Bird Protect
Bird Protect Pro
Advanced bird protection for demanding wind farm environments
Bird Protect Pro is designed for wind farms where higher bird activity, challenging site conditions, or stricter environmental requirements demand enhanced monitoring performance. Its advanced multi-sensor configuration provides extended coverage and greater tracking precision, supporting effective mitigation even in complex operating environments.
Enhanced coverage. Greater precision. Advanced protection.
What it does
Bird Protect Pro continuously detects and tracks bird activity around the turbine, providing enhanced monitoring performance across the surrounding airspace.
The system is particularly effective in environments with high levels of bird activity and where smaller or fast-moving birds require more precise detection and tracking.
Enhanced AI-powered bird detection for demanding wind farm environments
Bird Protect™ Pro is IRIDA's enhanced optical bird detection and collision-risk mitigation solution, developed for wind farms requiring more comprehensive airspace monitoring and advanced detection capabilities.
Building on IRIDA's proven Edge AI architecture, Pro uses an expanded fixed-camera configuration to monitor bird activity, analyse movement and support automated protective actions.
The system combines continuous optical surveillance, real-time AI processing, configurable acoustic deterrence and turbine integration within a scalable architecture.
Bird Protect Pro is particularly suitable for projects with demanding environmental requirements, complex site characteristics or increased bird activity.
Advanced 3D intelligence
3D Bird Tracking & Precision Ranging
Know where the bird is. Understand where it is going. Act at the right moment.
Bird Protect™ Pro goes beyond conventional bird detection. Using multiple calibrated optical cameras and intelligent AI processing, the system estimates each bird's position and movement in three-dimensional space.
By combining different camera perspectives, information from the surrounding landscape and visual measurements of the bird, Pro builds a continuously updated 3D flight track.
This helps determine not only whether a bird has been detected, but also how far it is from the turbine, which direction it is flying and whether its trajectory could bring it into the rotor-swept area.
Distance
Estimated distance to the turbine — the basis for distance-based, project-specific mitigation decisions.
Direction
Current flight direction — showing where each tracked bird is heading within the monitored airspace.
Trajectory
3D flight path and approach to the rotor area — indicating whether a bird's route could bring it into the rotor-swept area.
What this means for your project
- More informed, distance-based mitigation decisions
- Helps protect wildlife while reducing unnecessary turbine interventions
- Decision distances aligned with project-specific requirements
- Feeds the risk assessment behind adaptive curtailment and compliance reporting
How Bird Protect™ Pro Works
01
Detect
Enhanced Optical Monitoring — an expanded configuration of fixed optical cameras continuously monitors the surrounding airspace, providing comprehensive directional coverage and supporting bird detection across the monitored environment.
02
Analyse
Real-Time Edge AI — IRIDA's Edge AI software processes the incoming optical data locally, identifying relevant bird activity and analysing detected movement.
03
Assess
Intelligent Collision-Risk Evaluation — the system evaluates detection information against configured risk criteria, considering movement, proximity to the turbine and project-specific environmental requirements.
04
Respond
Automated Protective Actions — when configured risk thresholds are reached, Bird Protect Pro can activate acoustic deterrence, generate operator alerts or communicate with compatible turbine control systems to initiate selective curtailment.
05
Record
Continuous Event Traceability — detection events, supporting imagery, mitigation actions and operational information are recorded through the MRA Cloud Platform for verification, analytics and environmental reporting.
More comprehensive monitoring through an expanded camera configuration
Bird Protect Pro uses an enhanced fixed optical camera arrangement designed to provide comprehensive monitoring of the airspace surrounding each turbine.
Its expanded optical configuration supports monitoring in environments where bird movement patterns, site geography or environmental requirements create additional operational challenges.
The architecture combines continuous visual monitoring with local AI processing, allowing relevant detections to be evaluated and protective actions to be initiated automatically.
Expanded Optical Coverage
Enhanced fixed-camera configuration designed for comprehensive monitoring of the surrounding airspace.
Continuous AI Analysis
Real-time processing of incoming video streams for bird detection and movement analysis.
