The submission deadline for the Sensors special issue “Smart Sensors for Damage Detection” has been extended. More information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/smart_sensors_damage_detectionRead More

So far, around 30,000 wind turbines (WT) have been installed in Germany, and the trend is still rising. To protect bats and birds, operators must in many cases implement shutdown algorithms to reduce mortality. Risks are posed by a possible collision with the rotor blades or, especially in the case of bats, due to barotrauma...Read More

The next European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2021) will take place online from 22 to 26 March 2021. All papers will be published in IEEE Xplore. Six papers have been accepted for publication in this conference after peer review.Read More

This photo has been taken from our virtual group meeting at the beginning of December 2020. Thank you all for your great work!!Read More

A joint work between the University of Bologna (Luca De Marchi, Nicola Testoni and Federica Zonzini) and Goethe University Frankfurt (Chris Kexel and me) was accepted for publication in IEEE Access. Abstract: This paper demonstrates the use of guided elastic waves (GEW) for multiple-in and multiple-out (MIMO) data communication in the framework of a structural...Read More

We have had an amazing automatic detection with our camera systems installed at the wind met mast in Flachau (cooperation with Windsfeld GmbH, Austria). Two of our fish eye cameras measured meteors as shown on the videos below. Press release: https://www.pressreader.com/austria/salzburger-nachrichten/20201121/282471416406000 Camera 1 (rotated video)   Camera 1 (overlayed with daylight image, semi transparent)  ...Read More

I was invited to present the latest developments in the MultiRadar project and PRIA-WIND project at the conference “Smart technologies for wildlife conservation and wind energy“ organized by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation. More than 230 participants have joined the presentation. Link: https://www.natur-und-erneuerbare.de/aktuelles/details/naturvertraegliche-windenergienutzung-durch-smarte-technologien-im-artenschutz/Read More

Researchers met at Hochschule Bochum for the DFG scientific network meeting “Towards a holistic quality assessment for guided wave-based SHM”. More information on the project can be found here: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/424954879?language=enRead More

Millimeter wave radar technology was installed on a wind measuring mast in the alpine region. This sensor installation is a partnership with Windsfeld GmbH (https://www.windsfeld.at/index.html and https://www.windsfeld.at/imageandfilms.html) More information: https://salzburg.orf.at/stories/3066964/   Photos: Moritz MälzerRead More

The Journal of Sound and Vibration (impact factor of 3.429 in 2019) publishes our article on ultrasonic data transmission across metal structures affected by environmental conditions.   Abstract: Variable environmental conditions present a major hurdle for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems which involve the signal processing of Ultrasonic Guided Waves (UGW). Two important cases of...Read More