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title: "Every repair needs a vessel and a weather window"
url: https://mru.space/use-cases/offshore-wind/
description: "Every offshore repair needs a vessel, a crew and a weather window. Mru Field keeps monitoring and control computers working until the next one."
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Energy · Offshore Exploring

# Offshore wind

Every repair needs a vessel, a crew and a weather window.

![Heavy seas break around Block Island Wind Farm turbines](https://mru.space/_astro/pl05-block-island-wind.C1TgHL-t_Z1Ym3hn.jpg)

Heavy seas break around Block Island Wind Farm turbines U.S. Department of Energy · Public domain

$59.7B/ year

Wind turbine operations and maintenance spending by 2030.

MarketsandMarkets

628,000

Wind technicians the industry needs by 2030.

GWO / GWEC

Turbines, substations and met masts carry controllers and sensors far from shore. Every failure that needs a person means a vessel, a crew and the right weather.

Mru Field runs on the processors already in the equipment. When one fails and nobody can come, it continues on the ones left and delivers only results it can check. Status: decision core at TRL 3; first field pilot planned for 2027.

01

## Computers fail one by one

Radiation, heat and age take out processors and memory. Nothing is replaced until the next visit.

02

## No one to ask

When two computers disagree, there is no operator to say which one is right.

03

## Stored data decays

Flash wears out and bits flip. Logs and settings drift unless something checks them.

## Three computers. Then two. Then one, still working.

Most redundant systems stop when they lose their majority. Mru Field steps down instead, and says which mode it is in.

3 alive · vote

A B C

Three computers vote. One bad result is outvoted.

2 alive · compare

A B C

Two compare. A known-answer test finds the faulty one.

1 alive · self-check

A B C

The last one checks its own work and keeps monitoring until the next window, at half speed.

Power

Grid, with backup

Link

Fibre or radio

Visits

Weather-limited

Service life

Decades

## Questions

Does Mru Field need new hardware?

No. It is software for the processors you already deploy. It runs beside your control code and decides which computer to trust as parts fail.

Is this for safety systems?

No. Safety systems keep their own certified protection. Mru Field is for the monitoring and control computers whose failure costs a trip.

How do we start?

Use the form below. We first model your hardware and show what each redundancy design returns over its whole life. Then we plan a pilot on your own equipment.

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