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Weather Critical Operations

Product catalog summary
Overview
Lufft specializes in precise environmental sensors essential for weather-critical operations across various sectors such as offshore wind farms, solar parks, and infrastructure management, ensuring efficient and reliable operations.
Applications
Environmental sensors are crucial for plant protection, air quality monitoring, energy-efficient building management, and autonomous smart homes. They provide accurate weather data for safe aviation and efficient renewable energy operations.
Sensor Specifications
Lufft's sensors are known for high long-term stability, robustness, precise measurements, and reliable performance under extreme conditions. They support software upgrades and calibration for sustained accuracy.
Data Reliability and System Concept
Reliable data is vital for decision-making. Lufft emphasizes reference stations within networks to ensure data accuracy, with sensors providing data via open interfaces like GPRS, LAN, WLAN, and satellite.
Maintenance and Calibration
Lufft offers maintenance strategies including reactive, proactive, predictive, and availability-based approaches. Calibration and verification processes ensure accuracy, with options for user-performed secondary calibration.
Weather Parameters and Additional Sensors
Lufft provides sensors for road and runway conditions, fog detection, snow depth, and cloud height measurement, enhancing safety and efficiency.
Traffic and Airport Weather Management
Lufft's technology supports winter services and traffic management with real-time data on road conditions, wind, and visibility. For airports, sensors like MARWIS monitor runway conditions for safe landings and efficient de-icing.
Visibility and Cloud Height Measurement
Sensors like VS2k/VS20k measure visibility up to 20 km, with features like contamination detection. Ceilometers measure cloud height up to 15,000 meters, aiding climate change research.
Platforms and Variants
Lufft's platform concepts allow rapid development of new sensor variants. The Meteo-Smart series meets WMO standards for global weather observation.
Wind Turbines
Environmental sensors provide accurate data for optimal turbine alignment and energy yield in wind turbines, both onshore and offshore.
Wind Sensor Specifications and Requirements
  • Wind sensors must be ice-free, robust, precise, and capable of calibration. They undergo corrosion and vibration tests, MTBF assessment, and require a measurement certificate.
  • Accuracy is ensured through factory and on-site calibration. Interfaces include Modbus, ASCII, UMB, SDI12, and custom protocols.
Solar Energy Sensor Technology
  • Modular design allows for various pyranometer classes and sensor combinations, enhancing efficiency and safety. Accurate irradiation measurement is crucial for large PV systems.
  • Wind affects module temperature, impacting efficiency. Precipitation and temperature changes necessitate module and air temperature measurements.
  • Alternative technologies include GHI, GTI, and DHI, with data transmitted via Modbus to PV systems.
  • WMO standards ensure a large measuring range and long service life.
Company Achievements and Certifications
  • Lufft has received awards like the Industry Award 2015 and the Innovation Award of Baden-Württemberg. It is certified under DIN EN ISO 9001 and recognized as a top innovator.
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Weather Critical Operations The Right Decisions in Any Weather e · a passion for precision · passion pour la précision · pasión por la precisión · passione per la precision

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Applications Offshore wind farms and increasingly large solar parks play an important role in global energy supply. Our mobility knows no bounds. We rely on an infrastructure that functions efficiently - on land, in water or in the air. Experienced decision-makers ensure that “outdoor” technology operates flawlessly. Environmental sensors are indispensable here as the basis for decisions.

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Application Questions Can the plane land safely, even in tropical rainfall and winter conditions? Is the travel time for my route calculated correctly as a function of the weather conditions? Are there alternatives that are not restricted by the weather? Can I continue to operate the wind turbine under the prevailing wind conditions? Is the position of the turbine optimally aligned? Does my solar farm deliver the expected (energy) yield? Does my plant protection strategy work and does it prevent attack by insects or fungi? Can snow-making equipment be optimally controlled so that there is still...

