AVEVA and Helios IoT Systems collaborate to empower the solar energy industry

AVEVA has established technology cooperation for operations and maintenance with Helios IoT Systems, a specialized business with domain experience in the renewable energy sector (O&M). AVEVA Insight will now include performance calculations unique to the solar energy industry as part of the collaboration.

“Industry-specific asset content combined with actionable analytics delivers closed-loop remediation that drives efficiency and safety. With our heritage of open access to information, strong visualization, and comprehensive analytics combined with the Apollo domain expertise for solar assets, we can provide critical operational intelligence to deliver value. With this partnership with Apollo, solar energy customers can accelerate their digital transformation, fast-track their sustainability ambitions and derive valuable performance improvements,” said Kim Custeau, Senior Vice President, APM business, AVEVA.

“Our partnership with AVEVA is a major milestone in building a long-term relationship in delivering a best of class solution to the emerging market of renewable energy enterprises. Our technology partnership with AVEVA extends our reach in global markets and expedites new technology product adoption to benefit customers. Integration of our patented digital twin solution, Apollo, with AVEVA Insight will help us deliver an innovative, next-generation analytics solution to empower solar companies to optimize assets, increase yield and improve plant performance.” said Nitin Tappe, CEO, Helios.

Apollo’s rich content combined with AVEVA Insight’s scalable AI and analytics will provide solar energy providers with deeper, personalized, and aggregated information to help them optimize their operations. As a result of the integrated solution’s AI and physics-based predictions, firms employing the combined solution should expect faster troubleshooting and root cause investigation, more targeted maintenance, and a reduction in lost power. This will be accomplished through increasing the visibility of their assets’ projections, KPIs, measurements, and performance. Customers will get access to the broad port network via AVEVA Connect, the company’s cloud platform.

AVEVA Insight is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) system for gathering, storing, and visualizing industrial data in order to make faster, more effective business choices using a patented self-service AI and analytics suite. Apollo is a one-of-a-kind energy solution that uses patented domain-specific digital twin technology, health models, and specialized dashboards to streamline O&M activities, benchmark asset performance, manage and improve collaboration, increase yield, and improve plant performance for solar portfolios and assets.