Lightning detection for operational decisions

Thunderstorms with lightning pose serious risks to your solar farm, potentially damaging equipment and endangering employees. As the number of solar farms increases, the need for advance warning of approaching storms has become more critical than ever. With Indji Watch, you’ll receive timely alerts about approaching lightning events, enabling you to prepare and mitigate their impact on operations.

For advance awareness and planning, Indji Watch predicts lightning location up to 8 hours in advance. Know when lightning is forecast to impact your solar site and potentially endanger employees and contractors. When the storms develop real-time lightning displays and alerts will warn workers when to stop work and go to a safe location. Indji Watch will continue to track the storm and also provide messaging of when it is safe to return to work. 

Using the Indji Watch Mobile App, your team will receive real-time notifications about lightning, and other severe weather threats. With updates every minute, your team can safely decide whether to leave the site or continue working, ensuring operations run smoothly and safely.

Lightning Impact on solar operations and post-storm recovery

Indji Watch offers advanced tools to manage weather challenges, including historical lightning analysis, highly accurate forecasts, and real-time dashboard displays for your operations center. If damage does occur, our system helps you document weather-related incidents, such as lightning damage. Our lightning damage analyst tool can help you pinpoint which inverter was struck, which can expedite insurance claims and reduce downtime.

As insurance companies increasingly require solar farm operators to have weather mitigation solutions, Indji Watch provides the comprehensive tools necessary to meet these demands and protect your operations.

Accurate Forecast Tools for Smarter Planning

Whether it is rain, high wind or lightning, they all can interrupt your maintenance plans and could even endanger your employees and contractors. With the Plan of Day and Week forecast tools in Indji Watch, you can see predicted lightning events, gusts of strong wind and even heavy rain. You can schedule sensitive work around these events and avoid having contractors sitting in the truck while the cash clock is running.

The weather forecast updates hourly allowing you to capture rapidly changing conditions and stay ahead of extreme weather.