Dear Friends of RTDT,
We hope you are doing well.
Here is your first ever update from RTDT!
In this newsletter we introduce RTDT, our mission, the origin story, the product, the value proposition, and the team behind RTDT.
Do I know the health state (structural integrity) of my wind turbines? This is a question every owner of wind farms and manufacturer of wind turbines should ask themselves. Unplanned costs due to failures, make up more than half of total maintenance costs, and the simple truth is: only a reliable plant earns money. Online monitoring, diagnostics, and data analytics will be the main tools to lower maintenance costs.
RTDT is a No-code end-to-end Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) software for condition and Structural Health Monitoring of wind turbines. It is a wind turbine doctor.
Our mission is to make condition and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of wind turbines effortless for wind farm owners, engineers, managers, and non-experts. Our technology stack lowers the barriers to entry to users and enhances their capabilities to deploy scalable, research-based, state-of-the-art models and algorithms to extract deep interpretable and actionable insights, in minutes, in a no-code environment.
Cloud-based wind turbine doctor
RTDT Laboratories AG was founded in 2022, in Zurich, Switzerland, as a spin-off from ETH Zurich.
RTDT is a spin-off endeavour stemming from fundamental research produced as part of the ERC Starting Grant WINMDIL at the Chair of Structural Mechanics and Monitoring, ETH Zurich, on the topic of "Smart Monitoring, Inspection and Life-Cycle Assessment of Wind Turbines", awarded by the European Research Council (ERC). The WINMDIL research output is now being packaged into a platform which forms the basis of the RTDT spin-off.
The research in the WINDMIL project and RTDT were conducted in collaboration with OSMOS GROUP (experts in SHM and instrumentation). As part of our research collaboration, OSMOS granted us access to three large wind turbines, which we instrumented with various sensors’ networks.
More recently, RTDT has partnered with the Zurich-based start-up Adranis GmbH (specialists in IT, HPC, cloud and scientific computing) to build with us the scientific computational backend of the RTDT PaaS.
The first closed Alpha release of RTDT is now live.
**Contact us to learn more about RTDT, the API, the SHM models & algorithms, to get a product demo or to receive access credentials to the API and the RTDT Console.**
Problem. Today’s market for wind turbines condition and structural health monitoring and diagnostics is heavily siloed and reliant on specialized single use case software & data.
***Establishing on-premise capabilities for monitoring is cumbersome & expensive.***10-20% increase in additional R&D expenditure, and 2-5 additional manpower per year with deep technical expertise.
Lack of holistic view of turbine fleet health due to incompatibility amongst software. Unplanned costs due to failures on wind turbines make up 50% of total maintenance costs due to incoherent O&M planning and bad decisions detrimental to assets lifetime.
Mis-management of models, data & compute infrastructure. Loss of crucial turbine health insights due to siloed output information in each software and its IT infrastructure, leading to a loss of CHF 10 per megawatt-hour in levelized cost of electricity