Water Heater Application Interface

Integrated into the IMEON OS. ONE operating system, the “Water Heater” is an innovative application developed by IMEON ENERGY and accessible free of charge to owners of an Imeon hybrid inverter.

In order to amortize the solar installation for self-consumption as quickly as possible, it is essential to self-consume the maximum of the energy produced by the photovoltaic installation since the electricity exported to the public electricity distribution network is worth very little, if anything at all. The “Water Heater” application has been developed to maximize the rate of self-consumption precisely. The operating principle is simple: when an excess of solar production is detected by the Smart-Meter (solar production is in this case greater than the electricity consumption of the building), the IMEON inverter will use its internal relay to remotely switch on the home’s water heater, connected to the inverter’s relay by the installer beforehand. The water heater will therefore start up and use the solar kWh which, without activating the application, would have been exported into the public grid. This principle, also called “load control”, allows creating a “solar off-peak hour”, a time when cheap solar energy is being used. This application works for conventional electric water heaters; it should not be used with thermodynamic water heaters which heating cycles must not be interrupted. For proper operation, it is necessary to comply with the wiring recommendations indicated in the official IMEON ENERGY’s documentation for this feature. The abovementioned wiring may vary depending on the type of electricity tariffs (for example peak and off-peak hours in France).

Much more than a manufacturer of solar hybrid inverters, IMEON ENERGY is constantly developing new software applications and working on projects related to artificial intelligence in order to improve the performance of its solutions and the satisfaction of owners of IMEON hybrid inverters.

Let us know if you’d like to learn more about our smart solutions using contact@imeon-energy.com.

Smart Lighting Application Interface

Integrated into the IMEON OS. ONE operating system, the “Smart Lighting” is an innovative application developed by IMEON ENERGY and accessible free of charge to owners of an Imeon hybrid inverter.

Being able to communicate with the devices from Philips Hue family of light fixtures creates a great way to pass information to users of IMEON hybrid solar inverters with the use of light!

The configuration interface of the “Smart Lighting” application allows easy and intuitive setup. In this interface, the user can program the behaviour of the lights in function of the following parameters:

• State of charge of the battery bank connected to the IMEON inverter: it is possible to change the colour of the lamp to green, orange or red depending on the state of charge of the storage.
• Average power consumption over the last three minutes: it is possible to change colour of the lamp to green, orange or red depending on the power consumed by the home during this period.
• Self-production rate (or autonomy) over the last three minutes: it is possible to change colour of the lamp to green, orange or red depending on the self-production rate reached during this period.

The “Smart Lighting” application, developed by IMEON ENERGY teams, is a way of making the user aware of their consumption habits in order to encourage change! The mere fact of adding a solar installation already makes it possible to make savings on the electricity bills but the solar installations have the biggest impact if the users are consciously involved in optimizing their energy consumption. This process can be assisted if the solar system can communicate complex information in a straightforward way, triggering users to act accordingly, for instance by shifting the operation time of some devices during the day when production is optimal or even by double checking if all the non essential appliances are off.

Much more than a manufacturer of solar hybrid inverters, IMEON ENERGY is constantly developing new software applications and working on projects related to artificial intelligence in order to improve the performance of its solutions and the satisfaction of owners of IMEON hybrid inverters.

Let us know if you’d like to learn more about our smart solutions using contact@imeon-energy.com.

Intégrée au système d’exploitation IMEON OS. ONE, l’application « Forecast Consumption » est une réelle innovation développée par IMEON ENERGY et accessible gratuitement aux utilisateurs qui disposent d’un onduleur hybride IMEON.

Le fait de prévoir la consommation du site équipé d’un onduleur hybride IMEON est une fonctionnalité unique développée par IMEON ENERGY et rendue possible par l’utilisation de l’intelligence artificielle. Grâce à cette application, l’onduleur va enregistrer et apprendre, pendant une durée de sept jours minimum, les habitudes de consommation électrique des occupants du bâtiment. En fonction des données recueillis et calculées, l’onduleur IMEON pourra, si nécessaire, adapter son fonctionnement dans le but d’obtenir les meilleurs résultats possibles, en fonction des objectifs de l’utilisateur. L’onduleur IMEON est également capable de prévoir la production solaire grâce à l’application “Weather Coupling” qui fonctionne grâce au même principe d’apprentissage, aux prévisions météo recueillies via la connexion Web et à un ajustement de ces prévisions en fonction de l’historique de production réelle des panneaux solaires.

Les données recueillies et calculées par l’application “Forecast Consumption” sont partagées et servent au fonctionnement d’autres applications présentes dans l’interface IMEON OS. ONE. Par exemple, l’application “Smart Load” va planifier la mise en fonctionnement de différents appareils électriques en prenant en compte la prévision de consommation, la prévision de production, la puissance de chaque appareil ainsi que la durée d’un cycle de fonctionnement. Le but final est de mettre en fonctionnement ces appareils lorsqu’un excédent de production solaire est détecté afin de valoriser les kWh générés par l’installation photovoltaïque et d’optimiser les économies réalisées.

Bien plus qu’un simple fabricant d’onduleurs hybrides solaires, IMEON ENERGY développe en permanence de nouvelles applications et travaille sur des sujets liés à l’intelligence artificielle dans le but d’améliorer la performance de ses solutions et la satisfaction des utilisateurs d’onduleurs hybrides IMEON.

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Consumer Identification Application Interface

Integrated into the IMEON OS. ONE operating system, the “Consumer Identification” is an innovative application developed by IMEON ENERGY and accessible free of charge to owners of an Imeon hybrid inverter.

The innovation lies in the fact that this analysis is provided without the need to install specific sensors for each device, using Imeon to detect the unique electrical signature of the appliance. Each electronic load, when powered by an AC source creates a specific harmonic distortion of the AC waveform. The distortion can be detected and used to identify the particular appliance when it is switched on. Thanks to the use of this technique and without the need to add any hardware components, the Imeon inverters can now detect, measure and register not only the global electricity consumption of the installation site, but also the consumption of individual appliances.

The information can be extremely useful for owners planning on creating more energy efficient households, since it allows them to identify the appliances which consume the most power, to consider an upgrade or a replacement. Furthermore, the information concerning energy consumption of a particular device can influence the habits of its owner. If for instance a standby consumption of a TV amounts to a non-negligible value over a course of a month, the user may decide that it’s more interesting to switch it off completely.

Thanks to the “Consumer Identification” feature the household owners can become more conscious of their energy consumption patterns and achieve the energy autonomy with ease.

Much more than a manufacturer of solar hybrid inverters, IMEON ENERGY is constantly developing new software applications and working on projects related to artificial intelligence in order to improve the performance of its solutions and the satisfaction of owners of IMEON hybrid inverters.

Let us know if you’d like to learn more about our smart solutions using contact@imeon-energy.com.

But wait there’s more! Imeon inverters come equipped with a built-in webserver, which means that the inverters broadcast their own WiFi signal. After the system’s first startup one will notice that a new WiFi network with SSID: IMEON_serialnumber becomes available for connection. Upon connection, the inverter’s operating system OS. ONE becomes accessible remotely and what is more, if the inverter is connected to the internet via Ethernet or via WiFi, one can use IMEON’s own WiFi signal as a hotspot!

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IMEON ENERGY engineers have developed this application to ensure that the IMEON Hybrid Inverter complies with the regulations of certain countries that do not allow the injection of energy into the public grid.

When this application is active, the power generated by the solar installation will always be equal to or less than the power needed to power the electrical appliances and charge the batteries. In this way, there is never any surplus production to be exported to the public grid.

Contact us for more information about our applications: contact@imeon-energy.com.