A method for authorizing a user for a control access to at least one wind turbine or at least one wind farm is disclosed. In this method, a certification center first authenticates a user, and the certification center accepts a control-access type from the authenticated user. The certification center then generates an electronic certificate according to the accepted control-access type and/or according to stored access permissions of the authenticated user. Then the certificate is used for authentication with the wind turbine or with the wind farm for the purpose of performing a control access. A system for performing the method and also relates to a certification center and to an interface of a wind turbine or of a wind farm.

In one aspect, a system for monitoring and controlling the operation of wind turbines located within a wind farm may generally include first and second wind turbines. The first wind turbine may include a first turbine controller configured to monitor an operating parameter(s) associated with the first wind turbine and provide a first control interface for controlling the operation of the first wind turbine. The second wind turbine may include a second turbine controller configured to monitor an operating parameter(s) associated with the second wind turbine and provide a second control interface for controlling the operation of the second wind turbine. The system may also include a secondary computing device coupled to the second turbine controller. The second turbine controller may be configured to provide the secondary computing device access to the first control interface in order to allow the operation of the first wind turbine to be controlled.

A method for the access management of a wind turbine controller of a wind turbine with an operating software. The method comprises receiving a user identification with one of several user interfaces and assigning the user identification or a portion of the user identification to an access group. One or several authorization groups of an overall number of authorization groups is allocated to the access group, and one or several output value storage locations and/or input value storage locations are allocated to each authorization group. The method further encompasses allowing an access from the user interface to all output value storage locations and/or input value storage locations that are allocated to the assigned access group via the authorization groups. The disclosure further relates to a computer product, a wind turbine controller, and a wind turbine with a wind turbine controller.

A control system for a dynamic system including at least one measurement sensor. The system includes at least one computing device configured to generate and transmit at least one regulation device command signal to at least one regulation device to regulate operation of the dynamic system based upon at least one inferred characteristic.

A wind farm supervision monitoring method includes: displaying, by a user interface (UI) unit, a location of the site server on a map along with a dashboard menu, a navigation menu, and an alarm & event menu; collecting, by a data collection unit, data about status monitoring of each wind turbine from the site server; detecting, by an abnormality status detection unit, an abnormality status of each wind turbine based on the data about the status monitoring of each wind turbine and issuing an alarm based on the detecting the abnormality status; providing, by a supervision unit, a turbine operation status of each wind turbine using the dashboard menu, managing operation and maintenance; and establishing, by the supervision unit, an operation and maintenance plan for the detected abnormality status of the wind turbine.

The disclosure relates to a method for operating a wind turbine. The method comprises providing several software modules as an operating software for operating the wind turbine, wherein the software modules each have at least one communications input and/or at least one communications output, as well as providing a configuration list with several entries, wherein the entries assign to a respective communications input of a software module a communications output of another software module. For each entry, the method further comprises transmitting information of the respective entry to a software module of the software modules with at least one communications input which allows the software module to access data of the communications output of another software module, which in the entry is assigned to the communications input, and operating the wind turbine with the software modules. The disclosure further relates to a computer program product, a wind turbine controller for a wind turbine, and a wind turbine with a controller.

A wind turbine is provided. The wind turbine includes a plurality of control systems. The wind turbine further includes a reflective memory system. The plurality of control systems is coupled with the reflective memory system. Each of the plurality of control systems may include a respective memory of the reflective memory system. In response to data being written into one of the respective memories, the reflective memory system may automatically replicate the data to other respective memories.

A automative management server for receiving information technology system events and wind turbine events; correlating the information technology system event with the wind turbine event to determine a cause of an event; and generating an alert reporting the cause of the event or taking action to resolve the root cause of the event.

The present invention relates to methods, apparatus and computer program products for controlling a wind turbine that comprises a nacelle and one or more turbine blades to reduce or prevent edgewise vibrations building up on the one or more turbine blades. It is identified 202 whether the nacelle is unable to yaw to an upwind position and initiating a corrective action 203 to prevent edgewise vibrations building up on the one or more turbine blades if the nacelle is unable to yaw to an upwind position.

An Equipment Health Monitoring method for an engine and an Equipment Health Monitoring system for performing the method are provided. At least some of the following units are used: an Engine Simulation Unit, a Possibilistic Drift Computation Unit, a Fuzzy String Generator Unit, an Experience-based String Matching Unit and an Information Fusion and Prognosis Unit.