Monitoring for Operational Wind Farms
Missing critical activity leads regulators into conservative assumptions. Capture complete flight data and reduce unnessesary curtailment.
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Data uncertainty leads to conservative collision risk models
Conservative assumptions leaeduced turbine number and over-curtailment to account for uncertain activity
Turning Data into Operational Insights
Spoor's continuous camera-based monitoring fills the gaps traditional surveys leave — helping developers minimise curtailment and maximise energy yield.
Monitor
Continuous detection and tracking of bird and bat activity across the selected area — day and night, in all weather conditions.
Validate
AI-assisted and expert-validated species identification for species-specific collision risk modeling, and permit compliance.
Put bird activity in context
Link flight patterns, height and frequency to wind speed, turbine speed, weather, seasons, and time of day for smarter decision-making.
Deliver outputs and data reports
Export structured datasets via the Sky Intelligence Platform — ready for use by environmental consultancies and regulators.
Improve over time
Use longitudinal data to minimise curtailment, reduce buffer zones, and confidently maximise energy yield.
Richer data leads to maximised production potential
Example: Traditional surveys in The UK
- Daylight & weather dependent
- Activity outside monitoring hours and nocturnal activity remains unmonitored
- Visual height estimates introduce error margins that overstate risk
Spoor
- Operates in all weather conditions
- Monitoring from dusk till dawn — night time monitoring available
- Consistent automated species-level detection
- Site-specific rotor-zone data with precise flight height
- Structured data available in Sky Intelligence Platform ready to be used for collision risk modelling
Turbine Interaction Monitoring
Monitoring of bird behaviour within the turbine collision risk zone — producing the data needed for collision risk assessment, avoidance behaviour analysis, and curtailment design.
- Automated event classification — every bird entering the collision risk zone is classified as a non-interaction, interaction, or potential collision
- 3D flight trajectory reconstruction — stereo-vision cameras triangulate precise bird positions relative to the rotor swept area, without relying on assumed bird size
- Species-specific interaction rates — avoidance distances and interaction counts broken down by species over time
- Third party-validated accuracy — BTO independently confirmed high-accuracy 3D trajectories within 500m of the monitored turbine, at Vattenfall's Aberdeen Bay offshore wind farm
Reduce Risks Across the Entire Wind Farm Lifecycle
Challenge
Buffer zones based on limited survey data remove significant developable land. With regulators relying on as little as 70–80 survey hours per year, buffers are routinely oversized — reducing turbine count and slowing permitting.
Solution
Continuous bird and bat monitoring delivering 4,000+ daytime hours (8,000+ including bats), with AI-driven species identification, 3D flight path mapping, and actual collision risk assessment.
Outcomes
- Unlock restricted land and add turbines safely
- Reduce or eliminate oversized buffer zones
- Improve layout flexibility, reduce wake loss, and increase annual energy production
- Accelerate permitting with transparent, regulator-ready data
Spoor Sky Intelligence Platform
A software platform for the detection, classification and tracking of birds and bats.
- Continuous monitoring and species detection with human validation
- Analytical support via correlation with weather, radar and historical bird activity data
- Report-ready tables and figures for EIA submissions
- Easy data exports for consultants and regulators
Proven in Live Wind Projects
Spoor's technology is already deployed in real-world wind energy environments, delivering continuous wildlife monitoring at scale.
- Advanced AI and computer vision is trained on 1M+ birds
- Bird detections at 1,5 km distance
- Bird and bat detections with ≥ 95% accuracy
- Proofed in low light, night and bad conditions
- Deployment onshore and offshore on 4 continents
Reduce the Biodiversity Risks with Spoor
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