As solar scales from centralized plants to millions of rooftop and distributed installations, panel-level safety, visibility, and control become critical. Our vision: transform every solar panel into an intelligent, monitored, and controllable energy node.
Solar Sense is a hardware and machine learning platform: panel-level voltage, current, and temperature; ML-based fault detection; and integrated safety switching—built to scale across residential, commercial, and research systems.
Decentralized solar is growing fast—but safety, visibility, and control have not kept pace at the panel level.
Residential and commercial systems often operate at 600V–1,000V DC. When shading, wiring issues, degradation, or hotspots occur, hazards persist for installers, O&M crews, and firefighters—even when the grid is down, panels can continue producing electricity.
Most deployments are monitored at system or string level. Teams cannot pinpoint which panel is failing—leading to undetected faults, energy losses, accelerated degradation, and higher maintenance costs.
The market still lacks a low-cost, scalable solution that combines panel-level monitoring, real-time fault detection, and active safety control in one platform.
Regulators and fire-safety stakeholders are pushing module-level visibility and shutdown—creating room for smarter, safer panel intelligence.
A hardware and machine learning platform that delivers panel-level intelligence, predictive diagnostics, and integrated safety.
Each device measures voltage, current, and temperature for real-time insight into individual panel performance.
Detects shading, hotspots, electrical anomalies, and early-stage degradation—supporting predictive maintenance and less downtime.
Switching to shut down a panel quickly, reduce voltage in emergencies, and improve safety for firefighters and technicians.
Designed for module-level deployment across residential, commercial, and research systems in decentralized energy architectures.
Over time, we've slowly built and equipped this electronics lab to help us rapidly design, prototype, and test the next generation of Solar Sense technology. Built and developed by our Co-Founder & CTO, Jordan Harris-Toovy, this lab is becoming more than just a hardware development space.
It is evolving into a platform for solar panel testing, real-world data collection, rapid prototyping, and innovation focused on making solar energy smarter, safer, and more sustainable.
Solar Sense is a compact, cable-integrated device installed at the panel level—low-cost hardware, straightforward integration, wireless or wired data, and a path to mass production.
Target pricing brackets and multiple revenue paths as the platform matures.
$21
Target production cost
$37
Residential and commercial retail target
$200
Education and research market
Phase 1 — Product development and research market entry (2025-2027): Complete hardware design, manufacturing partnerships, and platform development (2025-2026). Launch Solar Sense Pro with Chinese universities, labs, and research institutions (2027). Deploy pilot systems, validate technology, build research partnerships, and generate field data.
Funding ask: $860K for research market entryPhase 2 — Research expansion and commercial market entry (2028-2029): Expand research deployments, publish findings, develop case studies, strengthen manufacturing (2028). Launch commercial Solar Sense platform for installers, EPC companies, asset owners, and O&M providers (2029). Requirements: certification (e.g. UL, NEC alignment), scaled manufacturing, distribution channels, and strategic partnerships.
Funding ask: $3M for commercial market expansionWe validate reliability and compliance before pushing into regulated, high-volume markets.
Architecture and integration choices aim for affordability so large fleets of panels can be instrumented economically.
Unlike monitor-only or shutdown-only approaches, Solar Sense combines monitoring, ML-based fault detection, and active control.
Adaptive models move beyond fixed thresholds to support predictive and evolving diagnostics.
Purpose-built for rooftop solar, distributed grids, and microgrids—not a retrofit of central-plant thinking.
Co-Founder | Renewable Energy Engineer
Hardware & Embedded Systems Lead
Current raise: $860K for education and research market entry; $3M roadmap for residential and commercial scale. We are seeking research institutions, pilot partners, manufacturing partners, and strategic investors who share the vision of safer, smarter, more scalable solar.
Improve safety in solar energy systems; increase visibility and control at the panel level; enable sustainable, scalable decentralized energy.
Let's build it together—starting with a conversation.
