Case Study: a solar technology company achieves efficient data transfer and improved operations with Cirrus Link MQTT and Sparkplug

Solar Tech Company Achieves Efficient Data Transfer to Improve Operations at Solar Farms

A solar technology company faced challenges in gathering extreme data loads from over 200 remote solar farms. Their existing poll/response system was inefficient, causing high bandwidth usage and insufficient data throughput for their 100,000+ data tags per site. They sought a solution from Cirrus Link to reduce bandwidth, improve throughput, and transfer data more efficiently.

Cirrus Link implemented a solution using the MQTT protocol and Sparkplug specification to provide a standardized and efficient data movement platform. This architecture allowed data to be sent by exception, improving network throughput by over 80% and reducing the volume of data sent by 90-95%. The solar technology company successfully scaled the solution, rolling it out to 150 sites in the first year.