There is a particular pleasure in being somewhere else when the wind gets up. You are at work, or on a train, or in a café two hundred miles from home, and you feel the gust before you see it: the number on your phone climbs from ninety watts to three hundred, to six hundred, and holds there while nothing outside your window moves at all.
That is what MyTESUP is for. Every Atlas and Magnum leaves us with a connected controller inside, and from the day it goes up, your turbine reports home. Wherever you happen to be, you can open the app and see what it is doing right now, what it did today, and what it has done every day since it was installed.
What you actually see.
Open the app and the first thing on the screen is the power your turbine is making at this moment, in watts, with the volts and amps behind it. Below that is today’s energy: the kilowatt-hours that have already gone into your batteries since midnight. When the wind picks up you can watch the power figure climb, and when it drops you can watch it fall. It is the closest thing to standing under the turbine, without standing under the turbine.
Scroll down and the view widens. Every past day is there, so you can see which days worked hardest and which were quiet. Thirty-day totals sit at the top: energy for the month, your best day, and the peak power the turbine reached. Beside your own numbers the app shows the local wind speed and the solar irradiance for your turbine’s location, so a flat day makes sense as a calm day rather than a mystery. And a small indicator tells you whether the turbine is online, which is the one thing you will find yourself checking most.
You name your turbine when you add it. Most people settle on something like “My Atlas”. If you have more than one, they all sit on the same account.
How it gets there.
The turbine. An Atlas or a Magnum turns the wind into DC power. That part has not changed. What has changed is that the turbine no longer keeps the story of what it made to itself.
The controller. Inside every MyTESUP turbine is a connected controller. It measures the turbine’s voltage and current continuously and regulates charging, which it would need to do anyway. The difference is that it also keeps a record of those readings and passes them on.
The cloud. The readings travel to the TESUP cloud over a secure MQTT link, the same kind of lightweight connection used by sensors and meters across industry. There they are matched with the wind and sun at your location, and every night the day is archived: total energy, average power, the hours the turbine was producing, the hours it was online, and its peak minute.
The app. MyTESUP, on iOS and Android, is simply the window onto all of that. It does not need to be on the same network as the turbine, or in the same country. It needs a signal and your login.
Why honest numbers matter.
Anyone who has looked at a monitoring screen knows the temptation. Show the good hours, quietly leave out the rest, and the totals look wonderful. We have taken the opposite view, because a number you cannot trust is worse than no number at all.
Calm hours are counted as zero. If the wind did not blow between two and five in the morning, those three hours go into the average at nothing, and the daily figure is smaller for it. That is the real figure. It is the one you should use when you think about what the turbine is worth to you.
The app shows the hours your turbine was producing separately from the hours it was online. A turbine that was online all day and producing for six of those hours is not hiding anything. It is telling you the wind arrived at breakfast and left at lunch.
The chart above is a real example, with the owner’s details removed. One Atlas in northern Italy generated 236 kWh in the last thirty days. Its best day was 16.9 kWh. It produced on 23 of the 29 days that reported, and on the other six it was calm. Those calm days are on the chart, marked as calm, sitting at zero. They are part of the 236, not an asterisk beside it.
There is a practical benefit to this beyond honesty. Because the record separates a calm turbine from a stopped one, you can tell the difference between a quiet week and a problem. The wind data is right there beside your own numbers. If the wind blew and the turbine did not, you will see it, and so will we.
Looked after, quietly.
The same readings that reach your phone also reach TESUP support, in aggregate, as the health of the whole fleet. A turbine that stops reporting is flagged the same day, often before its owner has noticed anything at all. When that happens, support can get in touch, and the email will carry that turbine’s own figures rather than a generic checklist. Turbines are reporting to MyTESUP from the UK, Italy, Germany, France, Portugal, Belgium, Switzerland and Türkiye, and from South Africa, the United States and Canada: four continents, one platform, and the same quiet attention paid to each machine on it.
Two things to do next.
If you already own an Atlas or a Magnum: open the MyTESUP app, choose “Add device”, and give your turbine its name. Its story starts tonight.
If you are still deciding: have a look at the Atlas and the Magnum. Both come with MyTESUP built in, and both will be happy to tell you what they are doing while you are somewhere else.