Phoenix Contact has been awarded the 2012 Hermes Award for a system that measures lightning surges in lightning conductors and conveys operational status evaluations via the Internet to the remote control center.

The system is based on the electrical-optical Faraday effect and measures the full course of the lightning surge as well as the impact on each of the individual rotor blades.

Read the article on Drives & Control and the Hanover Messe websites