2023 · Product design · UX/UI · Hardware
e-Preve
e-Preve is a project for autonomous preventive and predictive maintenance of wind turbines.
e-Preve combines hardware and software to automate technical inspections in wind farms. It's made of the drone (e-Preve N1) — a hexacopter purpose-built to fly analysis missions for 28 minutes while handling strong wind gusts — and its own dock station (e-Preve N1 Box), anchored to the turbine's nacelle, from where every inspection starts and ends. The capsule protects the drone from the weather between inspections, recharges it, and releases it to the programmed waypoints when it's time to fly.
Through the e-Preve AirData software, companies can design the drone's analysis route inside the wind farm. The platform also lets operators trigger an inspection remotely, with no need to bring technicians on site — avoiding risk and saving time.
On the analysis side, the dashboards consolidate the status of each turbine, the progress of the active flight, the drone's monitored components, the cracks detected with their risk level and reliability, and the satellite route with the programmed waypoints — all aimed at cutting maintenance costs, minimising downtime and improving inspection safety by removing complex manual checks.
The dashboard answers «what's happening right now?». The Turbine view answers a different — and usually more urgent — question: «which machine do I service first?».
Turbine
A table that decides which turbine gets serviced today and which one can wait until Monday.
The Turbine screen is the wind-farm's executive summary. Every turbine in the list expands into its three blades with analysis time, duration, temperature, crack presence, type (mild/severe) and whether human review is required. Temperatures are encoded with coloured bars — green, yellow, red — so the technician spots the day's urgencies at a glance. Above the table, three buttons: Download, Visualisation and export — because when the inspection ends, the report has to leave the platform.
- Role
- Product design · UX/UI · Hardware
- Year
- 2023
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- Product Design