CUSTOMER CASE STUDY
PV Hardware Cuts Solar Farm Deployment Time by 75% with ZEDEDA’s Edge Management Solution
One of the largest solar tracker manufacturers in the world, PV Hardware was scaling its global footprint. It needed a better way to provision, deploy, and orchestrate the edge nodes running its critical applications.
PV Hardware, headquartered in Spain, is the leading provider of innovative trackers, structures, and SCADA solutions for utility- scale PV solar plants worldwide. PV Hardware customers rely on its systems to optimize energy production. With ZEDEDA, PV Hardware has simplified the provisioning and deployment of its edge nodes and established a foundation to offer additional value-add services to its customers in the future.
Challenges
- Remote, hard to access sites with expected lifetimes of 25-40 years, limited Internet access, and no field IT staff
- Delays of up to 6 months to 1 year between device provisioning and deployment
- Tracker downtime may have an impact on energy production
- Limited ability to scale current manual, time-consuming device deployment and management
Solution
- Simplified provisioning and commissioning of devices in the factory requires no IT skills in the field
- Remote updates of applications and base operating system, with automatic testing and fail-back in case of failure
- Deployed devices update securely and on-demand once connected
- Remote orchestration provides the foundation for future value-add services
Outcomes & Benefits
With ZEDEDA, PV Hardware has simplified the provisioning and deployment of its edge nodes and established a foundation to offer additional value-add services to its customers in the future.
About ZEDEDA
ZEDEDA makes edge computing efortless, open, and intrinsically secure – extending the cloud experience to the edge. ZEDEDA reduces the cost of managing and orchestrating distributed edge infrastructure, while increasing visibility, security and control. ZEDEDA ensures extensibility and fexibility by leveraging a partner ecosystem, and EVE-OS, open-source Linux-based edge operating system.
