Offshore staff
NOTTINHAM, UK — Cognitive Business has formed a new data analytics technology collaboration with power generation provider SSE and the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult.
ORE is a UK technology innovation and research center for offshore renewable energy.
Cognitive Business, which has worked on various wind farm projects, has developed decision support, performance monitoring and predictive maintenance solutions for offshore wind operations and maintenance.
Its new analytical technology is said to enable identification and automated diagnosis of fault conditions from data, allowing Cognitive to determine the operating condition and performance of a wind farm.
The company has deployed combinations of recognition algorithms, adding levels of automation that can identify how a wind farm should be operating, also assembling automated cross-turbine fault signatures from fault and failure datasets.
It claims this technology, named the A.I. Analyst, is the first of its type to determine when wind farms are not operating as they should, and also the causes.
Unlike more established condition monitoring technologies in wind that rely on daily averages, the Cognitive development draws on billions of machine learning micro-models and offers multiple levels of efficiency and accuracy, which is said to allow operators to detect and diagnose faults automatically and earlier.
That gives them the capability to minimize carbon emissions through more accurate deployment of crews and maximized production of green energy.
Earlier this week, Cognitive Business announced it joined forces with Weatherquest to integrate weather forecasts into its WAVES technology, which has already been implemented by RWE on its Robin Rigg wind farm.
WAVES is a data-driven tool that predicts with 99.9% accuracy the safest and most successful windows for crew transfers to offshore wind platforms, and the company said it is the first technology of its kind.
Also, a couple days ago, Marine Power Systems Ltd. announced it would be working with the Marine Energy Engineering Centre of Excellence, ORE Catapult and Swansea University to further optimize the configuration of its tension-leg platform, PelaFlex, and demonstrate its cost benefit compared to other designs.
08.26.2022
