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All-out Irradiation Sensor
CaptPro is a breakthrough sensing device that measures global, diffuse, and direct solar irradiation without sun trackers or other moving parts.
In the most advanced version, CaptPro+, it also measures the albedo and delivers measurements of the solar radiation falling on fixed or tracked PV panels providing in real time the optimal production curve of the PV plant both for traditional and bifacial PV modules.
- Small, rugged, portable and ligthweigth
- Extremely easy to install and to maintain
- Polar alignment and tilt-plane independent (only CaptPro version)
- Usable under any weather conditions
- Natively designed to be configured in wireless distributed sensing networks delivering highly accurate irradiation assessment and no need for routine calibration
Irradiation monitoring made simple, accurate, affordable
Its game-changing design and proprietary algorithm summarize in a single self-standing device the output of pyranometers and pyrheliometers, while eliminating the need for extra equipment, such as solar trackers.
Cut costs, grow profits
By dramatically boosting the fine-grained localization of system failures, inefficiencies and production drops with unmatched, pin-point detail, CaptPro allows to maximize energy production, reduce O&M costs, and to increase profitability for investors, owners, and managers of PV plants.
At a cost sensibly lower than a single monitoring station featuring pyranometers, pyrheliometers and sun trackers, and with dramatically lower maintenance cost, a wireless network of CaptPro nodes provides +300% more accurate information about plant performance, 10x more precise localization of faults, and the detection of production drops of the order of 1%, thus enabling an increase of up to +5% in energy yield.
Applications
- PV plant performance monitoring
and yield forecasting - Solar energy site prospecting
CaptPro has been
- calibrated by the World Radiation Centre
- tested by Enel Green Power, SUPSI, DLR
CaptPro is a sunto patented technology.
Specifications
| Digital Output | RS485 Modbus, Serial Output |
| Response Time | 1 s |
| Sensitivity | 1 W |
| Accuracy | 3% (value not affected by tracking errors typical of pyrheliometers’ measurements) |
| Dynamic Range | 0-2000 W |
| Mounting Zenithal Tilt Tolerance | ± 5 degree |
| Mounting Azimuthal Tilt Tolerance | ± 180 degree |
| Field of View | 3π Rad |
| Max Data Rate (complete dataset) | 1 Hz |
| Operating Temperature Range | -30°C ÷ 85°C |
| Humidity Range | 0-100% |
| International Protection | 67 |
| Measure Stability | >99% per year |
| Power Supply | 5-12 VDC or 10-24 VDC |
| Max Power Consumption | 0.1 W |
| Weight (without cable) | 200 gr |
| 10 m long cable Weight | 400 gr |