Fat Spaniel Technologies, a market leader in monitoring and reporting services for distributed energy systems, announced the release of what it says is the world’s first open platform for building, sharing and running energy data applications.
Fat Spaniel’s Insight Platform(TM) provides an open information architecture that enables application developers, system integrators, equipment manufacturers and others in the renewable energy industry to extend their existing monitoring resources and develop new service capabilities.
"Insight Platform opens up Fat Spaniel’s market-leading technology to help our partners, customers and the developer community extend in-house monitoring systems, explore entirely new energy management capabilities, and create open integration across multiple vendors, hardware types, and distributed locations," said Chris Beekhuis, president and CTO of Fat Spaniel.
Fat Spaniel’s Insight Platform supports more than 125 renewable energy devices to deliver critical real-time and historical information about photovoltaic, solar water heating, and wind energy system performance.
Fat Spaniel said an open platform for renewable energy data collection, exchange and visualization, Insight Platform’s open architecture will enable applications such as Monitored Device Integration, Weather Data Integration, Platform Back-end Support, Customer Support, Widgets and Billing.
Fat Spaniel worked with a variety of partners in order to refine the Insight Platform technology. Current Insight Platform development program participants include such companies as:
- Advanced Energy http://www.aei.com
- Campbell Scientific http://www.campbellscientific.com
- CH2M HILL http://www.ch2m.com
- Echelon http://www.echelon.com
- Inovateus Development http://www.inovateus.com
- PV Powered http://www.pvpowered.com
- SatCon Technology http://www.satcon.com
- Solectria http://www.solren.com
About Fat Spaniel Technologies
Based in San Jose, Calif., Fat Spaniel Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of monitoring and reporting services for distributed, renewable energy systems–enabling efficient operations and maintenance, compelling web-based visualization, and accurate reporting. Fat Spaniel’s services are based on Insight Platform, the industry’s first open platform for multi-vendor system and portfolio monitoring. Users of Fat Spaniel’s services include system owners, system integrators, PPA service providers, utilities, inverter manufacturers, project financing firms, REC traders and regulatory agencies. The company specializes in renewable energy systems including solar electric, solar water heating and small wind. Fat Spaniel products are presently deployed in over 1,500 locations in 13 countries worldwide. Fat Spaniel is funded by Chrysalix Energy, Element Partners, Ignition Partners, PCG Clean Energy & Technology Fund and Applied Ventures, LLC, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc.
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