With renewable energy and alternative power development at the forefront of today's technological landscape, Ridgetop Group has developed a host of solutions tailored to the renewable and alternative energy segment.
For applications such as wind power, solar power, and hybrid systems, the power conversion process requires the constant successful execution of intricate electrical connections, which can often be degraded at abnormal or unpredicted rates.
Variations in production quality, from board-level assembly even down to the silicon manufacturing process, can result in and charge can result in costly intermittencies, and in some cases even failure, costing operators time and money.
Ridgetop Group's prognostic product developments for hybrid vehicle and solar power supplies enable operators and servicers of renewable-energy products to monitor and evaluate state of health of the power modules in electric, hybrid, and fuel-cell vehicles.
Fuel Cell and Lithium Ion Battery Technologies
Energy storage components such as fuel cells and lithium ion battery technologies are being used for green power applications of the future. These intricate electro-chemical devices have complex behaviors that impact the usage and integrated vehicle health monitoring (IVHM) for systems employing them.
Fortunately, customers can directly benefit from Ridgetop’s experience with these components for prognostic and diagnostic monitoring, as integrated into comprehensive IVHM systems for automotive and other applications.
Over the years, Ridgetop’s activities have ranged from design of ICs to monitor individual cell degradation to independent assessments of Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for critical aerospace applications.
Find out more about Ridgetop’ssolutions for alternative energies such as SentinelPI EPU (electronic prognostic unit) andSentinel RingDown EPU in our product andresource library sections.
Critical Power System Application
Ridgetop is proud to have received a letter of support, associated with Ridgetop’s work on Tucson Water’s solar power installation in Pima County, Arizona.In this application, Ridgetop prognostic-enabled a critical power inverter to monitor its performance.
Upon detection of faults, immediate notification via email is sent to Maintenance Personnel to maintain power generation. For more information, please review Tucson Water’s letter of support.
