Smartblue

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Many failures of today’s photovoltaic systems remain undetected. smartblue’s technology sees them all and sends out alerts in realtime.

Company Information

  • ECO12 Award category: Startup
  • Company name: smartblue AG
  • Country of origin: Germany
  • Company address: Ganghoferstr. 68a, 80339 Munich, Germany
  • Founding year: 2010
  • Company status: private company
  • Website: www.smartblue.de
  • Contact person: Dr. Philipp Geiger, Managing Director, philipp.geiger@smartblue.de
  • CEO: Dr. Philipp Geiger (Photo)

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Elevator Pitch

Many faults of photovoltaic systems are not detected by ordinary monitoring systems, energy yield is reduced significantly and insecurity is high: is it due to a fault or just due to bad weather conditions? As a solution, smartblue has developed intelligent defect detection of photovoltaic systems. This active, Internet-based monitoring service is continuously analyzing the PV system’s health status, precisely recognizes failures down to the module-level and alerts in any case of yield decreasing issues. smartblue’s strategy is that PV installers sell our technology to PV owners in order to increase uptime and thus profitability of their clients’ photovoltaic systems. Our business model consists of a one-time set-up fee, and a yearly fee for the fault detection and alert service. With our current fault detection service, we address the market of PV systems up to 500kW. The size of the German monitoring equipment market is approx. €350M p.a., and approx. €1B for the service market. smartblue has been founded by Dr. Philipp Geiger and Günter Seel. Mr. Geiger worked as a management consultant and in telecommunication industry before founding smartblue. Mr. Seel has a career in the semiconductor equipment industry before entering the photovoltaic market. Both hold a degree in physics.

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smartblue has developed intelligent defect detection of photovoltaic systems. This active, Internet-based monitoring service is continuously analyzing the PV system’s health status, precisely recognizes failures down to the module-level and alerts in any case of yield decreasing issues.

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