First MOTUS Station in German Offshore Windfarm

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Dear Motus peers,

In cooperation with RWE, we proudly announce the installation of the first MOTUS station in a German offshore wind farm, at “Amrumbank West”.

see here for a picture of the station: Migration ecology // University of Oldenburg

and here a link to the dashboard: Explore Data

RWE even posted on Linkedin about it: What can we learn when offshore technology meets wildlife research?    At our Amrumbank West offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, we have taken a step toward finding out. Together with the… | Sven Utermöhlen

We received tremendous support from the research group “Wind Energy Systems” at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.

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Nice! What software are you running?

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We are running with this software release: 2018 10 12_sgpi_update.tar.bz2, which should be Sensorgnome V1 (most of our ~70 station run on it). The reason for it this “old” version is, that we have programmed it together wth a cellular router, that we can get remote access to the Rasberry from our office. However, I am not the expert in our group in terms of software!