of the remote monitoring and control system, which can be adapted to different variations and sizes of Agri-PV plants. The operation of the systems depends on several external factors, which have to be handled by the monitoring and control system. With the remote monitoring and control system, the plant can be automatically controlled on-site depending on the weather and crop data, e.g. the tilt of the solar modules can be changed dynamically if the plants need more sun or shadow. All data is transmitted via the mobile data network or Wi-Fi and stored locally. This allows to also track systems also in remote areas. Settings and controls can always be changed from remote via an online dashboard.
