Multi-brand data
Does it read every inverter, battery, meter and genset you maintain, through cloud APIs or a datalogger on site?
Platform comparison
Best solar and battery O&M platforms compared.
For O&M teams running multi-brand commercial and industrial (C&I) portfolios. This page sets out seven criteria for choosing a platform and a fair description of the main options. AMMP is one of them, not the only good one.
Seven criteria for O&M teams
SLA and availability tracking
Can it measure availability and response times against the terms of each O&M contract, with evidence?
Preventive maintenance support
Does it support scheduled checks and detect faults that keep coming back, so recurring problems get fixed at the root?
Ticketing and work assignment
Can alerts become tickets that are assigned to a technician, with a due date, and tracked to completion?
Alert routing
Do alerts reach the right person where they work: Microsoft Teams, Slack, email or webhooks?
Reporting
Can it produce O&M and client reports on a schedule, from the same data used for alerts?
Data access and lock-in
Can you take your data with you through an API, an MCP server for AI assistants and bulk exports?
The platforms
AMMP
A vendor-agnostic platform for solar, battery, hybrid, wind and genset portfolios: AMMP OS Platform for monitoring and operations, and AMMP AI (Ray), an AI coworker that can also run on top of an existing monitoring stack.
Fits best: Mixed-brand commercial and industrial portfolios that want one source of truth, reporting and contract tracking, with an AI coworker on top.
Learn moreMeteocontrol
An established, hardware-linked monitoring solution with a long track record in solar.
Fits best: Solar portfolios that already run on Meteocontrol hardware and want a proven, long-standing setup.
AMMP vs MeteocontrolPower Factors
Renewable asset performance management software.
Fits best: Teams already using it can keep it. Ray (AMMP AI) can run on top of Power Factors.
Power Factors alternativesAlsoEnergy PowerTrack
Monitoring and reporting for solar and storage portfolios with a widely deployed, standardized feature set.
Fits best: Portfolios whose requirements fit a standard template.
AMMP vs AlsoEnergy PowerTrackQOS Energy
A comprehensive asset performance management platform, primarily focused on utility-scale wind and solar projects.
Fits best: Utility-scale wind and solar operators.
AMMP vs QOS EnergyBazefield
A SCADA and operations management platform supporting solar, wind, storage and hydro, with particular strength in utility-scale projects that need advanced control.
Fits best: Utility-scale projects that need SCADA-level control.
AMMP vs BazefieldUnivers (EnOS)
One of the world's largest energy IoT platforms, serving major utilities, enterprises and governments with AI-powered optimization and carbon management.
Fits best: Large utilities, enterprises and governments.
AMMP vs Univers (EnOS)PV Operation
A Brazilian provider focused on distributed generation plants, offering SCADA as a service, a local SCADA option and an operations center.
Fits best: Distributed generation plants in Brazil that want local SCADA and a staffed operations center.
AMMP vs PV OperationManufacturer portals
Each inverter brand's own portal, such as Huawei FusionSolar, Sungrow iSolarCloud and SMA Sunny Portal.
Fits best: Single-brand portfolios that only need that brand's data.
AMMP vs Manufacturer portalsHow AMMP covers the criteria
Multi-brand data
30+ integrations through vendor cloud APIs, with the AMMP Edge datalogger only where needed. AMMP runs on 10,000+ sites in 30+ countries.
SLA and availability
O&M availability, response times and PPA guarantees checked against contract terms.
Ticketing
A board-based ticketing tool built into AMMP OS: turn alerts into tickets, assign people and set due dates.
Alert routing
Alerts in Microsoft Teams, Slack, email and webhooks.
Ray, the AI coworker
Ray checks every site daily and ranks issues by impact.
Data access
API, MCP server and Export Center.
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Pairing a CMMS or work-order tool with a monitoring platform
A monitoring platform detects and prioritises problems. A CMMS or work-order tool plans technicians, parts and visits. Many O&M teams use both.
Decide where tickets live
Pick one system as the place work is assigned and closed, so technicians are not working from two lists.
Connect the two
Check that alerts or tickets can pass between them through an API or webhooks.
Use the same IDs
Both tools should use the same site and asset IDs, so a fault, its ticket and its fix can be traced end to end.
Frequently asked questions
What should an O&M team look for in a solar monitoring platform?
Multi-brand data through cloud APIs or a datalogger, availability and response-time tracking against contract terms, support for scheduled checks and recurring-fault detection, ticketing with work assignment, alerts in Microsoft Teams, Slack, email or webhooks, scheduled reports, and open data access through an API, an MCP server and exports.
Do I need a CMMS as well as a monitoring platform?
It depends on how you plan work. A monitoring platform detects and prioritises problems; a CMMS or work-order tool plans technicians, parts and visits. Many O&M teams use both. If you do, check that tickets or alerts can pass between them through an API or webhooks, and that both use the same site and asset IDs.
How does AMMP support O&M teams?
AMMP OS Platform covers monitoring, alerting, ticketing and reporting across 30+ integrations, and checks O&M availability, response times and guarantees against contract terms. Ray, the AI coworker, checks every site daily and ranks issues by impact.
Can I export my data from AMMP?
Yes. AMMP provides an API, an MCP server for AI assistants and the Export Center for bulk exports.