Solar-Log and Amazon’s Alexa – voice activated solar plant monitoring

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Solar Data System, Inc. announces Solar-Log WEB Enerest upcoming compatibility with Amazon Alexa’s Voice ServiceSolar-Log WEB Enerest will allow PV plant owners to ask Alexa about their solar PV plant status. Plant owners can ask questions like, “Alexa, how is my plant?” or “Alexa, how much money have I earned with my plant?”.  Alexa will even know the answer to questions like, “when is the best time to vacuum?”. The answer will not be based on how dirty the floor is, but rather on the current amount of available solar power and the expected energy production surplus over the next two days. With this new Solar-Log WEB Enerest function, plant monitoring becomes simpler and more intuitive for plant owners.
 
Solar-Log Skill will be available in Amazon’s Alexa Skills store beginning June 2018 in both English and German.
 
About Solar Data Systems, Inc. and Solare Datensysteme GmbH
Solar Data Systems, Inc. is a fully owned subsidiary of Solare Datensysteme GmbH, the manufacturer of Solar-Log web-enabled monitoring and metering solutions for photovoltaic plants. Solar-Log is a global market leader with over 275,000 plants monitored worldwide, with a generating power of 12.3 GWp. The Solar-Log product family monitors plant performance, integrates yield forecasting, provides real-time error detection, automatic status information, and offers revenue-grade metering for incentive reporting. This industry-leading functionality maximizes PV plant performance, optimizes self-consumption, offers intelligent grid feed-in controls, and best-in-class PV plant fleet management. Solare Datensysteme GmbH is based in Binsdorf, Germany and is a subsidiary of BKW AG (Bern, Switzerland) – a global company for energy and infrastructure.