Windar Photonics has won a public tender for a multi-beam Lidar system from the Indian National Institute of Wind Energy, a research centre. The Lidar systems will be installed during the first quarter of 2017 on a wind turbine produced by an Indian original equipment manufacturer in order to optimise the turbine.
The institute works under the under the Indian government's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, and conducts research on wind turbine technology, resource assessment, and verifies wind turbine technology according to standards set by the International Electrotechnical Commission, a non-governmental body based in Geneva.