Blogs and cases
Blogs and customer cases
More robust air leak monitoring for power transformers – Total Gas Pressure
- Power Generation and Transmission
Ever-increasing efficiency targets concern all industries and their assets. Power transformers are no different. Maximizing and extending their...
Prototyping with Modbus
- Industrial Manufacturing and Processes
- Industrial Measurements
- Life Science
Are you prototyping, or looking for an affordable way of measuring humidity and temperature in your application without compromising the quality...
New South Wales empowering urban weather research with schools
- Environmental and Public Health Protection
- Meteorology
- Weather & Environment
A citizen science outreach program: Schools Weather and Air Quality (SWAQ) by the University of New South Wales , Australia has been announced...
Safer, smoother offshore wind farm construction with lightning activity monitoring
- Maritime
- Weather & Environment
The continued growth of offshore wind power has led to high demand of wind turbine installation vessels (WTIV). With vessels in high demand...
Vaisala provides Estonian Transport Administration with critical road weather technology
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
Vaisala has signed a four-year frame agreement with the Estonian Transport Administration (Transpordiamet) for road weather stations throughout...
Using online DGA to safeguard a transformer's end-of-life operation
- Power Generation and Transmission
The following case study explores the detection of severe faults and the overall monitoring process and procedure during an old transformer's...
Made in Vaisala, or how the cleanroom is the key to robust technology.
- Power Generation and Transmission
Robust science is about creating instruments that will work in the harshest environments – where longevity counts and zero maintenance is often...
Successful winter road maintenance strategies
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
Road weather technology is critical for winter and summer road maintenance as well as the automotive industry since effective operations can all...
Discover more about hurricanes to prepare for them better
- Meteorology
Even though the Atlantic has been quiet for the past month, the 2021 Hurricane Season got off to a record start , and the peak of the season is...
Service center expansion enables global support of the enhanced WindCube vertical profiler
- Renewable energy
- Weather & Environment
- Wind energy
For more than fifteen years Vaisala has endeavored to offer its clients the best possible service across five continents. To address industry...
WindCube enhancements: Key highlights, including Factory Validation with a Golden lidar by DNV
- Renewable energy
- Weather & Environment
- Wind energy
Earlier this year, we announced measurement enhancements and new service capabilities for the WindCube® vertical profiling lidar. We reviewed...
Improved volcanic ash detection at La Palma Airport
- Aviation
The ceilometer’s small form factor and ease of setup meant that the AEMET team could locate it where it was most scientifically valuable.
The use cases for dual scanning lidar: answers to your questions
- Renewable energy
- Weather & Environment
- Wind energy
With the recent WindCube® Scan Dual Lidar Ready announcement and associated webinar , we have received many questions from wind energy players...
Hyperlocal air quality monitoring network
- Weather & Environment
Lahti installed two Vaisala Beam Stations, each one featuring the Vaisala Air Quality Transmitter AQT530 and Weather Transmitter WXT536.
WPD: Reducing uncertainty, reducing costs
- Renewable energy
- Weather & Environment
- Wind energy
Creating a strategic offshore wind resource assessment (WRA) campaign with scanning lidar Germany-based wpd plans and operates wind projects...
Robust science – or what makes our technology different
- Power Generation and Transmission
At Vaisala, everything we do is based on scientific knowledge, exploring the new, and uncovering what cannot be seen by human senses alone. This...
Comparing WindCube lidars to met masts for PPT
- Renewable energy
- Weather & Environment
- Wind energy
A real-world, concurrent validation study The challenge: Validate lidar performance relative to met masts for contractual power curve testing A...
Maximizing indoor farming potential by controlling costs with accurate measurement
Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), including vertical farms, container farms, aeroponics, and aquaculture, is attracting entrepreneurs...
Powering wind energy in France
- Renewable energy
- Weather & Environment
AKROCEAN uses WindCube Offshore to enable new offshore development Project details Location: South Brittany, France Lidar type/setup: 2x buoy...
Offshore wind development is booming
- Maritime
- Weather & Environment
How to secure more reliable weather window estimates for efficient and safe offshore wind farm installations? Offshore wind development is...