Managing, monitoring, evidencing solar system productivity - REMOT

太阳能用于生产性用途，如在小企业或家庭中研磨玉米或冷藏农产品，可以显著提高非洲贫困的离网社区的农业生产力和社会经济生活水平。与典型的家庭系统相比，所需的功率输出通常更大且相当昂贵，因此大多数客户更喜欢基于信用的支付模式，并需要可靠的系统性能。太阳能配电公司已经进入了这个快速增长的市场，但市场渗透受到广泛地理区域的手动太阳能系统性能监控以及管理支付的基本系统的阻碍。用于自动支付管理、实时性能监控和预防性故障排除的数字系统，可以确保快速有效的系统维护和系统可靠性，并为太阳能分销商和开发金融机构提供数据证据基础，以真正加速生产性使用太阳能系统的采用。我们在TRL 7的远程能源管理和监控技术（REMOT）目前部署在在8个SSAf国家安装了1500个太阳能光伏装置，其中1,100个正在进行我们的第三代硬件的现场试验。硬件是市场上唯一一个完全在非洲乌干达新工厂制造的设备。与我们的硬件创新相匹配，我们在IUK比赛中的愿景是开发：1。为主要客户（太阳能配电公司）和次要客户（国际开发金融机构和保险公司）提供新的创新软件能力2。转型的软件即服务订阅模式，使REMOT更加经济实惠和易于访问3。与现有和新客户试用该软件，为100万美元的A轮投资提供证据基础。重要的是，通过整个项目，我们将影响约74，769人，每年产生452，600千瓦时的太阳能。该项目后，我们的短期目标是在15个非洲国家和1个非洲国家建立200个B2B客户群，到2025年，将有100万人受益于诊所、学校、小企业和家庭。

Solar energy for productive uses like grinding corn or refrigerating produce in small businesses or homes can significantly improve agricultural productivity and socio-economic living standards for poor African off-grid communities. The required power output compared to typical home systems is generally greater and quite expensive, so most customers prefer credit-based payment models and require reliable system performance. Solar distribution companies have tapped into this fast-growing market but market penetration is hindered by manual solar system performance monitoring across wide geographies, and rudimentary systems for managing payments. Digital systems for automatic payment management, real-time performance monitoring, and pre-emptive troubleshooting, can ensure quick and effective system maintenance and system reliability and provide the data evidence base for solar distributors and development finance institutions to really accelerate the uptake of productive use solar systems.Our Remote Energy Management and Monitoring Technology (REMOT) at TRL7 is currently deployed in \>1500 solar PV installations across 8 SSAf countries with field trials underway of our 3rd generation hardware in \>1,100 of these. The hardware is the only unit on the market which is entirely fabricated in Africa in our new factory in Uganda. Matching our hardware innovation, our vision under this IUK competition is to develop:1. New innovative software capability for primary (solar distribution companies) and secondary (international development finance institutions and insurance company) clients2. Transformational software-as-a service subscription model to make REMOT even more affordable and accessible3. Trial the software with existing and new clients to provide the evidence base for a Series A investment raise of $1 millionImportantly, through the total project we will impact an estimated 74,769 persons and enable 452,600 kWh solar energy generated per year.Our short term vision after this project is to reach a client base of 200 B2B clients across 15 African countries and \>1,000,000 beneficiaries in health clinics, schools, small businesses and households by 2025\.