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It’s mainly for data transformation and transport. Solar inverters don’t deliver data in the same formats, there are no protocols and apparently most engineers in the solar panel business still think FTP (not SFTP) is fine but some will deliver a file per reading while others will aggregate and so on.

We use node to gather the data and transform it into consumptive formats that our 3rd party AI vendor can work with, as well as store it in a range of SQL databases for our own PowerBI consumption. We do no frontend work.

We don’t use node because it’s a good idea to use node for this. We use node because we try to use TypeScript as much as possible because we’re a small team and having a single language covering as much of our stack as possible makes it easier to work together.