Web-Lab On-Line Monitoring

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The progressive Educational Systems Web-Lab is an on-line monitoring system with on-line curriculum for both wind and solar energy. This system can be used to monitor any wind and/or solar renewable energy system including:

Any Progressive Educational Systems trainer
Any Progressive Educational Systems component board
Any existing school wind or solar energy equipment
As a stand-a-lone system monitoring a Progressive Educational Systems installation

Key Features

Web based monitoring for your Progressive Educational Systems Renewable Energy system or other includes:

Renewable energy monitoring/recording of power in watts, current, voltage, kWh data for any time period
Data download to Excel file
Battery voltage including time remaining in hours, amp hours and watt hours.
Green House Gas(GHG) savings in pounds of Co2. 12 energy equivalents including, AA batteries, litres of gasoline, miles driven and computer hours.
Cost savings, reduction in cost you have diverted from your annual electricity bill
Alarms thresholds can be set to trigger an alarm.
Messaging, recieve daily performance reports and alarm notifications

School Branded Site

This hosted monitoring service allows viewing of your system performance on any computer that is connected to the internet. You can book mark the URL for access whenever you want or even set it as your home page. Data is stored on Progressive Educational Systems servers. No software is installed on your computers. No IT assistance required.

The monitored site is branded to the particular school with school logo, local solar and wind atlas sites and local weather information. Depending on the school access level (Middle, High School or Post Secondary) other modifications and customizations can be accomplished by the instructor or site facilitor. The Progressive Educational Systems online monitoring system can be used to monitor a single/multiple trainers or multiple existing sites.

Curriculum

The on-line curriculum delivers content and instruction for wind and solar energy training. The experiments are performed using any of Progressive Educational Systems trainers. The multimedia can be loaded on a stand-a-lone, or networked computer in the school or hosted on the school web server. Since the multimedia has been authored by a SCORM certified windows authoring program the curriculum can be delivered and tracked through any SCORM certified LMS like Moodle or People Soft. SCORM is a common communication protocol that enables LMS producers track other companies titles.

Curriculum areas include:

Pre-Test/Introduction/ Safety Precautions
Renewable Energy Basics
Solar Energy
Wind Energy
Solar Siting
Wind Siting
Storage Devices and Monitoring
Voltage Regulation and Monitoring
Energy Conversion and Distribution
System Design
System Troubleshooting
Post-test and Wrap up
History Research
Careers in Renewable Energy
Design your own Hybrid System
Internet Research
Problem Scenario Build your own wind turbine!

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