Modern society becomes more and more dependent on wind energy, meaning windfarms, especially if they are offshore, are increasingly interesting targets for hostile entities. The size of offshore windfarms and their remoteness in the open sea, pose a multitude of threats to these assets. They need day and night surveillance, being vulnerable to many types of threats: from collisions with a ship or a fishing boat, to vandalism, cable thefts and terrorism acts. Offshore wind farms are indeed part of a country’s “vital interests” and must therefore be protected against terrorist attacks.
Benefits of the SPYNEL solution for 24/7 Offshore Windfarm Security:
The SPYNEL solution is not disturbed by vibrations, and thus by wind turbine blades, unlike radars, whose performance is reduced due to false echoes, saturation and shadowing caused by wind turbines. Moreover, radars do not detect small boats, unlike the SPYNEL Thermal Imager solution, which is able to detect, identify, classify and track threats such as RHIBs and wooden boats:
The SPYNEL sensor can be installed on the shore and monitor the offfshore windfarm directly from the coast. Below, the green circle represents the recognition range :
However, it can be complicated to monitor an offshore wind farm from the coast: these are usually deployed very far from the shore. This does not pose a problem for the SPYNEL solution, which is robust enough to be installed on the high seas and to withstand the corrosive marine environment.
SPYNEL can be installed :
In the field of energy and renewable energy, the SPYNEL solution and its CYCLOPE software can also be deployed to ensure the security of gas compression sites, electrical substations, dams or solar farms .
HGH is a electro-optical devices global provider. The company provides wide area surveillance, industrial thermography and electro-optical test solutions.