100% Data Availability under Super Typhoon DOKSURI

In the early morning of July 28th,2023, one of our floating LiDARs faced the super typhoon "DOKSURI" directly and survived successfully as expected.The FLS, BA-FLS-NX5, which is designed and manufactured by Blue Aspirations, located near the center of the typhoon path, has recorded the entire process the typhoon passing by. “DOKSURI” was generated in the Pacific Ocean and came through Philippines, accumulating energy continuously and reaching the maximum wind force of level 17 ultimately, attacked our FLS and landed in Fujian Province of China finally. According to the National Meteorological Centre of China , the maximum surface wind speed reached 58 m/s, which means it's one of the strongest typhoons experienced in China in recent years. This is another strong Typhoon experience of BA-FLS-NX5 floating LiDAR after Typhoon Talim in Guangdong Province this year. 

We transmitted the data and photos back right after the Typhoon passing by, we are so proud that the BA-FLS-NX5 floating LiDAR performed extremely well under such kind of extreme hazard. The system and data availability both kept 100% and the system voltage stayed stable over 25V. All of this should be attributed to the telecommunication level of redundancy design. One of the wind turbine was damaged in the Typhoon, but the sufficient power supply redundancy design secured the system with no risk.

Here is the detailed statistics of data availability for all heights:

Fig: Data availability (%)

The figure below shows that the system voltage kept higher than 25V.

Fig: System voltage (V)

The following figure is the schematic diagram of the FLS drifting during the typhoon.

Our BA-FLS-NX5 floating LiDAR's survival during this strong typhoon reflects the mature design of its power supply, buoy stability, data communication，and the mooring system. We are confident to embrace various challenges in the future. We will provide our customers high quality, accurate and timely data service.