DeTect specializes in delivery, integration and support of advanced, proven radar Bird Monitoring and Mitigation systems (BMMS) for both onshore and offshore wind energy projects. DeTect has delivered over 500 systems worldwide which are being used by developers, owners, operators and environmental consultants for bird and bat survey, mortality risk assessment, operational monitoring, and real-time risk mitigation. DeTect’s MERLIN™ BMMS integrates the advanced, fully automatic MERLIN Avian Radar System (ARS) with a wind farm’s SCADA network to create a real-time risk mitigation system for bird or bat mortality. MERLIN BMMS consists of additional software, hardware, and/or other data sensors that monitor the wind farm and assesses real-time mortality risk using mitigation rule sets. Alerts are automatically initiated, and risk mitigation measures are enacted when pre-defined risk thresholds are detected by the system. The MERLIN BMMS ultimately reduces both turbine downtime and bird or bat mortality risk by implementing mitigation measures in real time, and only during time periods of high mortality risk.
In response to the Dark Sky initiative to reduce light pollution and customer demand, DeTect also developed the HARRIER™ Aircraft Detection Lighting Systems (ADLS) for automatic obstruction lighting activation for aviation obstructions such as wind farm turbines, high voltage transmission lines and communication towers. The HARRIER ADLS provides reliable, continuous 360-degree radar surveillance of the airspace around wind farms, communications towers, power lines and installations that require aircraft obstruction lighting. From the ground level to above aircraft flight altitudes, ADLS automatically issuing signals to activate obstruction lighting when aircraft are detected at a defined outer perimeter. Lights are then turned off again once the aircraft has passed through the zone.
Please visit the DeTect booth 209 to learn more about BMMS and ADLS.