US Patent Publication No. US2012/0158205A1 - Prepared by Attorney David Tran for Greenvolts Inc. and filed by Rutan & Tucker, LLP
Brief Description: Various methods and apparatus are described for a concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) system. In an embodiment, a systemincludes frontend application servers configured to provide web hosting of web pages, generation and presentation of user interfaces to enable users using client devices to view information of components of the CPV arrays and to issue commands to control operations of the components of the CPV arrays. Each of the CPV arrays is contained on a two-axis tracker mechanism. Each of the CPV arrays is associated with a different system control point (SCP) of a plurality of SCPs. The SCPs are communicatively connected to the central backend management system over a wide area network (WAN), which encompasses many networks including the Internet, using a secured channel. One or more sockets on the frontend application servers are configured to receive connections and communications from a first client device of a first user over the WAN in order to enable the first user to view information on components of CPV arrays associated with the first user. The central backend management system is configured to send commands to the components of the CPV arrays associated with the first user via SCPs of those CPV arrays. The one or more sockets on the frontend application servers are also configured to receive connections and communications from a second client device of a second user over the WAN to enable the second user to view information on the components of the CPV arrays associated with the second user. The central backend management system is configured to send commands to the components of the CPV arrays associated with the second user via SCPs of those CPV arrays.