SenseHawk (www.sensehawk.com), a solar software as a service (SaaS) startup, 
announced that SB Energy, SoftBank Group Corp's US-based solar and storage 
platform, has adopted its solution for digitizing solar site operations. The 
deployment will enable SB Energy to achieve quick event-response time while 
increasing operations and maintenance (O&M) efficiency, resulting in robust 
savings and higher return on their investment.

   Abhijit Sathe, Co-CEO of SB Energy said, "We believe the SenseHawk digital 
workflow solution for our operating sites will result in substantial 
productivity gains for our O&M team. It is the type of innovation essential for 
scaling renewables."

   SB Energy's implementation of the SenseHawk field mobility and asset 
information solution for solar will enable remote management of all assets 
through a single, powerful dashboard. The included 'digital twin' system fuses 
real-time performance data, drone feeds, and more, with a full-featured digital 
model of the site to facilitate efficient workflows that can be visualized on a 
map. The ability to seamlessly integrate with SB Energy's supervisory control 
and data acquisition (SCADA) system will allow users to select and prioritize 
the alarm notifications, and quickly translate them into actionable, 
geo-located tasks for field teams.

   "Our goal is to make onsite operations as simple as opening your favorite 
maps application and finding a restaurant in a new city while also making 
communication and coordination simpler. The SB Energy implementation stands 
testament to the real dollar value that our platform can deliver," said Swarup 
Mavanoor, CEO of SenseHawk.

   Solar software is seeing increased traction with the acceleration of solar 
installations worldwide. However, aggressive cost reduction in construction and 
O&M is creating challenges for O&M teams tasked with ensuring optimal plant 
performance. Since legacy computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) 
for plant maintenance are not intuitive for field personnel use, O&M team 
members still rely on emails and deep personal knowledge of solar farms to 
pinpoint tasks in a work order. This results in specific personnel being 
dedicated to specific sites, increasing cost.

   SenseHawk's digital twin, which simulates the asset and its environment on 
the platform, makes onsite task management simple and seamless, even for techs 
that are on site for the first time. With the SenseHawk app, a technician can 
move to a new site and immediately become productive without needing time to 
'study' the site. Savings of 20-30% are easy to achieve with the productivity 
gains SenseHawk delivers. The SenseHawk platform is enterprise-ready with an 
extensive system of collaboration, access control, and single sign on (SSO) 
capability.

   Every component, event, and spare part on the site is digitized and loaded 
into SenseHawk's map-based platform. A SCADA alarm, for instance, will trigger 
a workflow with tasks tagged to specific components or parts on the map. O&M 
technicians can use SenseHawk's mobile map interface to find and complete these 
tasks. All task updates, including pictures, files, and remarks, are synced to 
the cloud, ensuring that everyone is up to date.

Don Nista, Director of O&M, SB Energy said, "We hope that the SenseHawk 
platform will help our technicians and operators to locate an issue and then 
easily and quickly know what specific actions to take to resolve the issue and 
maintain, or exceed, site yield targets."

   While SB Energy has already used SenseHawk's drone analytics capabilities to 
monitor construction quality and progress, it now plans to use SenseHawk's task 
management tools and Therm solution for infrared thermography at its 
operational plants.

   About SB Energy

   SB Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of SoftBank Group Corp., is a leading 
utility-scale solar, energy storage, and technology platform. SB Energy 
develops, constructs, owns, and operates some of the largest and most 
technically advanced renewable projects across the United States. SB Energy's 
mission is to provide flexible renewable energy at scale, accelerating the 
global energy transition, and benefiting our planet, customers, communities, 
and people.

   For more information, visit http://www.sbenergy.com.

   About SenseHawk

   SenseHawk, Inc. is a California-based SaaS provider that is working to 
digitize solar. SenseHawk builds and deploys on-demand software applications 
that enable yield improvement, defect identification, progress monitoring, 
productivity enhancement, cost reduction, collaboration, and data management 
throughout the solar lifecycle. From development and construction, through 
operations and maintenance, SenseHawk software has been deployed on 600+ solar 
sites worldwide.

   For more information, visit https://www.sensehawk.com.

   Media contact:
   Savita Dhawan 
   savita@wizikey.com 

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   Source: SenseHawk