Hi devs !
To begin Thanks for your work ! Your equipments work great.
I'm a victron user from 6 years and an installer in Guadeloupe France near the soufrière volcano.
We have a total autonomous house for electricity(10kw solar pannels vic quattro and small out of order hydro Electric turbine ) , fresh and hot water, food (almost).
I've got ideas to share from m'y experience.
It could be Nice that the vrm portal and your data base analyse this criteria with artificial intelligence :
We could enter the age and the exact kind of batteries
Idem for the photovoltaic pannels
Taking the serial number of victron products to know the age of the products
And it would take all the informations from all the installations in the world you have with this kind of batteries and system to predict for example how many years of life the batteries (remaining age) .
As well to to identify a problem on a kind of batteries.
Like usually with an x consumption it give x amperes in a night and brutally it gives half or it has reduced during a year.
That could give advices like : the amount of energy stored in your batteries has begun to fall this year, please check your lead batteries (levels/density) .
Or your pannels did produced 50% more last year, check of you need to clean them.
Please check your dc protections.
It would be great to have the estimated age who last to be able to predict when the customer Will have to get money and make an order to change a component.
Like SoC it could have a health percentage of the installation with details when we click on it.
It would be really Nice as well to predict the power production for the day/week/year to come with the pannes power wich is available and the weather the age of the pannels etc, the production of the year before.. .
It could say : the batteries voltage is falling all the time too low, advice: you could add some pannels.or, the weather doesnt permit to have enough production, you could have x ah more of storage to be efficient.
Bmv connected to vrm with a gx component could use data from all the installations who are similar to complete peukert alorithm for energy who last for real life energy calculation (hours / days energy estimation). And use how much it has given the year before on the sale situation.
It could auto activate energy saving mode on low consumption if for example it saws that all the afternoons there is no consumption.
It could give advices on parameters like dvcc would be usefull for you or we saw that you frequently arrive to the limit of power available, you should activate power Assist.
To detect that the absorbtion voltage and float voltage are not the same in the inverter and in the smartsolar.
Sensor/product ideas :
Iot Bluetooth sensor for temperature, hydrogen production and density for lead acid batteries to help maintenance and dvcc production/ regulators / battery long life alorithm... Etc
Iot Bluetooth small sensor for voltage of each 2v battery (to detect bad cabling or inegal voltage to prevent problems)
Iot sensor for solar radiation, degrees, humidity, gyro sensor, wind sensor to help production prediction alorithm. And as well to help long life algorithm to tell for example the outsider temperature and the battery room is too high you maybe should put some insulation to protect them.
Gyro sensor for on water installations (boats, floating pannels..) to identify if it begins to turn too much and cut production if an x angle is reached or weather conditions are too bad)
Iot compatible Connected plugs to auto desactivate non essential components and reduce consumption to go to safe mode for batteries.
Connected victron dc protection for each line of solar pannels or batteries to detect a problem in a line
Victron solar pannels who have voltage /power sensor to detect inside the Black little bow a failure of a solar pannel or cabling and to have a visual grid to see exact production of each solar pannel to optimize placing or replacement/ to help alorithm to predict production / to give advices for azimuth (small gyro sensor ?) or sun orientation.like in small inverters systems.
Solar panels with micro ac inverter inside the Black little box to add to an existing installation to reinforce production without having to change regulator and inverter etc.
Connected uv lamp for gx tank to know for replacement or connected interface to plug an uv lamp.
Iot sensor for earthquakes to cut production when an earthquake arrive.
Vrm portal/victron connect ideas/ general ideas:
Show Temperature from temp sensor in the vrm
Show quattro/multi/Phoenix in device list in vrm and victron connectto be able to modify all the parameters directly from ui with out mk3 and phisycal access
GX dvcc absorbtion and float voltage modify or vrm ui to set the voltage for all the devices
Show the inverter/bmv/gx/smartsolar... consumption in the vrm
GX tank 140 idea: implément temperature sensor receiving for liquids.
Implement liquid pressure sensor receiving to automatically activate pumping.
Implement water Turbidity sensor receiving for poor countries where water is not so good to be able to make corrections and know when filtres has to be changed (with advices from ai alorithm).
Implement water counter sensor receiving to have water consumption in the vrm portal.
Make vrm compatible with connected houses like open source jeedom box/os to export data in custom interfaces for autonomous house managing.
Make gx device compatible with an interface for air conditionning to rectify temperature and help battery long life optimisation.
Add humidity sensor in victron products to shut down production if It's too high.
Make atex inverters for lead acid installations or industrial atex situations
Add thin insulation for inverters for electricity noise
Use passive cooling for inverters
Use Can energy to feed bmv
Thanks for reading and sorry for the mess
