Ubiquitous power Internet of Things will achieve customer-centricity

"Building a ubiquitous power Internet of Things and integrating it with the smart grid will realize the digitization, networking and intelligence of the power grid. Through comprehensive perception of the energy system and the power system, the traditional operation mode of the power grid will be changed with data-driven and artificial intelligence methods, and the power grid will be built into an equal and interconnected platform with sources, networks, loads and storage online throughout the entire process, equipment and devices online throughout the entire process, and industry and ecology online throughout the entire process." On May 28, Wang Jiye, deputy director of the China Electric Power Research Institute and director of the State Grid Energy Internet Technology Research Institute, pointed out.

At the same time, the construction of a ubiquitous power Internet of Things will make the power grid a hub for energy transmission and conversion, and a shared platform for social economy and people's needs; it will drive the transformation of the power grid from a traditional industrial system to a platform-type system, support the linkage between the supply side and the consumption side, and efficiently connect new energy, various types of energy storage, electric vehicles, electricity substitution, energy efficiency interaction and other elements and services, open up sharing and efficiently achieve supply and demand matching.

We are conducting scientific research in many fields

It is understood that since State Grid proposed the construction of a ubiquitous power Internet of Things at the beginning of this year, it has aroused strong response from all walks of life and wide recognition from the capital market.

In order to comprehensively promote the construction of ubiquitous power Internet of Things, State Grid has released the Outline for the Construction of Ubiquitous Power Internet of Things, formulated and formulated the 2019 Construction Plan for Ubiquitous Power Internet of Things, and clarified the construction tasks for the whole year, involving 57 construction tasks in six major aspects, namely internal business, external business, data sharing, basic support, technical research, and security protection, as well as 25 large-scale comprehensive demonstration projects at four levels, namely provinces, cities, counties, and parks.

At the same time, the company has formulated a research framework for key technologies of ubiquitous power Internet of Things, condensed 10 major scientific research directions, focusing on more than 20 basic, forward-looking and strategic key technologies such as smart chips, smart sensors and smart terminals, Internet of Things platforms, artificial intelligence, and more than 10 core products such as "State Grid Core", energy routers, and multi-station fusion equipment, and concentrated on key research. Among them, 49 ubiquitous power Internet of Things technology projects were launched this year.

Wang Jiye said: "The ubiquitous power Internet of Things is innovation first, and then interconnection." During this period, the State Grid created five source-grid-load-storage collaborative services (electric vehicles and distributed new energy, household smart energy use, community multi-energy supply, commercial building energy efficiency improvement, industrial enterprise and park energy efficiency improvement), as well as five energy Internet ecosystems (electric vehicles, distributed photovoltaics, comprehensive energy efficiency, energy e-commerce, and big data commercialization), and innovatively carried out the development of distribution network live operation robots based on artificial intelligence to promote non-stop power operations and reduce power outage time. For example, the company innovated the mobile emergency repair app operation mode to shorten the emergency repair arrival time, and residential users participated in power supply interaction through handheld power and WeChat public accounts; deeply explored the value of smart meter data, combined with distribution automation construction, and greatly reduced the impact of power outages caused by distribution network failures.

It is reported that the construction of ubiquitous power Internet of Things will realize the comprehensive layout of a large number of sensor perception systems and build a new platform, which requires breakthroughs in multiple core technologies. To this end, the key research areas currently being carried out by State Grid include chips, edge computing, artificial intelligence, data fusion, network security, intelligent terminal fusion, new generation information communication, energy conversion, comprehensive energy utilization and optimization, and high-proportion consumption of new energy.

Form a clean, green and sustainable social ecology

As we all know, the Industrial Internet is an important strategic step in the transformation of my country's economic development. The construction of the Energy Internet is to realize the connection of the Industrial Internet in the power and energy fields. It is a new energy and power industry with comprehensive perception, full online, and full-factor interconnection formed by the deep integration of the energy and power system and the Internet system. The construction of the Ubiquitous Power Internet of Things is to realize the Energy Internet. So, what impact will the construction of the Ubiquitous Power Internet of Things have on the economy and society?

Wang Jiye introduced: "At present, energy is transforming towards clean and renewable development, but due to the contradiction between the random uncertainty of new energy and the properties of the power grid, it is necessary to use perception and intelligent methods to solve the problem of high-proportion new energy grid connection and absorption. Therefore, the power grid is an important platform to support the transformation of energy structure. Ubiquitous power Internet of Things is an inevitable path." At the same time, the ubiquitous power Internet of Things will improve the overall efficiency of the energy system, promote the improvement of the overall energy efficiency of society, drive the rise of green ecology, integrated energy services and the rapid development of electric vehicles, and form a clean, green and sustainable social ecology.

In addition, the construction of ubiquitous power Internet of Things and energy Internet will also drive the development of industrial ecology, not only promoting the development of electric vehicles and electrical industries, but also promoting the integration and application of high-tech core technologies such as 5G, chips, and artificial intelligence through digitalization, networking, and intelligence, and driving the innovative development of high technology in the real industrial system. During this period, power facilities will reflect multiple values, such as realizing environmental monitoring, public security monitoring, traffic monitoring, and data perception.

"We propose the 'multi-station-in-one' substation, which can be used for energy storage and charging as well as a data center. This is the contribution of the ubiquitous power Internet of Things to the optimization of social resources." Wang Jiye further explained.

Improve people's participation and sense of gain

For the public, building a ubiquitous power Internet of Things will transform the traditional power grid industrial system, changing the focus from supply-side guarantee of electricity use to customer-centeredness, bringing more sense of gain and participation.

Wang Jiye introduced: "It used to be To B, but now it will change to To C. Through the interconnection of power Internet of Things electrical appliances, energy efficiency will be perceived and improved to achieve energy saving. At the same time, costs will be saved through interaction and smart electricity use, further promoting electricity substitution and promoting the improvement of my country's electrification level." More importantly, the ubiquitous power Internet of Things will enable energy users and power grid companies to form an online interconnection, realize the choice of energy use methods, and can choose time, electricity price, energy collection objects, etc.

In other words, the energy internet will not only provide basic energy supply, but also provide various forms of value-added services, and users can obtain other values ​​and benefits such as energy saving, energy efficiency, and trading. For example, the average power outage time for residents will be shortened, and residents can interact with the power grid more conveniently through handheld power, making it more convenient to charge electric vehicles, and improving the power generation efficiency of distributed power sources through photovoltaic cloud networks.

At present, the research on the construction of ubiquitous power Internet of Things has been fully launched, and pilot projects have been rolled out on a large scale. It is foreseeable that this huge Internet of Things will connect all people and things related to electricity, promote the transformation of the Internet into the real economy, and affect everyone.