CleverFarm - A superSCADA system for wind farms

The CleverFarm project started out to build an integrated monitoring system for wind farms, where all information would be available and could be used across the wind farm for maintenance and component health assessments. This would enable wind farmoperators to prioritise their efforts, since they have a good view of the farm status from home.

A large emphasis was placed on the integration of condition monitoring approaches in the central system, enabling estimates of the remaining lifetime ofcomponents, especially in the nacelle. During the 3½ years of the project, software and hardware was developed and installed in two wind farms in Denmark and Germany.

The connected hardware included two different condition monitoring systems based onvibration sensors from Gram&Juhl and ISET, plus a camera system developed by Overspeed. Additionally, short-term predictions of the wind farm output were delivered by DMI and Risø’s Prediktor system throughout the period of the project.

All these diverseinformation sources are integrated through a web interface based on Java Server Pages. The software was developed in Java, and is delivered as so-called CleverBeans. The main part of the software is open-sourced. The report contains the experiences andresults of a one-year experimental period.

This report is a slightly edited version of the final publishable report to the EU Commission as part of the requirements of the CleverFarm project.