SB Energy USA Chooses SenseHawk's SaaS Platform for Site-Operations Digitization
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SARATOGA, Calif., November 2, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --
SenseHawk (www.sensehawk.com), a solar software as a service (SaaS) startup,
announced that SB Energy, SoftBank Group Corp's US-based solar and storage
platform, has adopted its solution for digitizing solar site operations. The
deployment will enable SB Energy to achieve quick event-response time while
increasing operations and maintenance (O&M) efficiency, resulting in robust
savings and higher return on their investment.
Abhijit Sathe, Co-CEO of SB Energy said, "We believe the SenseHawk digital
workflow solution for our operating sites will result in substantial
productivity gains for our O&M team. It is the type of innovation essential for
scaling renewables."
SB Energy's implementation of the SenseHawk field mobility and asset
information solution for solar will enable remote management of all assets
through a single, powerful dashboard. The included 'digital twin' system fuses
real-time performance data, drone feeds, and more, with a full-featured digital
model of the site to facilitate efficient workflows that can be visualized on a
map. The ability to seamlessly integrate with SB Energy's supervisory control
and data acquisition (SCADA) system will allow users to select and prioritize
the alarm notifications, and quickly translate them into actionable,
geo-located tasks for field teams.
"Our goal is to make onsite operations as simple as opening your favorite
maps application and finding a restaurant in a new city while also making
communication and coordination simpler. The SB Energy implementation stands
testament to the real dollar value that our platform can deliver," said Swarup
Mavanoor, CEO of SenseHawk.
Solar software is seeing increased traction with the acceleration of solar
installations worldwide. However, aggressive cost reduction in construction and
O&M is creating challenges for O&M teams tasked with ensuring optimal plant
performance. Since legacy computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS)
for plant maintenance are not intuitive for field personnel use, O&M team
members still rely on emails and deep personal knowledge of solar farms to
pinpoint tasks in a work order. This results in specific personnel being
dedicated to specific sites, increasing cost.
SenseHawk's digital twin, which simulates the asset and its environment on
the platform, makes onsite task management simple and seamless, even for techs
that are on site for the first time. With the SenseHawk app, a technician can
move to a new site and immediately become productive without needing time to
'study' the site. Savings of 20-30% are easy to achieve with the productivity
gains SenseHawk delivers. The SenseHawk platform is enterprise-ready with an
extensive system of collaboration, access control, and single sign on (SSO)
capability.
Every component, event, and spare part on the site is digitized and loaded
into SenseHawk's map-based platform. A SCADA alarm, for instance, will trigger
a workflow with tasks tagged to specific components or parts on the map. O&M
technicians can use SenseHawk's mobile map interface to find and complete these
tasks. All task updates, including pictures, files, and remarks, are synced to
the cloud, ensuring that everyone is up to date.
Don Nista, Director of O&M, SB Energy said, "We hope that the SenseHawk
platform will help our technicians and operators to locate an issue and then
easily and quickly know what specific actions to take to resolve the issue and
maintain, or exceed, site yield targets."
While SB Energy has already used SenseHawk's drone analytics capabilities to
monitor construction quality and progress, it now plans to use SenseHawk's task
management tools and Therm solution for infrared thermography at its
operational plants.
About SB Energy
SB Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of SoftBank Group Corp., is a leading
utility-scale solar, energy storage, and technology platform. SB Energy
develops, constructs, owns, and operates some of the largest and most
technically advanced renewable projects across the United States. SB Energy's
mission is to provide flexible renewable energy at scale, accelerating the
global energy transition, and benefiting our planet, customers, communities,
and people.
For more information, visit http://www.sbenergy.com.
About SenseHawk
SenseHawk, Inc. is a California-based SaaS provider that is working to
digitize solar. SenseHawk builds and deploys on-demand software applications
that enable yield improvement, defect identification, progress monitoring,
productivity enhancement, cost reduction, collaboration, and data management
throughout the solar lifecycle. From development and construction, through
operations and maintenance, SenseHawk software has been deployed on 600+ solar
sites worldwide.
For more information, visit https://www.sensehawk.com.
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Source: SenseHawk
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