Patent ID: 8365005

Claim:
A wind power system comprising: a master clock; a first sensor configured to generate first event data from an event occurring in the wind power system; a second sensor configured to generate second event data from the event occurring in the wind power system; a first data processor including a first slave clock, the first data processor configured to communicate with the master clock for synchronizing the first slave clock to the master clock, to communicate with the first sensor to receive the first event data, and to time stamp the first event data in accordance with the slave clock to generate first time stamped event data; a second data processor including a second slave clock, the second data processor configured to communicate with the master clock for synchronizing the second slave clock to the master clock, to communicate with the second sensor to receive the second event data, and to time stamp the second event data in accordance with the slave clock to generate second time stamped event data; and an event information analyzer configured to receive the first and second time stamped event data from the first and second data processors, the event information analyzer configured to analyze the first and second time stamped event data for correlating the first time stamped event data with the second time stamped event data in the time domain to determine if the first event data and the second event data are related to a common triggering event.