9 Downloadable software for wind plant developers, owners, and operators for wind plant optimization and improving wind plant performance by enabling communication among individual wind turbines, collecting wind speed and wind direction data, analyzing the collected data, and sending control, derating, and shutdown signals to the individual wind turbines; downloadable cloud-computing software, IoT Edge computing software, and server software for wind plant developers, owners, and operators for wind plant optimization and improving wind plant performance by enabling communication among individual wind turbines, collecting wind speed and wind direction data, analyzing the collected data, and sending control, derating, and shutdown signals to the wind turbines