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Monitor your solar PV system

Please visit Solar pv monitoring system of IAMMETER-cloud to login the demo account of IAMMETER-cloud and understand all functions of solar PV monitoring

It will display different UI if you access to demo link via computer or smart phone.

You will see same UI with IAMMETER web portal if you access to the demo link by computer. You will see same UI with IAMMETER app if you access to the demo link by mobile phone. We recommend you to access via computer so you can see more functions and reports.

1. Introduction

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Our solar PV monitoring solution includes,

  1. Bi-directional Wi-Fi power meter: single phase energy meter(WEM3080) and 3 phase energy meter(WEM3080T).

  2. Solar PV monitoring system: IAMMETER-cloud or IAMMETER-docker

Bi-directional Wi-Fi energy meter

WEM3080(single-phase energy meter) and WEM3080T(The three-phase energy meter also supports split-phase usage which means it can be used as three single-phase energy meters.) can be used to monitor your solar PV system. Both single-phase energy meter and three-phase meter are bi-directional. If the energy meter is installed on the grid side, both export and import energy parameters (consume power, feed-in power, energy consumed from the grid, energy exported to the grid) can be measured simultaneously.

If your grid system and inverter are both single-phase, you can use one three-phase energy meter (recommend) or two single-phase energy meters to monitor your solar PV system. Compared to using two single-phase energy meters, using one three-phase energy meter to monitor the solar PV system has such advantages.

  1. Support net energy metering: this 3 phase energy meter supports both normal metering mode and net energy metering mode.
  2. All three-phase power measurement is sampled at the same time. So there is no synchronized problem when calculate the load power by the inverter power and grid power.

More high-light features about the 3 phase energy meter ,please refer to

The key feature about the three-phase energy meter

Use the 3 phase energy meter the way you prefer

Solar PV monitoring system from IAMMETER-Cloud

IAMMETER is our online energy monitoring system, that can monitor your solar PV system by its web portal and mobile APP. Key features related to IAMMETER solar PV monitoring system are,

  1. Monitor the realtime data: inverter power output, feed-in power(to grid),import energy (from grid), export energy(to grid) etc.
  2. Calculate the parameters: solar PV efficiency, self-consumption ratio, etc.
  3. various report that help you analyze your analyze your solar pv system:help you analyze your solar pv system and improve its performance.

2. Install Wi-Fi energy meter in your solar PV system

2.1 Monitor only "From Grid" and "To Grid" energy in single phase system

You have a single-phase solar and grid system, and your intention is to measure the grid consumption as well as the energy exported to the grid . QuickStart for monitoring your solar PV system by WEM3080

By installing only one WEM3080 in your single phase solar PV system, you can monitor two-way power and energy , the energy consumed from grid and exported to grid simultaneously.

Wiring Diagram

Wiring diagram:monitor solar pv system by a single-phase power meter

2.2 Monitor both the single-phase solar and grid systems simultaneously

You have a single-phase solar and grid ,and you want to monitor both of the grid and the solar in your system.

Quick Start for monitoring your solar PV system by WEM3080T

By installing only one WEM3080T in your single phase solar PV system, and clamping the first CT onto grid, the second CT onto solar inverter side and the third CT onto load if applicable (you can also leave the third CT unclamped if not needed), you can monitor "From Grid" (the energy consumed from the grid), "To Grid" (the energy imported to the grid) and the energy produced by solar inverter. You will also see the direct self-use energy and the energy consumed by your load.

Wiring Diagram

Wiring diagram:monitor solar pv system by a 3 phase power meter

2.3 Monitor both grid and solar in split phase system

A split-phase or single-phase three-wire system is a prevalent type of single-phase electric power distribution in North America, commonly used in residential and light commercial applications. It involves supplying two 120 V AC lines to premises that are 180 degrees out of phase with each other concerning the neutral, along with a common neutral.

Because the two-phase output is balanced, measuring the inverter output can be accomplished using a single phase. This is achieved by configuring the meter to multiply the reading obtained from that single phase by two.

For more details ,please refer to Using a 3-Phase Energy Meter for Solar PV and Grid Consumption in a Split-Phase System

Split-Phase System Wiring

2.4 More wiring diagrams

There are also many other different applications in different solar PV system, such as three phase grid & three phase solar inverter, or three phase grid & single phase inverter etc. For more details, please refer to More wiring diagram in solar pv monitoring system

3. IAMMETER-cloud (solar PV monitoring application)

With solar PV monitoring application on IAMMETER-cloud, it can improve self-consumption ratio for maximize the ROI of your solar PV system.

See below pictures for key functions of solar PV monitoring application on IAMMETER-cloud.

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Real time monitoring (solar yield energy, feed-in power, inverter power, import from grid energy ,export to grid energy, solar pv efficiency)

Display the chart of inverter power and feed-in power.

Display the energy flow chart of the solar PV system.

Display the energy consumption, solar yield energy, bill, self-consumption rate, and solar PV efficiency in one diagram.

solar yield energy, feed-in power, inverter power, import from grid energy ,export to grid energy, solar pv efficiency

Display the solar PV yield energy (hourly, daily,monthly, yearly).

Solar yield energy = direct use energy + export to enegy energy. This diagram shows the specific value of the direct ues energy and export energy.

solar yield energy, direct self-use energy, export to grid energy

Consumption energy= direct use energy + import from grid energy.

This diagram shows the specific value of the direct ues energy and import from grid energy.

energy consumption = direct self-use energy + grid consumption energy

This diagram shows both import energy and export energy together.

epxort to grid energy and import from grid energy

Report: Energy Usage and Billing

This report helps you analyze your energy consumption and electricity bills. Different electricity price plan have been supported in IAMMETER-Cloud, such as fix rate, tiered rate,time of use (TOU) rate and advanced TOU rate.

report of energy usage and billing in solar pv system,support many electricity price plan

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Report: Bills and Income

This report helps you analyze both expense of grid energy consumption and income of solar yield energy.

reports of bills and income for your solar pv system

Report: Bill & Income & Saving

This report shows the total benifit of your solar PV system. solar yield enegy=direct self use energy + export to grid energy . so the total benifit= direct self use energy * electricity price + export to grid energy * feed-in electricity price .

This report will also help you to calculate the self-consumption rate of your solar PV system.

Hourly

report : total benifit of your solar pv system

Daily

self-consumption rate of your solar pv system

Monthly

monthly report of your solar pv system

Maintain more than one solar PV sites

If you want to monitor more than one solar PV site ,please try this function .

Sort and compare more than one solar PV site in the solar analysis

Sort all the solar pv site in one view

4 IAMMETER-docker

If you want to deploy the solar PV monitorong system on your own server, we also provide a self-hosting system, IAMMETER-docker.

Please visit below links for introduction of IAMMETER-docker.

Basic tutorial of IAMMETER-docker

Advanced Feature of IAMMETER-docker

5 Integrate IAMMETER energy meter to third-party platforms

In addition to IAMMETER-cloud and IAMMETER-Docker, you can also configure IAMMETER products to upload data to other open source platforms or customers' own systems.

Integrate IAMMETER energy meter to third-party platforms other than Home assistant

IAMMETER products can upload energy data to customer`s own server by MQTT, tcp, http,https or TLS.

Please refer to Integrate IAMMETER energy meter to third-party platforms

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