Solar Plants

Mirox gives you complete monitoring and analysis for photovoltaic (PV) solar installations of every size, from small rooftop systems to large utility-scale solar farms — with a per-plant Digital Twin that tells you not just that a component underperformed, but why.

Supported Configurations

Plant Architectures

Rooftop installations — commercial and industrial building-mounted systems
Ground-mounted systems — fixed-tilt solar farms
Tracking systems — single-axis and dual-axis tracking installations
Floating solar — water-based PV installations

Inverter Types

String inverters — multiple strings connected to centralized inverters
Central inverters — large-scale utility installations
Microinverters — individual panel-level conversion
Hybrid inverters — combined PV and battery storage systems

Plant Structure

Mirox models a solar plant as a hierarchy and discovers its components automatically from the data your loggers report — you do not enter the equipment list by hand:

Inverters with a computed primary orientation (east / south / west)
Generator junction boxes (GAKs) combining strings
Strings — the one component family you can also model and edit yourself
Irradiation sensors and feed-in meters

Each component links to a reusable datasheet so the platform knows the manufacturer specifications (inverter limits, panel ratings) it needs for analysis.

Monitored Parameters

Production Metrics

Real-time power output — current generation
Energy yield — daily, monthly, and annual production
Irradiance levels — solar radiation measurements
Performance ratio — actual versus weather-expected output
Specific yield — energy production per installed kWp

Environmental Data

Ambient temperature — air temperature at the site
Module temperature — PV panel surface temperature
Wind speed — impact on cooling and performance
Humidity levels — environmental conditions affecting efficiency

System Status

Inverter status — operational state and errors
String monitoring — individual string performance
Grid connection — AC coupling and grid parameters
Communication status — data connectivity health

Event Detection

The platform automatically detects and reports plant-level events:

Grid shutdowns — production loss caused by the grid operator
External shutdowns — production loss caused by an external control signal
Overproduction — output above the configured limit
Source availability — loss of a data source feeding the plant
Radiation-sensor defect — an irradiation sensor reporting implausible values

Component-level findings

Finer-grained problems — a degraded string, a stuck logger, shadowing, or inverter clipping — are surfaced by the Digital Twin per component rather than as plant-wide events. See Component Evaluation and Loss Detection.

Performance Analysis

A per-plant Digital Twin analyzes your solar plant in two ways.

String Configuration Analysis

For each string, the Digital Twin detects and validates the real configuration against what the metrics show:

Orientation — detected azimuth versus the configured value
Panel count — configured versus actual, flagging missing or defective panels
Inverter clipping — DC power exceeding the inverter's AC limit, with the energy lost
Shadowing — sunrise and sunset row-shadow detection against a clear-sky baseline

Each result carries a reliability status, so you know whether a finding is confident or based on insufficient data.

Health and Loss Monitoring

A nightly watchdog runs automatically per plant, simulates the production each component should have delivered, and compares it against the measured energy:

Loss attribution — every reported loss is tagged HIGH, MEDIUM, or LOW confidence
Real outage versus data gap — a missing reading from a healthy plant is treated as a communication or logging issue, not a production loss
Weather exclusion — snow, fog, and dew periods are excluded so weather is never miscounted as a component fault
Self-calibration — the expected-production model adjusts to each component's real behavior over a rolling window, so a freshly onboarded plant needs a few days before the numbers stabilize

No on-site pyranometer required

The watchdog derives an irradiance baseline from your best-producing strings, so loss detection works even on plants without a dedicated radiation sensor.

Integration Capabilities

Mirox collects solar plant data through vendor-specific adapters and supporting services:

Weather data providers — for weather-based performance expectations and forecasts
Inverter and string loggers — direct data collection from supported vendor hardware
Grid operators — feed-in configuration and compliance
On-site meteorological stations — local irradiance and weather inputs

Need a source we don't support yet?

We can build adapters for additional vendor hardware on request. See the Data Scraper for the current source coverage.

Digital Twin — the per-plant physics analysis engine behind solar findings
Loss Detection — confidence-bucketed energy-loss attribution
Efficiency Detection — string-level performance and orientation analysis
Component Evaluation — per-component health states
KPI Dashboard — specific yield, availability, and production at a glance
Wind Plants and Battery Storage — the other supported plant types