Lisle, Ill.-based SmartSignal Corp. has announced the successful expansion of its SmartSignal Wind Availability and Performance Solution (WindAPS).
On June 19, which was designated Global Wind Day by the Global Wind Energy Council, the SmartSignal Availability and Performance Center built out the assets of 126 wind turbines.
WindAPS is a software and services predictive-analytic solution that detects, diagnoses, and prioritizes developing mechanical and instrumentation turbine failures for SmartSignal's wind customers and provides them with exception-only notifications of impending failures.
The build-out was the culmination of a one-month-long-project, which included planning, to developing the model structures and building out the assets. Global Wind Day set a new record for the number of assets that SmartSignal has built out in a single day.
‘With skyrocketing crane and maintenance costs, wind farms need to know ahead of time when to plan outages,’ says SmartSignal CEO Jim Gagnard. ‘Being able to avoid surprises and take control of maintenance in a proactive way translates to massive cost savings.’
SmartSignal developed personalized empirical models for all 126 wind turbines within one month. Each model is composed of a combination of interrelationships of all related sensors that affect turbine performance. These wind turbine models, using SmartSignal's new and patented VBM technology, automatically adapt to fluctuations in wind speed, direction, shear, turbulence from ambient conditions and equipment performance.
SOURCE: SmartSignal Corp.
