Offshore Wind Farms Surveillance
Situational awareness around offshore wind farms
Offshore wind farms surveillance is crucial to prevent intrusion, sabotage and other potential threats. With increasing reliance on wind power, protecting this critical infrastructure is more important than ever. The maritime environment challenges require a sophisticated and reliable surveillance solution.
Offshore Wind Farms Surveillance: Main Challenges
Detecting objects with moving wind turbine blades
Traditional detection algorithms may have difficulty to detect a target amongst wind turbines blades rotating.
Intrusion prevention
Requirement to detect suspicious activity from a very great distance, enabling security forces to intervene before an intrusion materializes. This is crucial, especially at night or in low-visibility conditions.
Operational safety
Ensuring the safety of workers and operations requires 24X7 monitoring, detecting any potential danger and helping to coordinate operational safety measures.
Offshore Wind Farms Surveillance: Main Threats
Sabotage and terrorism
Offshore wind farms can be prime targets for sabotage or terrorist attacks, aimed at disrupting energy production or creating a crisis situation. Enhanced security is needed to deter attacks, protect assets and ensure continuity of operations. Acts of sabotage against offshore energy infrastructures could have disastrous consequences, both economically and in terms of public safety.
Intrusion and theft
Offshore wind farms are equipped with technologies such as control systems and very expensive generators. The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) points out that theft of such technology and operational data can lead to significant losses for operators. Surveillance is therefore crucial to detect intrusions in real time, whether they come from attempts to gain access by sea or from the air using drones.
Offshore Wind Farms Security Solution
With Spynel Panoramic Infrared Cameras
HGH Infrared Systems has developed an innovative panoramic solution detecting and categorizing long-range threats. The SPYNEL infrared camera range protects any kind of critical infrastructures or military assets thanks to a 360° camera. Fully passive, the SPYNEL camera ensures real-time panoramic video and automatic detection, classification & tracking.
How to secure Offshore Wind Farms?
Why choosing Spynel for Offshore Wind Farms Surveillance?
360° Infrared Imaging Technology
Infrared (IR) cameras are employed to capture thermal radiation emitted by objects, making them suitable for day and night surveillance. These cameras can detect and classify objects based on heat signature, enabling the detection of objects hardly detectable by radars such as stealthy targets having a low RCS.
The camera covers a wide field of view, typically 180 degrees or more. In addition of the detection itself, the provided situational awareness gives great contextual information in order to bring the most adapted answer.
Automatic Classification
Automatic classification of maritime and air targets thanks to deep learning algorithms. Fusion of the alarms with AIS signal (identify friend or foe).
Smart alarm filtering (speed, trajectory, size,…) and automatic response (screenshot, e-mail, video, etc…); Smart virtual fences
Easy integration with existing security systems
Multi-layer coastal surveillance with integration and fusion of radar alarms.
Long range identification capabilities with interfacing with Pan Tilt Zoom (PTZ) cameras.
Integration with Search Lights and LRAD devices for counterreaction.
Integration with navigational & monitoring software (Vessel Traffic Systesm – VTS).
Integration into third-part Video Management System (VMS) – ONVIF Profile S compliant
Remote Monitoring Capabilities
SPYNEL offers remote monitoring capabilities, enabling real-time observation from a centralized location. This feature enhances the safety of monitoring personnel and facilitates continuous, unobtrusive surveillance.
