An Internet of Things-based intelligent monitoring and fault detection method for the operation and maintenance of offshore wind turbines
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The rapid expansion of offshore wind farms has introduced significant challenges to operation and maintenance (O&M), particularly under harsh marine environments where reliable electromagnetic information transmission and constrained wireless communication resources directly affect intelligent monitoring performance. Traditional Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems relying on cloud-centric architectures often encounter excessive latency and bandwidth bottlenecks when transmitting high-frequency vibration signals, limiting real-time fault diagnosis. To address these issues, this study proposes an Internet of Things (IoT)-based intelligent monitoring and fault detection method built upon an Edge-Cloud collaborative architecture. A lightweight Adaptive One-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network (A-1D-CNN) is developed for deployment on edge gateway devices, enabling direct extraction of fault characteristics from raw vibration signals without manual feature engineering. Combined with an “ Edge-Training, Cloud-Update” strategy, the proposed framework continuously optimizes diagnostic performance while substantially reducing communication overhead across wireless sensing and electromagnetic transmission infrastructures. Experimental evaluation on a standard bearing fault dataset demonstrates that the proposed method achieves a fault diagnosis accuracy of 99.25% with a compact model size of only 0.45 MB, providing an effective balance between diagnostic precision and deployment efficiency. The results indicate that the proposed framework offers a practical solution for real-time intelligent monitoring in bandwidth-limited offshore environments and provides technical support for reliable electromagnetic-enabled sensing networks and distributed fault diagnosis in next-generation offshore energy systems.
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