Statistics on Access to the SoDa Service

This graph depicts the yearly number of requests of automatic accesses (machine-to-machine accesses, wget or curl command) to the HelioClim databases (HC1, HC3) since the introduction of the SoDa website in 2002. In the first months of 2011, the duplication of the acquisition chain at Transvalor premises, in Mougins, France, enables a better service, and wget access to our Customers.

In 2011, more than 1 750 000 automatic requests were made to the HelioClim databases. In 2012, this number exceeds 2.5 millions.

Number of requests for each service made by different customers. We have excluded the requests performed by Mines ParisTech and Transvalor for research purposes.

Total number of requests in 2011 was 90 540, with 5 435 different users. In 2012, the total number of requests is 396 599 for a number of 6 283 users.

Transvalor S.A. is in charge of the SoDa website since April 2009. Since then, the whole European country and the northern part of Africa have been mapped (GHI or BNI, yearly and/or monthly averages).

Transvalor S.A. is in charge of the SoDa website since April 2009. Since then, 116 time series have been ordered by a one-shot request.

• ENTPE (France) provides 5 free webservices (9 %)
• Meteotest (Switzerland): 5 (9 %)
• NASA (USA): 2 (3 %)
• NCEP (USA): 1 (2 %)
• ISAC (Italy): 2 (3 %)
• Mines ParisTech (France): 44 (75 %)