Wind lidar monitoring made easy

Our web app gives you easy access to your wind lidar data, saving you time and simplifying your measurement campaigns.

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Wind lidar monitoring with Moli

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Wind lidar monitoring with Moli

Data time series
Check the data at all heights with our easy-to-use data browser
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Statistics
Get quick estimates of key statistics like wind speed
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Data availability
Find out how much data you've got at each height throughout your campaign
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Logbook
Get system updates and warnings, and leave notes and photos for your team and customers
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File browser
Download data for specific periods, or all at once
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Data shown are raw data obtained from the AWAKEN Site A1 – NREL Profiling Lidar (Windcube v2.1) / Raw Data data set, obtained from  https://a2e.energy.gov/ds/awaken/sa1.lidar.z04.00 on 17 April 2024. Data are public domain (license).

We are grateful to the AWAKEN project for making this data publicly available. For more information about AWAKEN, see https://a2e.energy.gov/project/awaken.

The information shown here is preliminary and subject to revision without notice.

enerlace is not associated with NREL or AWAKEN and the use of this data is not intended to imply an endorsement, recommendation, or favouring of enerlace or its products by NREL or Battelle Memorial Institute, the United States Government or any agency thereof.

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Wind lidar monitoring with Moli

Support for all vertical profiling wind lidar

Moli works with all commercially-available vertically-profiling wind lidar, bringing them all together on one page.

Automatic quality control and data processing

Moli applies repeatable, rules-based quality control and data processing following the lidar manufacturers’ guidelines.

Customizable alerts and warnings

Get automatic email notifications if data transfer fails or data availability is below critical values.

Seamless teamwork

Multiple users can monitor and contribute simultaneously. Invite your colleagues and customers to your campaigns.

One-click reports

Generate monthly reports in PDF and DOCX formats. Share insights with your colleagues and customers.

Collaborative logbook

Add confidence to your data by documenting what’s going on in your campaign.

Keeping on top of wind lidar campaigns takes time

Wind lidar are great, but you need to click through 100s of files and spend time each day checking the data to get the best quality data for your wind farm. Then you need to talk to colleagues, prepare reports, and make sure your customers are happy. That’s a lot of work!

We’ve got the solution to make your life easier. Scroll down to find out more.

Effortless daily data monitoring

Working with wind lidar means managing lots of data files and checking 144 wind profiles every day. 

Our tool simplifies all of that.

Effortless daily data monitoring

Working with wind lidar means managing lots of data files and checking 144 wind profiles every day. Our tool simplifies all of that.

Easy data collection

Set up your lidar to email us your data, or send it by FTP. Drag and drop missing data later in the app.

Automatic quality control

We’ll process the lidar data according to industry best practice and check it for you. 

Customisable alerts

Sleep better knowing that the app will email you if data are missing or data availability drops.

Keep everyone up to date

Your colleagues went to site last week, your boss wants to know what’s happening, and you owe your customer a monthly report.

We’ve set up easy ways to collaborate with your colleagues and automate reporting.

Streamlined collaboration

A successful measurement campaign is always a team effort. We help you work together so everyone knows whats going on.

Streamlined collaboration

A successful measurement campaign is always a team effort. We help you work together so everyone knows whats going on.

Collaborative logbook

Add confidence to your data by documenting what’s going on in your campaign.

One-click
reports

The app generates reports for you every week or month. Share insights with your colleagues and customers.

Stay on the same page

Use the app as single point of truth for your team. Then everyone knows what’s going on.

New to wind lidar?

Deploying your first lidar can be a real challenge.

You’ve got to set up data pipelines, do quality control, and prepare reports for stakeholders. That’s a lot of work, all at once.

Fortunately, our web app does all of that for you automatically.

Click the button below to schedule a demo and we’ll show you how you can save an hour a day.

Get started in 3 minutes

We’ve developed a web app so getting started is really easy. You just need to log in, and then you’re good to go.

Get started in 5 minutes or less

We’ve developed a web app so getting started is really easy. You just need to log in, and then you’re good to go.

No installation required

The web-app runs through any browser. Bonus feature: updates are automatically installed and you always have the newest features.

Data storage included

Your data is saved in our cloud. You have the option to download your files at any time.

Easy
onboarding

We’ll guide you through the first steps in the app and help you set up the monitoring of your first lidar campaign.

Try it out now

Find out what Moli can do for you in our free trial:

Frequently Asked Questions

We’ve put the answers to common questions below.

Please contact us for any other questions.

Wind lidar is a way to measure wind speed and direction using a laser. It can be used to probe the wind at distances up to several kilometres away from a base station. Wind lidar can be configured to measure wind speed and direction at multiple heights; this is known as a vertical wind profiler.

Wind lidar makes it easy to measure wind speed and direction from near the ground to well above the upper tip of a modern wind turbine.

It is therefore frequently used for wind resource assessment campaigns in the planning phase of wind farms.

enerlace is a startup from the University of Stuttgart in Germany. The team is a combination of lidar geeks and software developers. We’ve been working in wind lidar since 2007 and developing software since 2009.

See https://www.enerlace.de/en/about/ for more information about us.

The app helps wind energy professionals be more effective. It:

  • saves time by automating repetitive tasks
  • increases confidence by checking availability
  • supports collaboration by bringing teams together

Moli automatically processes lidar data that it receives either via upload, email or sftp from your lidar. It then offers the following features:

  • Time series plots of wind speed and direction
  • Wind roses and other statistics at all measurement heights
  • Summaries of data availability and other metrics
  • Alerts that notify you if the availability is low or the data transfer isn’t working
  • A logbook, where you can keep a diary about your work on the site or with the wind lidar
  • An automatically-generated summary report
  • A file browser for easy download of your data
  • Options for data upload through the browser, by email to a unique address, and by secure FTP.

The wind lidar usually measure the wind continuously and then calculate a 10-minute average wind speed and direction. Those data are uploaded by the wind lidar to our systems usually once every day. We update the data as soon as we have it.

It takes us a few seconds to process data when we receive it.

Moli requires a browser and an internet connection. We’ve tested it on all the major browsers (Edge, Chrome, Safari, Firefox) and all the major operating systems (Windows, macOS, and Linux) and it works perfectly across all combinations.

Yes. We take your data security very seriously and have implemented (at least) industry standard security measures to protect it. Please check out our data protection policy to find out more.

Yes. You can choose the date period you are looking at, and the height that you choose as a reference. You can also zoom and pan most of the charts.

We take all of the data “as is” from the wind lidar. We apply the same quality control and filtering as the lidar. That means that the data provided through the app, is as accurate as the data provided by the lidar.

Yes. You can download the files that you sent us, and you can download a summary report as well.

Not yet. We’re looking into making a mobile version for some parts of the app, but that will come later.

You’ll be in direct contact with one of the enerlace team for your onboarding and support, so you can contact them directly by mail, phone, or chat.

You can also email us at support@enerlace.de, or raise a support ticket at our self-service portal. There are links to all of these options in the app.

We bill for each measurement campaign that you are monitoring through Moli. Each campaign costs about the equivalent of 90 minutes of a wind expert’s time in western Europe or North America, per month.

To get a quote please contact us.

Yes. We have an extensive API which you can use to integrate the app with other systems. We provide access on a case-by-case basis. Please contact  us to find out more.

Yes. We include a 1-hour onboarding session when you start your free trial, and we’ll happily support you further if you need it.

Data Protection Policy

Find out how we keep your data safe

Our data protection policy describes the policies and procedures we’ve implemented at enerlace to keep your data safe.

Click on the link to find out about:

… and more. For more information or to provide feedback, please contact us.

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