Platform - Data Acquisition

The Locus Energy platform acquires performance data from a range of renewable technologies – solar electric, solar thermal, wind and geothermal systems are all currently supported. Data collection is supported through the following devices:

Locus Energy hardware - LGate 100

  • Revenue-grade (ANSI certified) single-phase energy meter, datalogger and web gateway
  • Integrated demand (AC consumption) and small-scale solar thermal monitoring
  • Measures output from any inverter
  • 120 volt configuration installs in less than 30 minutes
  • Remote firmware upgrades
  • Plug and play network configuration
  • Ethernet, Modbus, USB, Serial and pulse connectivity

Supported third-party hardware

  • Single phase and three phase revenue-grade power meters
  • Inverters
    • Commercial-scale
    • Residential-scale
    • Microinverters
  • DC string combiner boxes
  • Weather stations
  • Solar hot water and hot air controllers
  • Various dataloggers supported through Modbus, Serial, USB, Ethernet and Pulse connections