Remote monitoring like no other
- Darren Lewis
- Nov 17
- 1 min read
By Darren Lewis | 17-11-25
You hear a lot of companies say they “monitor data”. In reality, the real work sits underneath that phrase.
For me, monitoring is not a screen full of numbers. It is understanding how a site behaves day after day and knowing when something feels out of place.
An anomaly rarely looks dramatic at the start:
It might be a string sitting slightly lower than its neighbours.
A voltage pattern that is a little too flat.
A soft drift in inverter efficiency that does not match the weather.
Nothing that would raise an alarm, but enough to make you look twice.
The challenge is telling the difference between normal seasonal behaviour and the early stages of degradation. Shorter days can make everything look down. Cold mornings can make performance jump.
If you do not know the history of the site, you will miss the story the data is telling you.
This is why daily reviews matter.
When you look at the data often enough, you start to notice the small changes long before they become real faults. And those early corrections are the difference between a ten minute fix and an annual loss.
That is what monitoring means to me. It is not waiting for alerts. It is paying attention.
Because we care.
