Industries & Applications
Gill ultrasonic wind sensors and weather stations are deployed across diverse industries and applications. The ability to provide accurate, highly reliable data, with little or no maintenance, has driven their use in the most hazardous and extreme environments to ensure safety, deliver efficiencies and to keep watch on the critical parameters of many industries. If you have a wind or weather measurement need, please get in touch.
- Compact weather stations on buoys for coastal monitoring
- Gill R3 chosen for real-time motion correction
- Inside hurricane Fiona with WindMaster
- On-board weather data for MAS autonomous ship
- Precise and robust wind and weather sensors for sustainable maritime solutions
- Ship / oil platform DPS
- Ship navigation systems
- Smartsound AutoNaut, scientific research vessel, equipped with sophisticated array of sensors
- Wind sensors for marine dynamic positioning systems
- Cost benefit of ultrasonic anemometers vs mechanical wind sensors in solar farms
- Enhancing wind turbine performance with reliable sensor technology
- Power line wind measurement
- Solar energy
- Solar monitoring solutions for performance monitoring and asset protection
- Weather monitoring data for solar tracking farms
- Wind turbine control
- Wind energy sensors for asset effectiveness
- Advancing fire weather research: testing ultrasonic wind sensors in the field
- Compact weather stations support black carbon pollution monitoring
- Monitoring wind at the world’s tallest building
- Reliable data is the backbone of smart cities
- Wind speed & direction measurement on bridges for operational and structural safety
- Airport wind measurement
- Air flow measurement in tunnels
- Building HVAC systems
- Chemical plant environmental monitoring
- Determining safe wind speed operating conditions on cranes
- Heat stress monitoring on construction sites
- Monitoring wind on the tallest buildings
- Transport safety: weather stations for road and rail environments
- Wind speed measurement on bridges
- Advancing fire weather research: testing ultrasonic wind sensors in the field
- Air quality monitoring & analysis
- Compact weather stations support accurate black carbon pollution monitoring
- Environmental & pollution control
- First response environment analysis
- Local authority air quality monitoring
- Ultrasonic anemometers for accurate measurement under extreme dust and blown sand conditions
Industries & Applications
Measurement for the places
other sensors can't survive.
Gill ultrasonic wind sensors and weather stations work in the world's most demanding environments, from offshore platforms and wind farms to airport runways, defence ranges, and the research vessels tracking climate change. Find your industry below.
Marine
Renewable
Defence
Transport
Cities
Industrial
Emergency
Research
Agriculture
40+
Years of ultrasonic
Zero
Moving parts
King's
Award for enterprise
UK
Designed & built
Where our sensors work
Built for conditions other sensors can't survive.
Ultrasonic measurement has no moving parts, no bearings to wear, no cups to ice over. That's why Gill sensors run for 15 to 20 years. Many run even longer.
Application deep-dives
Specifying sensors for a specific deployment?
Three technical guides for the applications engineers ask us about most. Each one covers the full product range, integration notes, FAQs, and the trade-offs that matter when you're selecting kit.
USV & Autonomous Marine
Wind, weather and level sensing for unmanned surface vehicles. No crew on board means every sensor has to earn its place.
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UAV & Drone Sensors
Launch site wind, weather stations for BVLOS operations, and ballistic meteorology for fixed and rotary-wing platforms.
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Automatic Weather Stations
Full AWS deployments from compact integrated units to flexible reference-grade stations. Product selection, protocols, and support.
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Featured deployments
Three of the projects we're proud to be part of, from autonomous ships to the world's tallest building.
Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS400)
Gill MaxiMet GMX500 on board the AI-driven autonomous ship that crossed the Atlantic without a crew.
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Monitoring wind at the Burj Khalifa
WindSonic sensors at the world's tallest building, feeding structural safety data 828 metres above Dubai.
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Saildrone sets a world wind speed record
Gill WindMaster on board the Saildrone USV that recorded the highest wind speed ever measured by an unmanned vessel.
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Why engineers pick Gill
Six things our customers say again and again, across four decades of measurement.
01
40+ years of ultrasonic
Gill pioneered the ultrasonic anemometer. Four decades of refinement sit inside every sensor we ship today.
02
Chosen for headline projects
Specified on the Mayflower Autonomous Ship, the Saildrone world-record USV, the Burj Khalifa, and projects at Plymouth Marine Laboratory.
03
No moving parts
Ultrasonic measurement eliminates the wear, bearing drift, and icing failures of mechanical cup anemometers.
04
Designed and built in the UK
All products engineered and manufactured in Lymington, Hampshire. Quality-controlled end to end.
05
King's Award for Enterprise
Awarded for International Trade and presented by HM Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire.
06
UKAS-accredited calibration
Through Labcal, the group's independent calibration laboratory, so the data you rely on is verifiable.
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Products
Compare wind sensors
Side-by-side comparison of WindSonic, WindUltra, WindObserver, and WindMaster 3-axis sensors.
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Services
Calibration & repair
UKAS-accredited calibration and factory repair, through Labcal and the Gill service team.
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Support
Downloads & datasheets
Product manuals, datasheets, firmware, and technical notes for every product in the range.
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