NDE 4.0 a natural step for acoustic emission


This paper discusses an example of practical implementation of Acoustic Emission continuous monitoring in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the new NDE4.0 paradigm, on renewable electric power wind farms. This project incorporates new sensors, a remote-wireless smart AE instrument, cloud data analytics tailored for data fusion, automatic analysis, alarming, and a data-driven web application for the visualization of asset status in real- or close to realtime. This example clearly illustrates the roll of AE as a natural method for NDE4.0 realization at the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century.
