Phase IV Engineering has successfully developed wireless, battery-free RFID sensors that were initially designed to improve NASA’s water reclamation on the International Space Station. Now these sensors can also be used for wind turbines. Phase IV’s battery-free passive sensors can be used in predictive maintenance for turbines by keeping tabs on rotating equipment and watching for…
Going wireless on wind farm improves its productivity
GE and Cisco have teamed up to provide park-wide connectivity to the first phase of First Wind’s Milford, Utah, wind farm. The GE solution uses Cisco’s networking infrastructure to provide up-tower and down-tower wireless connectivity across all 39 GE turbines and throughout the 42 mi2 of the park. The devices deployed by First Wind support…