September is a wrap, and Windworks has bagged two awards!🎉 ⚡ Innovation Booster Energy Lab awarded us CHF 20'000.- to accelerate our road-to-market. 💡 Best Innovation Award given by the jury of the Smart Energy Event on Campus Energypolis, organized by Fondation The Ark and CleantechAlps. Thank you all for supporting our venture! 🙌
Windworks
Stromerzeugung aus Windkraft
Saint-Sulpice, Vaud 172 Follower:innen
We empower energy-intensive industries to achieve energy autonomy with our smart wind turbines.
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The pitch Windworks created the world’s first real-time blade control system for wind turbine blades, empowering accessible and affordable clean energy. This technology uses on-board sensors and our in-house software to actively adjust the orientation of turbine blades in real-time, improving turbine performance, lifetime and electricity costs. The pain Over 95% of wind power comes from large, utility-scale turbines. At that scale, wind turbines offer the lowest cost of electricity of energy system. At smaller commercial and industrial scales, there are no economically viable wind turbines. Several stakeholders suffer from the lack of on-site clean power production. Currently, the only sustainable on-site power option is photovoltaics, which produce 67% less electricity in winter compared to summer. Energy-intensive industries, communities, and farmers must rely on carbon-intensive and expensive grid power or fossil-based generators to meet their power needs. They face increasingly volatile and high energy costs, and regulations regarding their carbon emissions. Our unique solution We built the first real-time blade control system for wind turbine blades that respond to local wind conditions using on-board sensors and a data-driven algorithm. Smart vertical-axis wind turbines are quiet, fauna friendly and require only a third of the space compared to traditional turbines. They provide socially attractive wind power and thrive in a wide spectrum of wind conditions, enabling on-site power production. Our laboratory proof-of-concept achieved industry-leading efficiency, with power coefficients surpassing the 0.5 mark, and demonstrated resilience to strong wind conditions.
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https://www.windworks.ai/
Externer Link zu Windworks
- Branche
- Stromerzeugung aus Windkraft
- Größe
- 2–10 Beschäftigte
- Hauptsitz
- Saint-Sulpice, Vaud
- Art
- Kapitalgesellschaft (AG, GmbH, UG etc.)
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Primär
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Route Cantonale
Saint-Sulpice, Vaud 1015, CH
Beschäftigte von Windworks
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Our team had a great day at the 2024 Smart Energy Event hosted by THE ARK, CleantechAlps and FMV 😎 We’re honoured to have brought home the Best Innovation Award! 🏆 Connecting with key players in the Swiss energy ecosystem and industrial stakeholders was incredibly insightful. Looking forward to the 2025 edition – see you next year!
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Accelerating soft robot manipulators, automated gentle organoid sorting, and smart wind energy: Helix Robotics, Visienco, and Windworks advance to next stage of Venture Kick, receiving CHF 40,000 each. Congratulations to the teams of innovators Francesco Stella, Max Polzin, Kai Junge, Josie Hughes, Cosimo Della Santina, Lucie Jandet, Jonas Goldowsky, Daniel Fernex and Sébastien Le Fouest! https://lnkd.in/eE-N_a7k Meet the winners: Helix Robotics: building the first commercial soft robot manipulator https://lnkd.in/evMB3_aA Visienco: Bringing automated, gentle organoid sorting to your lab https://lnkd.in/epvB3ZSF Windworks: smart wind energy as a service to help farmers, SMEs, and local authorities achieve energetic independence. https://lnkd.in/ef-ckPnA #VentureKick #SwissStartups
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📣 we're rebranding! 🙏 we heard your prayers, PitchMe was a confusing name. 🍃 we're evolving into Windworks. Our new name better aligns with our mission: decarbonizing energy-intensive industries with smart wind turbines that deliver clean and affordable on-site power production. 🚀 stay tuned for our new website, launching mid-September! 🙌 huge shoutout to Coteries SA for designing our new visual identity and building our upcoming website. Welcome to the future of energy autonomy with Windworks! #Rebrand #WindEnergy #Sustainability #EnergyAutonomy
