Know where your energy is going.

A modern temporary power system can have energy flowing in several directions.

Solar may be charging the batteries. A generator may be supporting demand. Grid power may be available intermittently. Individual circuits or pieces of equipment may each be consuming different amounts of energy.

Looking at one component only tells part of the story.

We want operators to be able to see the whole system: What is generating power? What is consuming it? What is stored in the batteries? When is the generator running? And is the system performing the way it was designed to?

Battery state of charge is useful. But on its own, it doesn’t explain what is happening.

A battery bank could be at 80% and charging rapidly from solar. It could be at 80% and falling under a heavy load. Or a generator could have been running for hours to keep it there.

Those are very different operating conditions.

By bringing battery information together with generation and consumption data, TrackSyte® can provide a much more useful picture of how an energy system is behaving.

Context turns a reading into information.

Adding solar panels to a temporary power system doesn’t automatically mean the system is performing efficiently.

Operators need to understand what the solar array is actually contributing.

How much energy is being generated? How does that compare with demand? Is generation changing unexpectedly? Is the available solar energy actually making it into the battery system?

Remote visibility makes it possible to understand solar contribution over time rather than relying on assumptions about how the system should be performing.

Generators remain an important part of many temporary and hybrid power systems.

But every unnecessary hour of generator operation means fuel, servicing, emissions and cost.

Better operational information can help teams understand when a generator is running, what load it is supporting and how it interacts with the battery and renewable elements of the system.

The goal isn’t simply to know whether the generator is on. It’s to understand why it is on and whether it needs to be.

Understanding generation is only half of the equation. You also need to know where the energy is being used.

Monitoring overall load — and, where the equipment allows it, individual circuits or outputs — can help operators identify unusual consumption and understand how demand changes over time.

That matters particularly on temporary sites, where equipment can be connected and disconnected as the site evolves.

A power system designed for one load profile can quickly find itself supporting something very different.

If you can see the load, you can start to understand the behaviour behind it.

The useful insight comes when those things stop being separate data sources.

TrackSyte® can bring operational information from different parts of an energy system into one platform.

Depending on the equipment and available integrations, that can include battery voltage and state of charge, solar input, generator output and status, grid input, system load, voltage and frequency, individual distribution loads, alerts and equipment status.

The result is a clearer picture of how energy is moving through the system, rather than a collection of disconnected readings.

Power systems contain specialist equipment from different manufacturers. So our approach is to connect to it.

TrackSyte® can bring information together using application programming interfaces (APIs), MQTT messaging, Bluetooth and direct equipment interfaces, depending on the system.

We already work with technologies including Victron Energy, and our integration capability continues to expand as we work with customers and equipment manufacturers.

That allows TrackSyte® to become the operational layer across the power system rather than another isolated piece of equipment.

Once multiple systems are connected, operators can begin to compare performance across their fleet.

Which sites are relying heavily on generators? Which battery systems are consistently reaching low state of charge? Where is solar making the biggest contribution? Which sites have unusually high loads? Which assets are behaving differently from similar systems elsewhere?

The fleet itself starts to become a source of operational intelligence.

It’s: “What could we do differently?”

Once generation, storage and consumption can be understood together, the opportunity becomes much bigger than remote monitoring.

Operational history can help reveal how systems are actually being used.

That creates the foundations for better system sizing, more effective use of stored and renewable energy, reduced generator runtime and smarter decisions about how temporary power assets are deployed.

Over time, we want TrackSyte® to help operators move from seeing energy to understanding energy and ultimately to optimising it.

Our understanding of remote energy systems didn’t begin with a software dashboard.

Green Power Solutions’ roots are in off-grid and renewable power.

That experience helped us understand one of the fundamental challenges facing remote equipment: you cannot manage energy effectively if you don’t know what is happening.

TrackSyte® grew from that thinking.

Today we’re combining our understanding of power systems with hardware, connectivity and software to give operators a clearer picture of how their remote assets are actually performing.

We believe the future of temporary power will be increasingly connected.

Not simply because more equipment can send data, but because understanding that data creates opportunities to operate differently.

Systems that can explain how they are generating, storing and consuming energy can eventually help operators make better decisions about when to use solar, batteries, generators and grid power.

That means lower operating costs, better use of equipment and less wasted energy.

The objective isn’t more data. It’s a better-performing power system.

TrackSyte® provides the platform that allows us to bring operational information from distributed power systems together. Visit TrackSyte.com to explore our mobile power capabilities, integrations and platform in more detail.

If you manufacture, hire, deploy or operate temporary and off-grid power systems, we’d like to understand how you manage them today.

What can you see remotely? What still requires somebody to go to site? And what would you do differently if you had a clearer picture of generation, storage and consumption across your fleet?