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How IoT Sensors Prevent Wind Turbine Blade Icing
Offshore wind farms lose millions when ice builds up on turbine blades, forcing shutdowns and risking catastrophic imbalance. Lucas and Luna explore how a German startup, BladeSense, mounts piezoelectric vibration sensors inside the blade's trailing edge to detect ice formation before it's visible. BladeSense's system, deployed on 200 turbines in the North Sea, correlates sensor data with weather models and automatically triggers a controlled de-icing cycle using internal heating elements — reducing downtime by 60 percent in winter months. They discuss the physics of blade icing, why…
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