Integrated Mitigation
Detection, risk assessment and protective turbine responses within one coordinated system.
Technical configuration
Bird Protect Pro operates as a 12 fixed optical camera configuration.
Key Capabilities
Enhanced 360° Airspace Monitoring
Expanded optical camera architecture designed for comprehensive monitoring around the turbine.
Real-Time Edge AI Detection
Continuous local analysis of optical information to identify bird activity and support rapid operational decisions.
Movement and Risk Analysis
Evaluation of detected bird movement and configured collision-risk criteria.
Intelligent Acoustic Deterrence
Configurable acoustic intervention when compatible deterrence equipment is installed.
Automated Turbine Curtailment
Integration with compatible turbine control systems to support selective shutdown-on-demand.
Centralized Monitoring and Reporting
Detection history, mitigation events, system diagnostics and environmental analytics through IRIDA's MRA Cloud Platform.
Typical Operational Performance
- Optical camera configuration
- 12 fixed optical cameras
- Daytime bird detection
- Up to 1,000 m, depending on configuration
- Monitoring coverage
- 360° around the turbine
- Acoustic deterrence
- Approximately 450 m, where equipped
- Curtailment trigger distance
- Approximately 250–350 m
- AI processing
- Local Edge AI
- Turbine integration
- Configurable for compatible OEM systems
- Cloud platform
- IRIDA MRA Cloud
- Remote supervision
- 24/7/365 Monitoring Station
Detection and mitigation performance depends on species, system configuration, visibility, environmental conditions, terrain, turbine characteristics and project-specific requirements. All distances are indicative and must be confirmed for the selected installation.
When to Choose Bird Protect™ Pro
Enhanced protection for more demanding environments
Bird Protect Pro is particularly suited to projects requiring an expanded optical monitoring configuration and reliable automated collision-risk mitigation.
Environmentally Sensitive Wind Farms
Projects with demanding bird-protection obligations and site-specific environmental requirements.
Wind Farms with Significant Bird Activity
Locations where frequent bird movements require continuous monitoring and configured mitigation responses.
Complex Wind Farm Environments
Sites where terrain, turbine arrangement or monitoring requirements justify an enhanced optical configuration.
Large Multi-Turbine Projects
Scalable deployments requiring consistent detection, mitigation, centralized supervision and reporting across multiple turbines.
Bird Protect Pro combines enhanced optical monitoring with IRIDA's established AI detection and mitigation architecture, offering a balanced solution for wind farms requiring capabilities beyond the streamlined Core configuration.
Why Choose Bird Protect Pro?
Enhanced Optical Configuration
Expanded fixed-camera architecture for more comprehensive airspace monitoring.
Integrated Detection and Mitigation
Continuous monitoring, AI analysis, deterrence and turbine curtailment within a coordinated workflow.
Scalable Architecture
Suitable for deployments across individual turbines, complete wind farms and multi-project portfolios.
Unified Technology Ecosystem
Centralized monitoring, diagnostics, analytics and reporting through IRIDA MRA Cloud.
Find the Right Bird Protect Configuration
Explore the Technology Behind Bird Protect Pro
How it works
An advanced configuration of synchronized sensors provides overlapping coverage around the turbine, allowing the system to track bird movement with increased precision.
AI-based algorithms analyse detected flight paths in real time, assessing movement, proximity, and collision risk. When predefined risk conditions are reached, Bird Protect Pro can automatically initiate mitigation actions, including acoustic deterrence and turbine curtailment.
Designed for
- High-risk wind farm sites
- Areas with significant or concentrated bird activity
- Migration corridors and important flight paths
- Sites with small or fast-moving bird species
- Projects with strict environmental and permitting requirements
- Wind farms requiring enhanced monitoring and mitigation performance
Why Bird Protect Pro
Bird Protect Pro provides an additional level of monitoring capability for sites where standard detection is not enough, combining enhanced coverage, precise tracking, automated mitigation, and centralized monitoring in a single integrated solution.
Which configuration fits your site?
Our engineers will assess your turbines, species and regulatory context.
Talk to our team