The IBM supercomputer will maximize the energy output of a Danish Wind Turbine Manufacturer
Everyday, we are witnessing and appreciating how big data concepts help to make the businesses more efficient, how it helps to medical people make better decisions, how it prevents traffic accidents and etc.
One of the appreciable concepts that is mentioned above ,is of course the energy. That is very obvious that human beings have to to something for the expected energy need. Scientists have been trying to find the ways to solve these issues which most of the countries will face either sooner or later.
In his article, Martin Lamonica mentions about a big data project which IBM firestorm supercomputer will analyze petabytes of weather related data to optimize the Vestas Wind Turbines and maximize performance over time.
A wind farm in North Dakota
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Prediction of the energy output from the wind turbines is vitally important for the investors who puts up the money for the wind farms.
The IBM computer will help to determine the best place to planes to turbine via crunching through weather reports, moon and tidal phase, sensor data, satellite images, and deforestation maps.Once installed, Vestas engineers will use the software to predict future performance and figure out the best time to do maintenance.
According to the article, IBM said the software took four years to develop and will run on the Apache Hadoop software for parallel processing of very large data sets. This sort of analysis used to take weeks, but can be done in under an hour, IBM said.
Big Data in the energy industry has led to great advancements in the production and implementation of renewable energy farms across the globe. I have written an article about how 3TIER has been using their resources to determine where an energy farm should be build based on weather data over the past forty or so years: http://auburnbigdata.blogspot.com/2013/03/3tier-uses-big-data-for-energy.html.
ReplyDeleteLike how you have mentioned IBM is using big data in weather reports, moon and tidal phase, sensor data, satellite images, and deforestation maps, to determine how to maximize the usage and placement of Vesta's wind turbines, 3TIER is using big data in helping companies and investors determine what type of energy farm is most profitable to implement as a better energy alternative.