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PitchMe secures the first #kick 👊 💸 Venture Kick supports high-potential #spinoff projects from Swiss universities with early-stage funding. 🙏 Our team is deeply grateful to the VK Foundation for providing financial support, resources, and mentorship. 🤩 We can't wait to take full advantage of this kick to transform our idea into a sustainable business! PS: we hear you, our project name can be confusing. As we develop our brand, we will update our name to reflect our new offering: commercial-scale smart wind turbines for decentralized power production. Please reach out if you have any suggestions, and stay tuned for the big announcement 🎙
Boosting new inventions in B2B communication, medtech, clean energy, and lab research: Hoshī, INCAPTEK, PitchMe, Scanvio Medical, and Visienco enter Venture Kick, receiving CHF 10'000 each. Ayoub Chouak, Jiir Awdir, Olga Fontanellaz, Gleb Sukhorukov, Yury Moshkin, Daniel Fernex, Sébastien Le Fouest, Fabian Laumer, Stefan Tuchschmid, Lucie Jandet and Jonas Goldowsky! https://lnkd.in/eXdchdxV Hoshī: AI-powered chat interface for B2B wholesalers https://lnkd.in/eTnmWY35 INCAPTEK: Next-generation smart drug-eluting coatings for medical devices https://lnkd.in/eQ2DhnKn PitchMe: smart wind energy as a service to help farmers, SMEs, and local authorities achieve energetic independence https://lnkd.in/e7VJp5it Scanvio Medical: Democratize expert ultrasound https://lnkd.in/eZEnebPz Visienco: Bringing automated, gentle organoid sorting to your lab https://lnkd.in/eW-znkuS #SwissStartups #VentureKick
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Last week, our CEO Sébastien Le Fouest was interviewed on RTS - Radio Télévision Suisse science radio show CQFD. They discussed the huge potential of active blade pitching to enhance the performance and lifetime of vertical-axis wind turbines. ▶ Catch the replay here: https://lnkd.in/eT9fuugf #energyefficiency #cleantech #windpower #flowcontrol #innovation
Eoliennes, intelligences artificielles et histoire culinaire
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#Innovation | 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗩𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹-𝗔𝘅𝗶𝘀 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝘂𝗿𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 | Dr. Sébastien Le Fouest and Prof. Dr. Karen Mulleners at EPFL's UNFOLD lab have made significant strides in vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT) technology. Their research showcases a method to not only combat but use the dynamic stall phenomenon to improve wind turbine efficiency and robustness. Through machine learning and optimal blade pitch control, the team can redirect blade pitch to produce smaller, manageable vortices and push them away, thereby using dynamic stall as a means to produce power. This cutting-edge technique has significant implications for the future of wind energy, a critical component to reaching the UN's 2050 carbon emissions goals. 👉 Learn more >> https://lnkd.in/gUUDHeMA 👉 Original publication >> https://lnkd.in/gUKvg8hm 🇨🇭 Follow #ScienceSwitzerland for the latest news and emerging trends on Swiss science, technology, education, and innovation >> www.swissinnovation.org Follow us >> Science-Switzerland #Science | #Education | #Research | #Innovation
Machine learning enables viability of vertical-axis wind turbines
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Thanks for the cool feature EPFL 🤩
EPFL researchers have used a genetic learning algorithm to identify optimal pitch profiles for the blades of vertical-axis wind turbines, which despite their high energy potential, have until now been vulnerable to strong gusts of wind. ------- Des scientifiques de l’EPFL ont utilisé un algorithme d’apprentissage génétique pour identifier les meilleurs profils d’inclinaison des pales d’éoliennes à axe vertical. Ces dernières, malgré leur fort potentiel énergétique, sont encore vulnérables aux fortes rafales de vent. Pour lire l'article en français : https://go.epfl.ch/16b88f
Machine learning enables viability of vertical-axis wind turbines
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If you imagine a #wind turbine, you likely picture the horizontal windmill design. But a #machinelearning-driven air flow control method developed at EPFL aims to help make vertical-axis turbine technology commercially available. Sébastien Le Fouest Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF #mechanicalengineering #windenergy https://lnkd.in/etR5g-Au
Machine learning enables viability of vertical-axis wind turbines
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