Patent ID: 8277183

Claim:
A method for monitoring a wind turbine using a combined supervisory command and data acquisition (SCADA) and video monitoring system, said method comprising: receiving video data at a video server from at least one video camera, the video data related to operating conditions of the wind turbine; receiving numerical data at a SCADA server from at least one SCADA element, the numerical data related to operating conditions of the wind turbine; receiving a command at the SCADA server from a remote monitoring server, the command relating to at least a portion of the numerical data, the portion of the numerical data associated with at least a portion of the video data receiving a command at the video server from the remote monitoring server, the command relating to the portion of the video data associated with the portion of the SCADA data; retrieving the portion of the video data and the portion of the numerical data; and, transmitting the portion of the numerical data and the portion of the video data from the SCADA server and the video server, respectively, via a first network and a second network, respectively, to the remote monitoring server for presentation to a user.