smartmolen.com: IoT to keep heritage windmills turning
summary
smartmolen.com monitors heritage windmills with discreet cap-mounted sensors and a dashboard that shows orientation, sail revolutions and risk scenarios in real time. It uses a tuned magnetometer and simple magnetic reed counters, transmits over LoRaWAN / The Things Network, and runs on Azure Functions with a React frontend. Deployments report ~7 million records collected so far and about 100–200k datapoints per mill per year, multi-kilometre gateway range, multi-year battery life, bidirectional fantail sensing and actionable alerts to prevent tailwinding.
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- 0:00SmartMolen project intro
- 1:23Problem and tailwind risks
- 3:12Sensor expansion for sails and tail
- 4:35Dutch windmill research
- 5:35LoRaWAN for remote mills
- 6:39Data visualization tools
- 7:43Sensor performance and battery
- 9:10Tech stack and infrastructure
- 9:52Smart millwrighting and community
- 11:56Future plans & Q&A
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