Field precision. Plant-wide intelligence.

A solar tracker is the structure that follows the sun's movement to capture more irradiation than a fixed structure. In ground-mounted plants the most common format is single axis, rotating the rows east–west.

Yes. “Solar tracker” is the English term and “seguidor solar” is the Portuguese one: both describe the same moving structure that follows the sun.

The gain varies with latitude, cloud cover and plant geometry, so there is no single number. What decides how much of that potential becomes generation is positioning accuracy through the day, correct backtracking and fleet availability — exactly what the control system delivers.

Backtracking is the correction that moves rows away from the angle of maximum capture to keep one row from shading the next, which happens with a low sun, early in the morning and late in the afternoon. Without it, part of the tracking gain is consumed by row-to-row shading.

Each row has a controller that executes the position target, reads its own state and applies local protection rules — the TCU at TECSCI. The coordination layer, NCU Web, distributes targets, consolidates telemetry and keeps the plant visible to operations, with local SCADA and Modbus integration.

The tracker has to leave the operating position before the critical wind speed, at a speed compatible with the expected gust. That protection must run in the controller itself, without depending on the cloud: anemometer, wind-speed stow curve and autonomy to bring the fleet to the safe position even with the network down.

Yes. Both technologies coexist, including in expansions of plants that started with fixed structures. What changes is operations: the mobile fleet needs its own telemetry, alarms and history to be managed as a separate asset.