What Does Boulder Do?
Boulder Imaging’s proprietary Vision Inspector® platform leverages ultra-high speed machine vision algorithms, artificial intelligence, and sensor fusion to solve complex visual inspection challenges across a wide range of industries, including wind energy, architectural products, security paper, and banknotes. Boulder Imaging’s flagship IdentiFlight® system combines long-range optics with deterministic AI to detect and identify protected bird species at wind farms from distances of up to 1.5 km. IdentiFlight’s highly accurate avian identification technology enables informed turbine curtailment that has been independently validated to reduce bird fatalities by more than 95%, while curtailment-related energy losses are held to less than 1%. With hundreds of IdentiFlight stations deployed at wind farms across six continents, Boulder Imaging is a global leader in AI-powered avian detection and protection for wind energy.
Customer Value Proposition
Boulder’s machine vision solutions provide several benefits for the utility-scale wind power industry including enabling customers to meet permitting and regulatory requirements for avian protection, minimizing avian impacts from wind farm operations with high accuracy, all while minimizing production losses from unnecessary turbine curtailments. In manufacturing environments Boulder’s Architect products are a key enabler of high speed and accuracy quality control, minimizing product quality issues, unnecessary product waste, and warranty costs.
Climate Impact
Boulder’s IdentiFlight solution is a globally deployed avian protection solution that is a key enabler of successful wind project permitting, both in obtaining final permits and in reducing permitting delays. Once implemented, IdentiFlight allows wind farms to precisely target specific turbines for selective curtailment to allow protected birds to pass unharmed while minimizing clean energy production losses. The subsequent reduction in avian deaths also ensures greater biodiversity, particularly regarding threatened and endangered raptor species such as Golden and Bald eagles, kites, hawks, and condors.
