Wind farm supports multiple wireless networks across the North Sea

French IoT specialist Kerlink is supplying low power gateways on multiple networks for wind farms in across the North Sea in a unique deployment.

One of the LoRaWAN gateways installed on the Borssele Alpha platform, managed by Dutch transmission system operator TenneT, links 700 MW of offshore wind farms to the Dutch power grid. The network, which was deployed and is operated bySkyLab, Kerlink’s partner in the Netherlands, enables a variety of safety applications, such as search and rescue (SAR) systems, life jackets with precision location capabilities, emergency-location beacons, and buoy trackers.

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The deployment, highlighted on Earth Day, uses outdoor industrial-grade LoRaWAN Kerlink Wirnet iStation gateways. The embed a dual packet forwarder that enables the orchestration of data transmission simultaneously on multiple LoRaWAN networks.

This helps to increase connectivity in the North Sea area for all potential users such as shippers, electricity providers and consumers, and businesses and area residents as private, public, or commercial networks can run simultaneously. The ability to deliver data to different types of servers allows to flexibly adapt to different types of use cases and shows the capacity and versatility of Kerlink gateways to support network sharing with other infrastructures, as well as the possibility to add more densification with different gateways.

“This LoRaWAN deployment is unique because it serves multiple-user LoRaWAN networks,” said SkyLab Director Remy de Jong. “It supplies IoT coverage to a challenging and sometimes harsh North Sea environment high above ground level on platforms and wind turbines. The result enables smart applications and all types of wireless sensors and devices where they have not been deployed previously.”

北海连通性将支持几种安全应用程序，例如搜索和救援操作，Skylab的紧急位置信标可以增强，并加快在“人口过头”情况下的救援。这些应用程序还将通过部署的网关启用气候和天气监控和资产跟踪