Insight Platform 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.

"As the industry continues to expand, we hear an increasing need for standardized, powerful management capabilities that bring the power of information technology to the renewable energy business. We are proud to be providing a single platform for unleashing innovation and streamlining operations in this high-growth industry."

Capabilities:

+ Fat Spaniel's Insight Platform supports the largest number of renewable energy devices in the industry + more than 125 different device types + to deliver critical real-time and historical information about photovoltaic, solar water heating, and wind energy system performance.

Through Insight Platform, energy application developers can build full-featured clean energy and environmental web applications without having to deal with the headaches of building and maintaining an expensive service infrastructure. Providing a universal platform for high quality renewable energy data collection, exchange and visualization, Insight Platform's open architecture will enable applications such as:

+ Monitored Device Integration: Capture events and status data from monitored devices in solar electric systems such as inverters, trackers and environmental sensors, which can export data to a standard Insight Platform data interface while still leveraging their own built-in sensors, data loggers and communications equipment.

+ Weather Data Integration: Import data from third party sources, such as a provider of weather data, into Insight Platform to allow calculating performance ratios comparing how much energy a solar system is actually generating vs. how much energy it should be generating.

+ Platform Back-end Support: Use Fat Spaniel's data infrastructure to power proprietary third-party energy applications, with user views that can be branded according to that third party's requirements.

+ Customer Support: Use inverter-monitored PV system faults to automatically create a customer support case record in a help desk application.

+ Widgets and Mash-ups: Easily embed Fat Spaniel web objects + including widgets such as charts or tables + in third-party web sites to create custom views using dynamic Web 2.0 mechanisms.

+ Billing: Use data retrieved from Fat Spaniel's data warehouse using a standard "Get Monitored Information" data interface to generate customer invoices based on energy usage.

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