Experience & projects.
Three projects that together cover the complete technology stack: a deployed analytics system, forecasting research with an interactive dashboard, and the hardware that supports both.
Derwent Bridge — Advanced Power Analytics
A six-module web system for a remote Tasmanian site, covering real-time data acquisition through to optimal microgrid design and operating end to end.
- Live irradiance and wind acquisition for the site, converted to PV and wind output and written to a time-series store one row per minute, with a simulator substituting for the feed if it becomes unavailable
- Short-term forecasting by a recurrent network trained in seconds on the last week of hourly data and rolled forward a day ahead, for PV, wind and demand
- Long-term outlook from five years of daily climate history fitted with trend and harmonic regression, producing a two-year forecast aggregated to seasons
- Cost–benefit analysis — LCOE, NPV, payback and CO₂ for the PV and wind plants
- Ten-year design comparison of hybrid-grid, fully renewable and grid-only options
Day-ahead solar generation forecasting
An in-house deep-learning model for day-ahead solar generation forecasting, evaluated across recurrent and transformer architectures — with an interactive analytical dashboard that replays every prediction against measured output. Method details will be shared once the research is published.
- Our model evaluated against baseline and benchmark variants of LSTM, GRU and Transformer models
- Three co-located solar plants and a weather station, with a full data-engineering pipeline from raw records to model-ready series
- An interactive analytical dashboard that steps through a 144-hour test horizon hour by hour, showing prediction against actual and cumulative MAE, RMSE and R² as they evolve
- Every reported figure traceable to the notebook that produced it
PCB & embedded design
The instrumentation layer. Where the measurements a model requires are not available on site, we design the hardware that provides them.
- Schematic capture, PCB layout and design for manufacture and assembly
- Power and signal integrity, protection and isolation for measurement in electrically noisy plant
- Microcontroller firmware, sensor integration and telemetry
- Secure MQTT-over-TLS uplink, with local control of relays, PLCs, inverters and battery management systems
- Edge processing to maintain device operation during communication outages
Would you like further details on any of these projects?
We would be pleased to present the models, data and results in detail.
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