Wind Turbines Digital Twin Software Solution

Overview

Wind turbines remain a popular and importantly growing source of renewable energy and are continuing to play a key role in the production of clean electricity in the future.
Wind turbine companies are focused on installing, operating, and maintaining wind turbine infrastructure. Their performance is based on their capability to maximize revenue and reduce operational cost from their assets.

Need

It is essential to perform inspections on wind turbines in order to maintain their optimal performance and extend their lifespan when using them to generate wind-powered energy. Wind Turbines operators depend on these inspections to get an in-depth understanding of the asset condition and provide maintenance in a mannerly timeframe to ensure smooth operations and profitability.
Inspecting wind turbines is a challenging and risky task due to the towering height and intricate design of the turbines. This process is complex, takes long hours and requires several field personnel to be on site for safety. Inspections are critical to identifying visible damage or defects, structural inspection of the tower and foundation, and other problems that result in severe weather.

Business Value

vHive's Digital Twin platform uses AI and Machine Learning to derive all important insights from the digital data acquired by autonomous drone surveys.

Cost and time reduction

Decrease field and travel time
Decrease number people required per inspection
Office time reduction (inspection, modeling, measurement…)

Digital portfolio

One comprehensive view of all assets
Fully digitize and document your site and assets, compare results over time and monitor performance against plan or requirements

Workforce safety

Empowering field personnel to use drones eliminates the need for climbing and costs associated with risky climbing

vHive's End to End Solution

Plan

Define your survey type and location

Execute

Launch a fully autonomous survey
with a click of a button using vHive's field application, while keeping safe

Process

vHive digital twin software
will automatically process your survey
data and generate digital twins of
your wind turbine asset

Analyze

All asset models are analyzed
according to your business
needs based on vHive’s AI and
machine learning capabilities

Collaborate

Data insights shared with your
peers through annotations and
reports to shorten time to insights

Insights

Upon insights presented
update/ repair/ monitor
your wind turbines assets

Key Use Cases

Digital documentation

Locating faults on your turbines and blades and preventative maintenance and damage assessment can save costs and impact asset lifetime.

Operations

Building the turbines in the field, tracking construction progress, followed by the operational performance of the turbines.

Safety inspection

A shift from safety inspectors that are exposed to environmental and physical dangers to field personnel equipped with drones that inspect the sites from the ground.