Wind Farms are highly distributed deployments, often in remote areas, many times with bad and expensive network connectivity.
Wind Farms are highly distributed deployments, often in remote areas, many times with bad and expensive network connectivity. Wind farm operators find it challenging to collect streaming data on critical metrics such as the amount of power generated on a given wind turbine, total power generation across a wind farm, wind speed, and correlation between wind speeds and power output levels.

Many operators find it challenging to get real-time and near real-time analytical reports that can provide overall wind farm production metrics across a portfolio, with the ability to drill down to an individual wind farm level. Major challenges include:
  • Unplanned equipment outages which impact asset utilization, financial performance, and customer satisfaction
  • Lack of real-time insight into operations
  • Data volumes overwhelm existing, traditional operational infrastructure
  • Need for reporting that is flexible, relevant, timely, and easily customizable
Cisco and SAS analytics solutions enable real-time and near real-time reporting, streaming analytics, predictive maintenance, and event detection and reporting capabilities to wind farm operators.
These capabilities from Cisco and SAS help operators maximize generation, prevent expensive wind turbine breakdown, and reduce operational costs:
  • Processing of vast volumes of streaming data from wind turbines and wind farms
  • Analysis of sensor data in real-time, enabling the alert of potential or emerging issues
  • Providing intuitive visual exploration of near real-time and historical business key performance indicators (KPI’s)
Capabilities employed
Industrial networking 		Cisco Industrial Router (IR) Overview
Service management 		Cisco Kinetic Gateway Management Module (GMM) Docs • Learn • Lab
Data management 		Cisco Kinetic Edge and Fog Processing Module (EFM) Docs • Learn • Lab
Thing connections 		Cisco Kinetic EFM Distributed Services (DSLink) Docs
Cisco Control Center Docs
Edge compute and app mgmt 		Cisco IOx Learn
SAS Event Stream Processing (ESP) Overview