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Maintaining wind turbines and identifying potential vulnerabilities is expensive and time-consuming, especially when they are located offshore. As a result, rotor blades are often simply replaced, a costly process, when damage is merely suspected. The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, working in concert with the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES, has developed a solution that can be used to identify cracks and breakages inside the blades remotely at an early stage.
Ethernet-APL extends connectivity all the way to process automation field devices. This is achieved with 2-wire cabling via Ethernet-APL switches at data transfer rates of 10 MB/s. Transmissions are intrinsically safe and therefore possible into Ex zones as well. This paves the way for the straightforward collection of large volumes of field data, which facilitates plant optimization as well as the development of new business models in process engineering. Yet physical transmission is only part of the story.
Modular surge protection and fault status monitoring system allows replacement withour rewiring
With patented current signal monitoring
Nanotron Technologies will be exhibiting at Geo IoT World 2018 its swarm bee location awareness modules which combine accurate UWB and long-range Chirp radio technologies in a single application
for hazardous areas
for lightning monitoring systems for wind turbines
for an offshore platform
in flammable or combustible atmospheres
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