Renewable energy robotics & IoT
SOLARA: custom robotics and IoT control systems for the green sector
Solar site robotics
IoT control systems
Custom UGV builds
Panel + string telemetry
Predictive maintenance
SCADA / EMS compatible
SOLARA is CORA's green-sector engineering practice: custom autonomous ground systems built on the CARGA
platform, paired with purpose-built IoT control systems for solar farms, battery storage sites, and
renewable energy operators. It exists to bring the same rugged, modular, cloud-connected engineering CORA
uses across CARGA, SIEMBRA, and HydroOS into the renewable energy sector.
The work spans two connected layers. On the ground, SOLARA adapts the CARGA chassis into custom UGVs for
panel-row inspection, vegetation management, perimeter security, and thermal/visual anomaly detection
across solar and wind sites. In the control room, SOLARA IoT systems connect inverters, combiner boxes,
weather stations, battery management systems, and switchgear into one cloud-connected monitoring and
control layer: built to sit alongside existing SCADA and energy management systems, not replace them
outright.
Screenshot placeholder: SOLARA site dashboard: string-level telemetry, inverter status, battery storage health, weather data, site map, and multi-site portfolio view.
Option 1: Custom UGV development
Option 2: IoT control systems
Option 3: Full turnkey deployment
- Custom UGV site robotics: adapt CARGA's tracked chassis for panel-row inspection,
vegetation management, thermal imaging sweeps, and perimeter patrol across solar and wind
installations.
- Panel & string-level telemetry: monitor inverter output, string currents, panel
soiling, and thermal hot-spots to catch underperformance before it costs real energy yield.
- Environmental & weather sensing: irradiance, ambient and module temperature, wind
speed, and humidity feeding directly into performance-ratio calculations.
- Battery storage monitoring: cell/pack voltage, state of charge, thermal behavior, and
cycle health for on-site battery energy storage systems (BESS).
- Predictive maintenance: detect degrading strings, failing inverters, and drifting
sensor baselines before they become truck-roll incidents.
- SCADA / EMS integration: connect into existing SCADA, DERMS, and energy management
systems via Modbus, MQTT, and REST APIs rather than forcing a rip-and-replace.
- Remote control & relay automation: string-level disconnects, curtailment signals,
and safety shutdown relays with full audit logging.
- Vegetation & site maintenance robotics: recurring ground-cover inspection and
management routes that keep panel rows clear without manual site visits.
- Site-wide cloud dashboards: AWS IoT Core / MongoDB Atlas telemetry pipeline, matching
the same cloud architecture CARGA, SIEMBRA, and HydroOS already use.
- Multi-site portfolio view: roll up performance, alerts, and maintenance status across
every deployed site from one operator dashboard.