Patent ID: 9362858
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: F03D,F05B,G05B,H02P,Y02E

Claim Text:
1. A system for operating a wind or water turbine farm comprising a plurality of turbines comprising: a computing device; means for providing operational data relating to the plurality of turbines over a period of time to the computing device; a computer-readable medium coupled to the computing device and having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the computing device, causes the computing device to: arrange the operational data for each turbine into an array comprising a time series relating to the period of time, operational data relating to the plurality of turbines, and having a first dimension corresponding to the plurality of turbines; in which a value for an operating parameter at a particular point in time is processed to give a value, for each turbine, for how long the turbine has been operating at a particular operating parameter value, in which a cumulative amount of time each wind turbine has spent at the particular operating parameter is given by the width of the panel, and a further array is formed comprising the first dimension of the array, a second dimension corresponds to the values of the operating parameter and each element of the further array is the cumulative amount of time each wind turbine has spent at the particular operating parameter, generate a graphical user interface; generate within the graphical user interface a graphical representation of the array in which the graphical representation is a rectangular array of panels, one axis of the rectangle corresponding to the second dimension of the further array, another axis to the elements of the further array, the member of the graphical representation of the further array is the panel, and a visual indicator for each panel corresponding to values of the first dimension of the further array; assign a visual indicator to a member of the graphical representation of the array; whereby the graphical representation identifies to an operator of the wind or water turbine farm variations from the norm of particular wind turbines requiring maintenance.