ZX Lidars
Decades of research into laser applications has been undertaken by many of our team between 1980 and 2000, led by Dr. Michael Harris, our Director of Science. Our product family – ZX 300, ZX 300M and ZX TM – allows for accurate, accepted and affordable wind measurements onshore, offshore, and from existing structures such as wind turbines. Following initial development by the team, Zephir Ltd. was founded in 2007 and our sole shareholder is the UK-based company Fred. Olsen Ltd, founded in 1963 with global outreach. Fred. Olsen-related companies operate across a diverse set of industries, but a backbone of renewable energy industry organisations including consultants, wind farm development, installation vessels and operation & maintenance teams has helped inform and advise our own Lidar organisation.
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Wind Energy
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
- Employees:
- 11-100
This company also provides solutions for other industrial applications.
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About Us
We are ZX Lidars.
Accurate, Accepted, Affordable Lidars.
Measure the wind higher, further and faster than traditional met masts. ZX Lidars are powerful tools in any wind measurement toolbox: in wind farm Development, Site Construction through to Site and Project Operations, and in other Weather Monitoring activities.
Operate in all climates, reduce wind measurement uncertainty and increase project and design value. Manage your wind resource risk and optimise your assets by employing the original and single most validated wind industry Lidar available.
Our measurement services team – ZX Measurement Services – provides Wind Data as a Service for a full turnkey Lidar, Sodar, Met Mast and ancillaries approach to project data.
And, in case of any confusion – we were formerly ZephIR Lidar!! Same team, just with some new great Lidars!
How it all began
This, combined with the emergence of the commercial telecomms industry resulted in the opportunity for a low-cost Lidar product to remotely sense wind characteristics via measurement of the Doppler shift of light emitted by the Lidar and scattered back from particles in the atmosphere such as dust, moisture and pollen.
Rapid growth in the wind industry combined with our innovative Continuous Wave Lidar technology triggered a chain of products and partnerships as outlined in this Product Guide.Our vision statement from the outset has been simply: a wind Lidar on every commercial wind project and integrated into every large wind turbine – a Big Hairy Audacious Goal that we all believe in, from the first employee of Zephir Ltd., Ian Locker – our Managing Director – through to each and every member of the ZX Lidars Family.
After our first successful decade we started out on a new adventure – to re-invest Zephir Ltd.’s (Z) 10+ years (X) of experience to completely re-imagine our Lidar system and make a Lidar ‘platform’. A platform that can be tailored to so very many applications and customer needs. All based on the core, proven and accepted Lidar technology that has featured since Day 1.
And so ZX Lidars was born and today represents what we do, and how we do it.
History
Our commitment to our vision is demonstrated through more than a decade of trail-blazing and Blue Ocean market creation:.
The first wind Lidar to meet all conditions for Classification to IEC 61400-12-1: 2017.
2017The first wind Lidar to be deployed across a whole wind farm on a Lidar-per-turbine basis.
2016The first wind Lidar to be integrated into a wind turbine OEM’s SCADA system.
2014The first wind Lidar to be subjected to more than 170 performance verifications against an IEC compliant test site.
2013The first wind lidar to provide true dual mode functionality in one platform (ZephIR DM).
2012The first wind lidar to be used with very short masts and secure project financing.
2011The first wind lidar to be proven in a wind tunnel.
2010The first wind lidar to re-finance and re-power a wind farm.
2009The first wind lidar to be deployed offshore on a floating platform (SeaZephIR).
2008The first wind lidar to be signed off against an industry-accepted validation process.
2007The first wind lidar to take measurements from a turbine spinner.
2005The first wind lidar to be deployed offshore – both on fixed platform (2005) and floating platform (2009).
2004The first and original commercially available lidar for the wind industry. The first wind lidar to investigate the behaviour of turbine wakes.
2003The first wind lidar to make upwind measurements from a turbine nacelle.