News:

7 April 2022:

Stuttgart Wind Energy receives the third Laser Scanner, along with several hardware and software upgrades of the first two scanners.

12 May 2021:

Stuttgart Wind Energy orders the third Laser Scanner, to be delivered by end of 2021, for use in an experimental campaign in early 2022 with several laser scanners.

27 April 2021:

The second Laser Scanner was delivered to Stuttgart Wind Energy.

20 December 2020:

OpticSense has been licensed to offer the Laser Scanner in the wind energy research and industry market.

Instrument specifications:

• 52° full scan angle, horizontal and vertical
• Pre-defined user-selectable scan patterns
• Simultaneous wind speed data in up to 37 range gates at arbitrary distances
• Measuring range exceeding 500 m, depending on aerosol conditions
• Full profile data rate selectable between 0.1 and 1 s
• Wind data in csv/tdms format, wind and auxiliary data in HDF5 format
• Data available in near real-time, 3-months internal storage
• IP68 rated compact design in a single box
• Dimensions: 65 cm long, Ø 35 cm.
• Mass: 34 kg.

25 September 2019:
Laser Scanner Prototype was delivered to Stuttgart Wind Energy.

29 March 2018:
wind lidar delivered to Fraunhofer IPM, Freiburg, Germany.

24 April 2017:
OpticSense contracted by Stuttgart Wind Energy to design and build a Wind Lidar Scanner.

14 September 2016:

Two lidars, installed on 8 April 2016 on a Siemens SWT-3.6-120 wind turbine in the offshore wind park RIFFGAT, were recovered after five months of successful operation.

The goal was to monitor meandering wake turbulences behind the rotor, a parameter of interest for a better understanding of wake effects in large wind farms, studied in the project GW Wakes at ForWind Center for Wind Energy Research.