DeTect specializes in delivery, integration and support of advanced, proven Bird Monitoring and Mitigation systems (BMMS) for wind energy project developers, owners, operators and environmental consultants for bird and bat survey, mortality risk assessment, operational monitoring, and real-time risk mitigation with over 800 systems delivered worldwide. DeTect’s MERLIN™ BMMS integrates the advanced, fully automatic MERLIN Avian Radar System (ARS) with a wind farm’s SCADA network to create a real-time risk mitigation system for bird or bat mortality. MERLIN BMMS consists of additional software, hardware, and/or other data sensors that monitor the wind farm, assess real-time mortality risk using mitigation rule sets, and alert for or automatically initiate risk mitigation measures when pre-defined risk thresholds are detected by the system. The MERLIN BMMS ultimately reduces both turbine downtime and bird or bat mortality risk by implementing mitigation measures in real time, and only during time periods of high mortality risk. Configurations are available for mitigating mortality risk for migrating songbirds, raptors, and bats.
DeTect’s latest development the MERLIN 7360s TRUE3D BDR Radar is a stabilized Bird DeTect radar for offshore survey and monitoring. Engineered for dependable 24-7 operation on an offshore buoy or vessel, it has high reliability & low maintenance with hardware and operating software developed specifically for bird detection, tracking and species identification.
In response to the Dark Sky initiative and customer demand to reduce light pollution DeTect also developed the HARRIER™ Aircraft Detection Lighting Systems (ADLS) for automatic obstruction lighting activation for aviation obstructions such as wind farm turbines, high voltage transmission lines and communication towers. The HARRIER ADLS provides reliable, continuous 360-degree radar surveillance of the airspace around wind farms, communications towers, power lines and installations that require aircraft obstruction lighting from the ground level to above aircraft flight altitudes, automatically issuing signals to activate obstruction lighting when aircraft are detected at a defined outer perimeter.
