How to measure wind speed and direction in cold areas?

Wind speed sensor and  wind direction sensor are both of the important equipments for meteorological environment monitoring. Traditional wind speed and wind direction sensors in low-temperature regions and cold winter seasons, there are cases that the rotating bearings are frozen or the low temperature interferes with the circuits, etc., which seriously affects the normal collection of wind speed and wind direction data.

Wind Speed and Direction Sensor in the cold area

Real-time monitoring of wind speed and direction is of great significance, and has an important early warning role in the prevention of meteorological disasters and outdoor safety operations. During the severe cold and freezing period, in order to ensure the normal monitoring of meteorological wind speed and direction, the observers often have to climb up to the high equipment to remove the ice before resuming the normal work, which is extremely dangerous, and there is a second freezing occurring after the removal of ice, which is a very difficult problem.

How to monitor wind speed and direction in cold temperatures

Aiming at the wind speed and wind direction monitoring problems under the conditions of high altitude, low temperature area and severe cold season, FELSTER develops and produces heated wind speed and wind direction sensors, which can automatically recognize the temperature change and start and stop the heating function under the environment of low temperature and freezing, so as to realize the effect of anti-cold and de-icing, and to ensure that the product's mechanical structure, movable bearings, and circuits are not affected by the low-temperature and freezing.

Heated wind speed and direction sensors

Firstrate mechanical heated wind speed and direction sensor adopts non-contact magnetic sensing measurement principle, the overall use of high-precision alloy materials, polyester coating, wind resistance and corrosion resistance; the product complies with CE, EMC standards, multi-level lightning protection and anti-surge design, the design is compact and integrated with automatic heating device.

Heated wind speed and direction sensors for the wind power industry

Wind power industry heated wind speed and direction sensors are mainly used in wind power and photovoltaic power station wind speed and direction monitoring. This series of products are made of high-strength aluminum alloy for monitoring wind speed and direction in extreme environments, the rotating blades do not deform at high speeds, and the overall protection level reaches IP66, which is resistant to sand, dust, and seawater corrosion, and the products have passed the certification of the ISO9001/2000 management system, and the international certificates of UL, CSA, and CE.

Heated Wind Speed and Direction Sensor

Firstrate ultrasonic wind speed and wind direction sensor adopts high quality stainless steel one-piece design, advanced ultrasonic technology measurement, no movable bearings, no startup wind speed limitation, no angle limitation, multiple ultrasonic probes send and receive ultrasonic signals in real time in the measurement space, monitoring data is more accurate and efficient.

Firstrate mechanical heated wind speed and wind direction sensor is compact in size, with strong anti-corrosion and weather resistance, the circuit module PCB is made of military grade A material, with low power consumption, strong anti-electromagnetic interference ability, good data output linearity and stable signal transmission.

Heated Wind Speed and Direction Sensor Applications

Heated wind speed and direction sensors are mainly developed for the application of low temperature and cold harsh environment, usually used in the northern cold areas, high altitude mountain plateau, aerial work platform and other scenes.

The main application areas are meteorological environment monitoring, agricultural environment monitoring, wind power, photovoltaic power generation, port terminals, power plants, aerial lifting equipment, aerial ropeways and other fields, can effectively solve the environmental factors on the sensor monitoring the impact of the monitoring, for the monitoring party to provide stable and accurate wind speed and wind direction monitoring data.