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complex and must have a long service life. We also specified these requirements for our environmental sensors: > High long-term stability of the sensor > Very long service life > Extreme robustness > Precise measurements > Calibration capability of the sensor > Reliable measurement even under extreme conditions > Software upgrades

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Applications > Proactive runway management Safe winter roads with optimal salt application > Automatic spreading > Environmentally friendly agricultural applications > Efficient plant control for renewable energies > Production of artificial snow > Energy efficient buildings System Concept Individual sensors or modular-designed all-in-one sensors supply data via an open interface for further processing. Whether GPRS, LAN, WLAN or satellite transmission, the necessary infrastructure to provide real-time data for decision-making is available worldwide. Reliable Measurement Data Big Data provides...

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What type of maintenance do you want for your environmental sensors? Reactive (in case of faults) with regular maintenance intervals? Or proactive with timely replacement of critical components? Predictive, taking account of probabilities of failure? Or availability-based, i.e. you expect data delivery, for example, in 99.5% of all possible cases? On this basis, verification and calibration activities can be performed on your measuring systems. Calibration (traceability) Environmental sensors can be laboratory tested, including traceability. In the best case, the characteristic curve of the sensor...

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M atrix As well as measuring typical weather parameters such as air temperature, relative humidity, air pressure, wind and precipitation, weather-critical applications require additional sensors to provide further information. Cloud height > Road and runway conditions > Wetness measurement for speed adjustment > Fog detection > Snow depth measurement > Cloud height measurement for safe landing of aircraft and helicopters > Redundant sensor technology for maximum reliability

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Road / Runway Conditions IRS31 pro Mobile Stationary Installed in asphalt Non-contact measurement Freezing temperature Surface temperature Depth temperature sensor(s) Condition Water film Friction Temperature / Relative Humidity / Air Pressure WS3000 Redundant air pressure (opt.) Calibration certificate Metal hou

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ice earlylwarnirigsystems^elp you temperate a proactive winter service and keep critical microclimates '' % ' m ' V such as Dridgesiponst^tly in view. Mobile and stationary measuring technology gives you information at any time - not only about individual •- • vT,.*' - . measuring points, but also about the road conditions throughout your entire road network. Traffic Management Systems (TMS) require real-time, information, not only about road conditions but also aboul ? -7 wind conditions (on bridges) as well as visibility, in order t to display the optimum speed in each case via variable . ....

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Water film height is measured in micrometers. From as little as 10 micrometers, a road is no longer dry. With more than 700 micrometers (0.7 mm), there is a risk of aquaplaning. A single measurement point is often not representative of the actual road condition. Optical, non-contact methods sample a representative surface area instead of a point. They also measure up to 100 times per second, while the measuring vehicle is in motion. The grip depends on the tire, the asphalt and the water / snow / ice layer. This weather-related intermediate layer is the key factor as far as friction is concerned....

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Snow Depth LaserTechnology Clearing and spreading or just spreading? What is the cost to the municipality for the subcontractor to carry out winter maintenance? It is important to know the precise snow depths. Due to climate changes, weather experts no longer expect snowfalls to be regular, but rather heavier.

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Despite long-term warming, snowfall intensity is actually increasing. Snow depth measurements are an integral part of meteorological measuring networks. Winter services and ski regions need precise information on snow depth, whether for slope preparation or proac tive clearing. In most cases, the point measurement with a single laser is sufficient. Independent of temperature, wind and relative humidity, the measurement result is highly accurate in all conditions. The measurement method of the SHM31 is based on a combination of phase comparison and time of flight. The platform-independent UMB-Config...

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Airport Weather Safe Landing With regard to landing safety, pilots and technical airport management communicate via the so-called RCC (runway condition code). This RCC must be known over the entire length of the runway. Today‘s experience-based process can be supported by modern measurement technology. In this way, the exchanged information is clearly documented and traceable. > MARWIS does not record the conditions at a single point, but over the entire length of the runway > Built-in sensors measure the current runway conditions > Atmospheric sensors are used to permanently adjust the short-term...

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