PVCollada: A Schema for Exchange of Digital PV System Designs
We present PVCollada, a schema to enable exchange of digital PV system designs. PVCollada describes the physical and electrical configuration of a PV system by leveraging the widely adopted COLLADA schema for 3D digital assets. PVCollada is free-to-use and is maintained as open-source software. Use of this schema can greatly simplify transfer of data among software applications for system design, performance modeling and monitoring.
Authors
- Mike Hamer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3743-0082)
- Clifford Hansen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8620-5378)
- Javier López-Lorente (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0032-1149)
- Bruno Wittmer
- Stéphane Degré
- Günter Stöhr
- André Reschke
Institutions
- Ansys (United States) (US)
- At Bristol (GB)
- Sandia National Laboratories (US)
- Saudi Arabia Basic Industries (United States) (US)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-06-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/pvsc59419.2025.11133414
- Primary Topic
- Smart Grid Energy Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00