Renewable Energy Monitoring Examples

Renewable Energy Monitoring

Omni Instruments provides a range of sensors and systems suitable for measuring and recording renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and wave energy, and also the power generated by such systems. We can also provide performance measurements so that input and output energy can be corellated.

Solar Energy
We can provide sensors for solar radiation, incoming global radiation, UV and infrated light spectrums. We have built many systems for monitoring solar panel arrays, measuring the incoming solar radiation, panel temperature, AC and DC  voltage, AC and DC current, and KWH. using our GPRS enabled data acquistion units we can also send this data in real time to a web interface where users can view the real time staus and historical perfomance of one or more sites.

Wind Energy
For wind generation projects we can provide solid state wind speed and direction sensors, including advanced sensors with 3D wind profiling. We also offer small weather stations for hire for investigating suitable wind generation sites. For the assessment of turbine performance we have sensors for the measurement of vibration, acceleration and 3D motion. As with solar systems we also provide complete systems measuring DC and AC output current/voltage.

Wave Energy
For wave energy projects we can provide sensors for measuring water depth, wave force, x,y,z acceleration and 3D motion. We have also built subsea systems for measuring and logging this data.