Matthew Muller

A low-cost, high-performing wireless communication architecture for heliostat fields

NLR partnered with Caribou Labs to develop and test a flexible wireless control architecture optimized for heliostat fields. The project goals were to keep per-heliostat hardware cost to less than $35 per heliostat while achieving sub-second communication rates with 1000s of heliostats at distances greater than 1 km fr...