Met Mast (PMM)
The Met Mast is a core asset type in the Bazefield platform representing a single permanent met tower at a power plant. It serves as the foundational asset for collecting, organizing, analyzing, and visualizing detailed meteorological data. Each met mast asset is uniquely identified and associated with a parent site (e.g a “wind farm”), and may serve as the reference PMM for one or many turbines on the farm.
Functional Description
A Met Mast is a collection of measurement equipment mounted on a common tower. Met Masts measure the ambient conditions, including wind speed and direction. The met mast provides information about the resource layer for wind power plants, which governs turbine power production (see Domain Categories for a broader description of the resource layer and related assets across different power plants). There may be several met towers at a site, as well as sensors at varying heights on a single met tower, to measure different weather conditions across a farm.
Core Data Model
While the data model of individual met towers may vary by vendor, Bazefield offers a pre-installed CORE data model to account for the most common points, events, and attributes relevant to all makes and models of met masts. Model by model variations are then handled typically through smart Model Inheritance. All vendor specific points, calculation, and events are packaged in separate asset model templates, and are not described here.
Core Attributes
Attributes are fixed key, value pairs used to represent non-time series data associated with each asset (read more about Attributes). While attribute values can differ from asset to asset, critical shared (e.g. CORE) attributes defining a met tower asset type, pre-installed in Bazefield are described below. These are often pre-requisite data required for the Bazefield applications to function fully.
Required for basic Bazefield Core functionality
Optional attributes for common additional modelling
Depending on your version of Bazefield, there may be additional advanced attributes not listed here to support data integrations or migrations with other systems.
Name | Key | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
Latitude | latitude | GPS coordinates for the met tower using WGS 84 system in decimals | |
Longitude | longitude | GPS coordinates for the met tower using WGS 84 system in decimals | |
Time Zone | timeZone | Local time zone where the met tower is located | |
Serial Number | serialNumber | Serial Number of the met tower | |
Operative Date | operativeDate | Date of initial met tower operation. |
Certified Product Templates
This section lists the common, shared point, event, and other data templates applicable to a met mast asset type pre-installed by the Bazefield product team.
Required for Bazefield Core Dashboard functionality
Optional templates for common additional data streams/sources
Template Type | Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
Point Template | Core Real-Time Data-PMM | Real-time meteorological data from met tower sensors. |
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