Structural health monitoring of offshore Wind Farm
Blade inspections represent a significant share of the cost of maintaining offshore turbines. Continuous monitoring changes that equation.
Inspection is expensive offshore
Inspecting the blades of an offshore wind turbine is not a simple visual check. It requires specialised tools, skilled personnel, vessels and lifting equipment — and a weather window in which all of them are available at once.
Every one of those requirements adds cost, and every inspection campaign is a snapshot: it tells you the state of the blade on the day someone was able to reach it.
Monitor continuously, inspect deliberately
The solution is an effective Structural Health Monitoring system that continuously monitors the blade condition. Instead of paying to go and look, the operator is told when something has changed — and where.
- Continuous, online condition data rather than periodic campaigns.
- Inspection effort directed at the blades that actually need it.
- Reduced dependency on vessels, lifting equipment and weather windows.
- Earlier detection, so repairs happen while they are still small.
Interested in the offshore case?
We are happy to walk through the monitoring architecture and what it would take to apply it to your wind farm.