Force-V: Real-time monitoring for commercial solar plants, on web, iOS and Android

The business

A solar and energy-automation company that installs and services commercial solar systems and sells monitoring to the businesses that own them.

The problem

• Readings from inverters and generators across many sites arrived in different formats; turning them into production, savings and plant-health figures was manual.
• Faults were found late, and every customer needed to see only their own plants.
• Customers expected a phone app, not a spreadsheet by email.

How we solved it

1. 01

   Hardware integration over MQTT through an EMQX broker, with readings landing in MySQL and heavy calculations run as stored procedures.

2. 02

   A Django REST API with JWT authentication, administrator, supplier and customer roles, and explicit user-to-plant assignments.

3. 03

   A React web dashboard (energy flow, production history, weather, map, Excel export) and a React Native app for iOS and Android with push notifications for new alarms.

How they use it to grow

• In production for more than two years, monitoring 100+ plants, with apps in the App Store and Google Play.
• Force-V sells monitoring as part of every installation and keeps extending the platform with us, most recently a fuel-management module for generator sites.