Patent ID: 8433425

Claim:
A method of configuring rules for SCADA data of a wind farm comprising: receiving supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) data for a wind farm comprised of one or more wind turbines, wherein said SCADA data includes parameters for the wind farm; dynamically configuring at least a portion of the SCADA data for a selected group of the wind farm parameters using a graphical user interface (GUI) that interfaces with a rules engine, wherein said SCADA data is configured using one or more operators; and outputting at least a portion of the dynamically configured data, wherein the GUI comprises a dynamic context sensitive picker for entering a rule into the rules engine, wherein the dynamic context sensitive picker filters and dynamically displays the SCADA data being received based upon the selected group of wind farm parameters for the rule being entered, said filtering and display based on a probability distribution of previous usage of the SCADA data for the selected group of wind farm parameters and the filtering and display occurring concurrently and dynamically with the entering of the rule.