The wireless sensors, used to access information from the physical world, are serving as support for many different applications in different industrial sectors (domotic, military environments, environmental detection …); they allow remote monitoring of really useful parameters such as temperature, humidity, pressure, etc. These devices are able to collect data, communicate with each other and distribute the data via radio to information centers, forming in this way intelligent networks which can integrate previously independent functionalities.

The application of wireless sensor networks for monitoring wind turbines opens new lines of research in the field of wind energy and external monitoring of meteorological and environmental parameters that enable the analysis of the wind farm’s behavior and profitability.

The main goal of this project is to make a technical feasibility study to gather the requirements and technical features that a wireless sensor network should have in order to cover the needs of meteorological and environmental monitoring, which allows to determine the efficiency, reliability and profitability associated with wind farms. As a result of the study, a test prototype will be implemented and the strategy to develop an industrial product will be established.

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