400 images a second: IRIDA's bird monitoring goes live at RWE's Mondonuovo wind farm
IRIDA AI Technologies has deployed its AI bird monitoring system at RWE's Mondonuovo wind farm in Italy.
The system turns millions of pixels into usable environmental information, second by second:
- 16 high-resolution AI cameras
- 128 megapixels of combined sensing capacity
- 25 frames analysed per camera, every second
- More than 400 images processed every second, in real time
All processing runs at the edge, on site. The system continuously scans the airspace and detects, tracks and classifies birds around the wind farm. This gives the operator an accurate, live picture of bird activity. The same data supports biodiversity reporting and sustainable operation of the wind farm.
Mondonuovo is one of several RWE sites in Italy protected by IRIDA, alongside San Severo in Apulia, where Bird Protect™ Day, Night & Bat runs together with Forest Protect™ wildfire detection.
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About IRIDA AI Technologies: an Athens-based green-tech company that protects birds, bats and forests at wind farms with AI. Its Bird Protect™, Bat Protect™ and Forest Protect™ systems detect wildlife and wildfire in real time and trigger automated turbine responses through Shutdown on Demand. IRIDA has 643 systems installed and contracted at 93 wind farms in 12 countries on 2 continents. Protecting biodiversity. Enabling wind energy.
