Homeowners find this information helpful in analyzing their system's performance over extended periods to ensure their system is operating as advertised, and to corroborate the amount of energy sold back to the utility. Public facilities use this information to display system performance to the general public, while schools use the DatCom system to help with science curricula and educational projects and to compare their systems with those in other cities.

Comparable systems of this sophistication can cost several thousand dollars more, and often don't give you the PV-specific analysis tools. The DatCom system's combination or performance and price makes it the best value in data monitoring available.

The DatCom system's features include:
Complete Analysis Tools Package
Remote System Access
Real-Time Data Monitoring
Cost effective

The DatCom components include:

FRONIUS IG Datalogger Box
The brain of the operation. The Datalogger Box stores data from up to 100 inverters and 10 Sensor Boxes, along with your programmed sensor constants and other information.

FRONIUS IG COM Card
The COM Card is communications hardware that is installed directly into your FRONIUS IG in the same way a Plug-n-Play card is installed in your PC. Every inverter needs a COM Card in order to communicate to the Datalogger to allow you to receive your data.

FRONIUS IG Sensor Box
The Sensor Box enables you to incorporate weather data such as irradiance, temperature, and wind speed, load data, and/or other system information, depending on the sensors connected.

FRONIUS IG access - Data Monitoring & Control Software
The software that brings it all together. FRONIUS IG.access offers a myriad of tools to provide users with the ability for casual data viewing or sophisticated mathematical analysis. The software also provides users with the ability to change certain inverter settings.