Condition monitoring is the discipline of keeping tabs on the machinery in a nacelle, but getting data to the trending software and people who need it is the duty of IT technicians. The timely receipt of such performance data keeps wind farms properly maintained and profitable. Ethernet on copper wires has been one way to…
Designing effective wind farm networks
A worn component can unexpectedly shut down a single turbine, but a flawed network can shut down the whole wind farm. Putting several best practices to work when designing or upgrading a wind-farm network can avoid such disasters. Diane Davis / Ethernet Networking / Director of Product Management / Red Lion Controls / www.redlion.com …