Patent ID: 8782187

Claim:
A system for monitoring a status of communication in a wind farm network from a remote device, the system comprising: a first wind turbine comprising a first network node communicatively coupled to the wind farm network; a server comprising: a first communication interface communicatively coupled to the wind farm network and programmed to: detect the first network node, wherein the first network node is stored in a collection of detected network nodes; and determine a first connection status for the first network node in the collection of detected network nodes, the first connection status comprising a quantity of data transmitted by the first network node, a quantity of data received by the first network node, an elapsed time since the server became capable of communicating with the first network node, and a date and a time at which the server became capable of communicating with the first network node and indicating whether the server is capable of communicating with the first network node; a second communication interface communicatively coupled to the remote device and configured to transmit a network state comprising the first connection status to the remote device; and, a first processor operatively coupled to the first communication interface and the second communication interface; and, a remote device configured to: receive the network state from the server; and display a graphical representation of the network state, wherein the graphical representation indicates whether the server is capable of communicating with the first network node.