klaud
Increase your system’s energy
yield with monitoring solutions.
Make the most of your energy
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Collect, store, and
view your data.
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Solar monitoring solutions
Schneider ElectricTM provides innovative photovoltaic (PV) solutions that give you world-class, reliable
performance. We are committed to providing outstanding solar solutions, products, and services.
Schneider Electric Solar Business
As the global specialist in energy management, Schneider Electric provides complete photovoltaic solutions for
any size installation, from grid-tie residential rooftops and utility-scale farms to off-grid solar and battery backup
applications. Our innovative products help you to get the most efficient solar harvest from your installation, and
you benefit from having a single supplier for all of your components. Our products and solutions are present at
every link in the energy chain and contribute to your total energy savings.
Telvent/Smart Infrastructure
Peace of mind is critical when overseeing operations, and our monitoring solutions are designed to maximize
uptime and keep your equipment running at optimized costs. Because storing electricity is still not efficient or
cost-effective, we must optimize renewable generation and eliminate waste. To do this, we must use smart
solutions that better monitor and better control the output. Our cutting-edge weather forecasting solutions
support load model integration and solar prediction applications.
Schneider Electric
is the global
leader in energy
management.
What is klaud?
klaud is a flexible and easy to configure solar monitoring system for large commercial plants and small groundmounted systems. It incorporates real-time data acquisition, reports, and alarm services. klaud is easy and
quick to install. Its high system performance provides you with fast interface responses. You can access your
data via any device with a web browser.
Our innovative
products help
you get the
most efficient
solar harvest.
Collect, store,
and view your data.
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Monitoring and optimizing
your solar system
klaud collects data points from your solar system and translates the data into useful information to help you
make optimization decisions.
KPI Monitoring
Monitoring is vital to ensure your solar system is operating at full capacity. The data that klaud collects is quick
to retrieve and is presented visually to help you analyze easily.
• Compare your real-time and historical data to your KPIs.
• Quickly visualize key information on your customized dashboard.
• Retrieve fast, real-time data — 1000 points of data in one second.
• Retrieve fast, historical data — a month’s worth of data in seven seconds.
• Project your real and expected power based on historical data.
• Generate and download detailed reports.
Weather Capabilities
Weather can drastically affect solar system performance. klaud incorporates weather forecasting so you can
predict system output changes before they happen.
• Visualize real-time weather patterns near your system.
• Forecast hourly, daily, and seasonally.
• Rely on a staff of 50 meteorologists for live support.
• Receive alerts tied to the National Weather Center watches and warnings including lighting strikes.
Alarms and notifications
Built-in alarms in klaud take the pressure off you to find trouble spots. Klaud will automatically notify you to
correct an error and return your system to its optimized state.
• Automatically receive emails generated from your customized alarm and notification settings.
• Quickly respond to system errors.
• See the exact location of trouble spots.
Accessibility
All web browsers on all mobile devices can access klaud, allowing you to monitor
your solar system whenever you like.
• Access your information anywhere, anytime.
• Monitor multiple systems, and summarize or compare systems.
• Interface with klaud’s mobile platforms which are easy to maneuver
through while on the go.
• Integrate with enterprise systems like SQL, GIS, CMMS.
• Take advantage of klaud’s 3D rendering capabilities.
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System information
at a glance:
Weather
Real and
expected power
Green equivalence
Inverter information
Current devices
Energy meters
Combination boxes
klaud components
klaud is divided into functional services that assume different tasks, simplifying and streamlining the system’s
data flow.
klaud real-time acts as a data concentrator. Different importers inject data from various sources (modbus,
OPC, PI, OASyS). All information is grouped in one place.
klaud historical exports real-time values to a native database or Microsoft® SQL Server 2008. For every
designated interval, real-time value is sampled and stored with basic statistics (minimum, maximum,
average, quality) for later queries.
klaud notifications periodically examine certain conditions which are defined in configuration scripts in C#
(NET). If a condition is met, it triggers alarms and warnings that can be distributed via email, depending on
specific time ranges.
klaud reporting services regularly query the historical data, and generate reports and summaries from
templates, which are sent by email to designated recipients.
klaud historical
klaud reporting
Takes sample of
real-time values and
stores them in a native
or Microsoft SOL
Server 2008 database
Generates automatic
reports from templates
and regularty sends
email to designated
recipients
klaud realtime
klaud notifications
Acts as concentrator
of data from different
sources and provides
current values at
high speed
Executes scripts in C#
(NET) to evaluate any
condition and send
messages, warnings,
and alarms via email
klaud architecture
klaud connects with plant software to bring
clients the information they need.
Plants
Services
Clients
Modbus TCP importer
DNP importer
OsiSoft PI importer
klaud
OASyS
OASyS importer
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Collect real-time data
anywhere, anytime.
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Building trust through
proven performance
Project reference:
Shoe Show Corporate Headquarters, 5.2 MW
Founded in 1960 in Kannapolis, NC, Shoe Show, Inc. is the largest independent shoe retailer in the U.S.
with 1,132 locations in 37 states. Shoe Show, Inc. installed a 5.2 MW rooftop solar system at its corporate
headquarters — one of the largest rooftop solar systems installed in the U.S.
Schneider Electric was chosen by SunEnergy1 to supply Schneider Electric GT500 MVX grid-tie solar inverters.
SunEnergy also chose to use klaud for PV plants — a special application based on the klaud framework. klaud
for PV plants can manage multiple — PV plants. It shows their KPI data, represents trend curves, displays
device warnings and alarms, provides detailed information for every component in every plant, and generates
detailed reports and queries easily.
klaud for PV plants provides an easy way to browse plants and devices and measures using a hierarchical tree
based on your configuration and user permissions. klaud for PV plants is secure. A set of user and groups
allows users to administer plants, devices, and point level access. Client-server communications can be
encrypted to protect your data.
Project Type:
Large commercial
rooftop solar
system
Location:
Concord,
North Carolina
Commissioned:
January 2012
Number of
Buildings:
One, 1,000,000 ft2
(304,800 m2)
Project Size:
5.2 MW
Applications:
• GT500 MVX
grid-tie solar
inverters (9 total)
• Square D™ DC
combiner boxes
• klaud for PV
plants solution
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For more information, visit
www.schneider-electric.com/us
and enter key code d503u.
Document Number 0100BR1305
Schneider Electric USA
1415 S. Roselle Road
Palatine, IL 60067
Tel: 847-397-2600
Fax: 847-925-7500
www.schneider-electric.com/us
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