1. Digital Solar Helping bring the power of sunshine to the world
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Digital Solar Helping bring the power of sunshine to the world
Engineering: Center for
Entrepreneurship and Technology

2. Product Statement
Digital Solar - produces smart phone enabled software and a lens kit to enable a hand held solar meter to accurately measures the year around shading of a solar installation site, a requirement for all national solar rebates.
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3. Global Cumulative PV Power
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4. Financial Incentives California is Currently 75% of U.S. market
Led by “California Solar Initiative”
Largest program in U.S. history
Long term funding commitment is key for growing deployment
Federal Incentives Are Helping
Federal Tax Credit:
Business Tax Credit: 30% for all solar technologies
Personal Tax Credit: 30% capped at $2,000
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5. Energy Market Prospecting
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6. Solar Market Opportunities
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7. Solar Product Methods Standard Digital Smart Phone
Solar Market - skies the limit
Standard professional readings ($250)
Required to get 70% coverage
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8. Current Technology Tough Math Takes Time Complicated Rough Accuracy
Expensive
Custom Equipment
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9. Competition Competition: Simple, inexpensive and reliable
Manual complex system
Expensive complex system
Simple, inexpensive and reliable
Smart phone technology
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10. Current Products Solar Pathfinder Big and heavy Inaccurate Cumbersome
Complex
Price $295
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11. Current High-end Products
Solar Suneye
Big and heavy
Cumbersome
Highly Manual
Complex
Expensive
Price $1995 with GPS
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12. Product Re-Design Requirements
Standard Digital Smart Phone
Soar Prospector - line
GPS
Compass
Internet enable
Camera
Software enabled
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13. Mission Statement
Digital Solar’s mission is provide electronic tools to empower the people of the world to create and use power efficiently.
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14. Future Product Digital Sunshine Lightweight Easy to install Automatic
Simple to use
Inexpensive
Price free with Smart Phone
$ $29.95 with adaptive lens
Freemium model - can calculate cost and pay pack period up sell packages
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15. The Team - Qualities U.C. Berkeley Team
People who want to have an impact on the world.
Must be driven.
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16. The Team - Skills Needed
Developers: iPhone, Android, Java, UI Design
Knowledge: Solar Power, Energy, Tools and Construction
Science: Astronomers, Physicists and Engineers - optical specialist
Type: Explorers and Adventurers
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17. Market Summary Market: solar energy:
Tremendous growth for decades to come.
Our work can have a global impact
Yes solar is going to be big.
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18. Product Opportunities
Problems and opportunities:
Produce more effect energy systems
Supplies government mandate for energy rebates
Optimizes natural surroundings for heating and cooling
Increases crop yields
Expands clean energy markets to the developing world
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19. Business Concept
Digitize the complex method to collect solar data into a one-step process.
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20. Goals & Objectives Five-year goals
Provide a simple low solution cost to monitor sun energy
Build comprehensive solar solutions
Expand to other monitoring areas
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21. Financial Plan Low cost manufacturing High-value software product
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22. Resource Requirements
Technology requirements
Smart phone programming
Optic engineering
Resource requirements
Passionate to make a difference
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23. Risks & Rewards Risks Addressing risk Rewards
Summarize risks project does not get implemented
Addressing risk
Build it
Rewards
Potential to have a global impact
Help develop the micro-inverter market
Helps the world use resources wisely
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24. Key Issues Near term Long term Seeking talent Build a qualified team
Build project
Have the world use “Digital Solar Meter”
Seeking talent
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25. The Start-up
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