The Danish National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy – Riso / DTU, together with Noliac Motion, Innowacja Polska and EC Electronics Sp., has invented a sensor systems, that will allow operators of offshore wind farms to check the wind turbines from dry land.
This is made possible by incorporating sensors into the wind turbine blades to discover changes and damage in the blade structure at an early stage before the blade breaks. Remote monitoring of damage to off-shore wind turbines could save money, because the intervals between inspections can be increased.