Abstract:
The maintenance and control of wind turbines is currently becoming a scientific concern, especially with the
growth in the number of wind turbines per fleet and with the various difficulties in accessing these machines
in the wild. In this paper we propose a wireless network of heterogeneous sensors which allows to solve
almost all these problems. This network provides remote maintenance and control of any wind machine. In
addition, this monitoring can be taken care of automatically by an off-site computer, even from far away.
With this application, each wind turbine is assumed to be equipped with sensors with a cluster head. This
cluster head is responsible for collecting the various measures related to the operation of the corresponding
wind turbine machine and for remote communications with two local or central stations. The validity and
performance of this proposed network are confirmed in the extended paper. |
