%0 Journal Article %T Sistema de bajo costo para el monitoreo por condici¨®n a aplicar en parques e¨®licos %A Fidel E. Hern¨¢ndez %A et al. %J Ingenier¨ªa Energ¨¦tica %D 2011 %I %X This paper provides a general view of the condition monitoring and fault detection system applications on wind energyconverters. Firstly, implementation feasibility of condition monitoring systems is shown by analyzing severalapplications of condition-based maintenance on wind energy converters. Afterwards, the most critical failures in windenergy converters are described and current trends in such condition monitoring system applications are analyzed.Finally, a low-cost condition monitoring system implementation, interesting to be applied in developing countries, is proposed. %K Condition monitoring system %K fault detection system %K wind energy converter %U http://revistascientificas.cujae.edu.cu/.%5CRevistas%5CEnergetica%5CVol-XXXII%5C1-2011%5C62-71_Fidel_sistema_de_bajo_costo.pdf