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SmartSignal identifies all major process and equipment failures on all critical rotating and non-rotating equipment across all OEMs.
SmartSignal helps you improve turbine reliability and availability and reduce maintenance costs across a wind farm or an entire fleet. We help you prioritize tower inspections and optimize crane usage. Unlike OEMs, we have no hidden agenda.
Efficient wind-farm management presents distinct monitoring challenges. Time-based maintenance and traditional condition-based monitoring techniques have been ineffective in the dynamic environment of wind generation. Ambient conditions vary widely, and wind turbines don’t offer a constant load, but rather cycle up and down, presenting a unique wind regimen and set of data points. Each turbine has 60 or more analog sensors, with data reporting every few seconds. SmartSignal analyzes in real time all the data that is collected by a programmable logic controller in the nacelle—literally tens of thousands of data points daily on a typical wind farm—and detects and notifies wind farms of impending problems, allowing owners to focus on fixing problems early and efficiently.
The chart illustrates wind farm components protected by SmartSignal and faults we identify. These assets span both rotating and non-rotating equipment, including transformers, across major OEMs. If you have any questions about equipment we monitor, please contact us.
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