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Plant Onboarding Process

To provide a high level of data quality through its portal, Novasense pays the highest attention to metadata quality during the onboarding process. The onboarding of a new plant in the Novasense Portal involves multiple steps.

Plant Documentation Transfer​

The first onboarding step is to provide Novasense with access to the plant documentation. The following documents are required:

  • Filled Onboarding Form Template
  • String wiring plans
  • Inverter datasheets
  • Solar module datasheets
  • Information about data sources used
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Ensure that you provide accurate, correct, and precise plans and metadata. Errors in the documentation might lead to additional effort in the subsequent onboarding steps.

Initial Plant Onboarding​

The initial plant onboarding is performed by Novasense in three steps:

  1. Document Plausibility Check: Verify if the provided documents are clear and coherent.
  2. Time Series Check: Check normalized raw data to ensure that the electrical measurements are coherent with the provided plant layout information.
  3. Novasense Portal Setup: Set up the Novasense Portal with all metadata, obtain weather, and inverter data history.

Any obviously incorrect plant data provided to Novasense will lead to an interruption of the process for further clarification with the customer. In case of uncertainty, Novasense might request a final validation of the plant layout from the customer.

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At this stage, the plant will be visible on the Novasense Portal, and the anomaly detection will have standard thresholds defined for perfectly functioning plants. The fine-tuning of the anomaly detection takes place in the next step.

Anomaly Detection Tuning​

After 6-12 months of operation, the historical data will be evaluated, and the anomaly detection will be tuned to provide an optimal balance between sensitivity and selectivity. If needed, machine learning models will be trained to improve the quality of the target values calculations. More information about power modeling is provided on the KPI Calculation Page.