Patent ID: 8155923

Claim:
A system for validating an operation of a wind turbine, the system comprising: a controller operatively coupled to the wind turbine, the controller comprising a first communication interface; and, a remote device comprising: an output device configured to prompt a user to select a plurality of types of wind turbine operating data to request from the wind turbine and to select at least one criterion identifying a subset of the wind turbine operating data to request from the wind turbine; a user input device configured to enable the user to select multiple types of the plurality of types of wind turbine operating data to request from the wind turbine and to select the at least one criterion, and to submit a request including the multiple types of wind turbine operating data selected by the user and the subset of the selected type of wind turbine operating data identified by the at least one criterion, the wind turbine operating data comprising at least one of a recorded sensor signal, a recorded fault condition, and a recorded controller state; a first processor operatively coupled to the user input device and programmed to compose a plurality of commands corresponding to the submitted request; and, a second communication interface operatively coupled to the first processor and communicatively coupled to the first communication interface, the second communication interface configured to sequentially transmit the composed commands to the first communication interface and sequentially receive responses from the first communication interface, each response comprising the wind turbine operating data corresponding to one of the transmitted commands, wherein the second communication interface is programmed to receive a respective response from the first communication device based on the transmitted command before transmitting a next one of the composed commands.