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The following are excerpts from the press release.  To read the entire article, click here: Draker Labs Selected to Monitor 14 Arizona Schools

Draker Labs, a leading provider of monitoring solutions for institutional and commercial solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, has been selected by Photovoltaic Systems Manufacturing (PSM) to monitor PV systems that will be installed at 14 Arizona-based schools. Phoenix-based Salt River Project (SRP), one of the nation’s largest public power providers, is funding the installation and maintenance of the rooftop-mounted PV systems. SRP will provide teachers with training and classroom materials related to renewable energy education. Data collected from Draker’s monitoring solutions will be available to students and faculty, allowing them to apply real-world data in a variety of classroom applications.

Each of the Arizona schools will be equipped with Draker’s Sentalis™ 1000PV platform, an end-to-end monitoring solution that includes both hardware and a web interface for data management and reporting. The Sentalis hardware includes a base station that aggregates data collected from instrumentation attached to solar panels and other PV equipment as well as a variety of environmental sensors that measure solar irradiance, wind conditions and ambient temperature, all of which impact energy production. The base station includes a ruggedized datalogger from Campbell Scientific®, one of the most trusted names in field instrumentation, which collects data before transmitting it to Draker’s secure, remote servers for processing. 

Draker CEO Chach Curtis added that, “we are very pleased to have been selected by PSM and look forward to supporting the project’s educational and environmental goals. Draker has deep experience in academic settings and has already been deployed at a number of institutions, including the largest solar PV array installed at a North American university.”