Power production from floating wind turbines will require the combination of strengths from the development and operation of the wind turbines themselves, the floating elements, the mooring systems, the subsea systems, the control systems and the network between all the turbines in the wind farm. At the same time, they are highly dependent on cost-effective processes across different disciplines to optimize power production as cost-effectively as possible.

The starting point for the solution has been the information standard IEC/ISO 81346 part 10, Power Systems, and to use this Reference Designation System (RDS) so that the implementation ensures efficient data communication for both the operator and all stakeholders in the value chain.

Based on this data model, we have connected live data stream from the Highwind Demo platform, Zepyros, located outside Karmøy on the west coast of Norway. A standardized data model together with live datastreams has made it possible to create a complete Digital Twin for a floating wind turbine.

The solution was first developed in Microsoft Fabric with MS Cosmos graph database. After this, it has been further developed in DNV's Veracity platform.

The technology has been based on MS Fabric, Databricks, .Net, C#, Cosmos db, Python and Apache Gremlin