Machine-to-machine communication infrastructure for smart wind power farms

The development of wind power industry enables the new generation of wind turbines (WTs) with longer blades, taller towers, higher efficiency and lower maintenance cost by the maturity of the related technologies. With the advances in the communication technologies, smart wind power farms (S-WPFs) will be a reality in the near future. In this paper, we propose the machine-to-machine (M2M) communication infrastructure for the S-WPFs. The proposed architecture is designed to communicate directly among wind turbines. Therefore, each turbine can decide its operation in real time to maximize power generation, availability and lifetime. The network performance of proposed architectures is evaluated by analytical and simulation model.