RhinoSolar:THE SOLAR CADASTRE OF LYON IS ONLINE!

THE SOLAR CADASTRE OF LYON IS ONLINE!

The solar cadastre allows to know the level of sunshine of each roof, i.e. the solar energy received by each square meter of a roof over a given period (in kWh / m² for one year).

The roofs are colored according to their sunshine, with a 6-level gradient ranging from "excellent" to "bad". The solar cadastre also indicates the total amount of energy that can be produced over a year by installing photovoltaic solar panels (kWh / year).

Produced using RhinoCity™ the Lyon Metropolis has a very accurate 3D model of its territory: each building, each roof, is modeled.

Thanks to RhinoSolar™, based on this model and the sun's course for a year, the sun was calculated for each roof section. The visibility of each 3D element present in the model has been taken into account during the calculations. Thus, if a tree, building or urban equipment obscures the sun, it is integrated in the calculation. Only taking into account the global visibility complex allows the development of a reliable and realistic solar cadastre.

TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE COMPLETE 3D MODEL

RhinoSolar™ calculates the solar potential and the sunshine duration of all surfaces by taking into account the complete 3D digital model to which they belong.

By taking into terrain, vegetation, buildings and all other potentially masking elements, RhinoSolar™ is an unprecedented solution for exploiting a territory's 3D digital model.

MULTIPLES WAY OF PRESENTING THE RESULTS

All the characteristics of the studied surfaces (identifier, surface, slope ...) as well as the results of computation are available as a CSV file directly exploitable in Excel.

SQLite database export: the high-reliability, embedded, full-featured and public-domain SQL database engine

Your 3D model is textured for easy reading of the results by gradients with customizable colors. You can also create geo-referenced vertical images of type GeoTiff.

Exported as attribute data from the 3D geometries studied, the calculation results are directly integrated into the 3D model when exported in CityGML format or in Shapefile (ESRI) format.