Welcome to pvWatch™, our online monitoring system exclusive for Real Goods Solar residential customers!
PVwatch is supported by industry-leading technology to monitor your electricity production. It collects production data from your solar panels, reports it in real time, and ensures everything about your system is operating at peak efficiency.
This powerful tool is available 24 hours a day*, where you can watch your system generate free electricity from the sun!
To view a demo, click HERE.
How It Works
pvWatch collects data automatically from your inverter every 15 minutes and transmits it via the internet to our server. The monitor uploads about 25 KB data per hour for each inverter (daytime bandwidth). Your monitoring system will check our server daily and download any necessary updates.
- 24x7 monitoring
- Web-based view displaying real-time and historical PV system performance in daily view
- Historical data can be exported to other applications
- Automatic alerts to our offices in case of failures
- Online storage of your data, hosted at www.pvwatch.com
- Sign in to m.pvwatch.com from your iPhone
*pvWatch is currently available for systems using SMA inverters only.
For specifications and more information, please visit www.pvwatch.com
