Scalable systems for early fault detection in wind turbines: A data driven approach

The world has changed dramatically for wind farm operators and service providers in the last decade. Organizations whose turbine portfolios was counted in 10-100s ten years ago are now managing large scale operation and service programs for fleet sizes well above one thousand turbines. A big challenge such organizations now face is the question of how the massive amount of operational data that are generated by large fleets are effectively managed and how value is gained from the data. A particular hard challenge is the handling of data streams collected from advanced condition monitoring systems. These data are highly complex and typically require expert knowledge to interpret correctly resulting in poor scalability when moving to large Operation and Maintenance (O&M) platforms.

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