Luminous Power Technologies (Luminous), a leading
home electrical player in India with a vast portfolio comprising power
back-up solutions, has announced the launch of its next generation
Connected
Solar Inverter, powered by the iQu Internet of Things (IOT) platform
from iBot Control Systems. Built on Microsoft’s Azure Hyperscale cloud
as the engine of intelligence, a set of mobile and web apps would
actively monitor power savings, battery health, and
also run predictive maintenance enabling greater energy savings.
The iQu IOT platform
offers a comprehensive best-of-breed platform for management of
connected devices, Apps, Inter-linkages and Data. Using the iQu
connected processor designed for high volume and highly distributed
IOT deployments, enterprise grade security and in-built cellular
connectivity, the connected Solar Inverter will provide real-time access
to usage monitoring hence enabling Luminous’ customers to maximize ROI
on their investments.
Luminous’ first release
of smart and connected products are targeted towards SMBs, individual
customers, and small solar power facilities. The solution is designed to
scale to 100,000s of Solar Inverters, and
the insights generated will help Luminous’ R&D innovate more
feature-full products in the future and bring them to customers on an
accelerated basis.
“iBot was chosen by
Luminous for its ease of integration and ability to drive a faster go to
market while rapidly innovating customer and channel facing
applications (web/mobile) including analytics,” said Vipul
Sabharwal, Managing Director, Luminous.
Ravi Subramanyam,
Founder and CEO, iBot Control Systems, said, “It was evident throughout
the engineering and development process for Luminous’ new Connected
Solar Inverter that our partnership with Luminous and
Microsoft has created a new paradigm in intelligent power back-up
solutions.”
“We are excited to work
with iBot which is transforming traditional products to smart and
connected industry solutions on the Azure platform,” said Narendra
Bhandari, General Manager, Developer eXperience and
Evangelism, Microsoft India.
The new connected solar Inverter is expected to be available in Feb. 2016 and will be marketed under the Luminous brand
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