State Grid Heilongjiang Electric Power provides data resources for the construction of ubiquitous power Internet of Things

On July 10, the Sophia Cathedral and Flood Control Memorial Tower in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, were released globally in real time through high-definition cameras and 5G technology. The video data was stored in the 220 kV Harbin West Substation Data Center of State Grid Heilongjiang Electric Power Co., Ltd. The company's ubiquitous power Internet of Things multi-station integration project is entering the fast lane of commercial operation.

As one of the first batch of multi-station integration construction and operation pilot units of State Grid Corporation of China, State Grid Heilongjiang Electric Power has seized the strategic breakthrough period of building a world-class energy Internet enterprise with "three types and two networks", and has opened a new chapter in the construction of ubiquitous power Internet of Things with multi-station integration as the entry point.

Lean innovation to build ubiquitous power Internet of Things

The State Grid Heilongjiang Electric Power Technology Innovation Team insists on independent innovation, promotes technology implementation, conducts cutting-edge technology research, and promotes and applies advanced technologies such as remote operation and maintenance integrated cabinets, real-time collaborative platforms, automated operation and maintenance, cloud platforms, and operation and maintenance audits to the field of information and communications, and has achieved fruitful results in remote operation and maintenance, cloud computing, and automated operation and maintenance. The company's innovation team has obtained 118 patents, including 28 invention patents; 3 international science and technology awards; 22 awards including the State Grid Corporation of China Science and Technology Award and Employee Innovation Award, and published more than 40 papers.

With the goal of integrating resources, professional operation, bit energy storage and achieving profitability, State Grid Heilongjiang Electric Power continues to explore how to achieve effective integration and efficient application of data center stations, energy storage stations, Beidou satellite ground reference stations and 5G base stations in the power field. High-density container data centers suitable for multi-station integration are gradually turning from blueprint into reality.

High-density container data centers can utilize resources such as power supply, network and some idle land in substations, and achieve good adaptability to the high-cold climate in the north through high-density and modular construction. The center can carry large computing workloads, and through the overall management of the fog platform, form a distributed data center to achieve local access, storage and analysis of internal and external data. The center remotely operates the container itself and the equipment installed inside through the network and out-of-band methods, provides all dynamic and environmental elements of the computer room, collects and analyzes the operating parameters of the equipment in the box, and improves the automated operation and maintenance capabilities.

State Grid Heilongjiang Electric Power also makes full use of its technical reserves and application experience to build highly flexible, one-click micro-tools and other automated operation and maintenance tools, and improves the level of automated operation and maintenance by leveraging the efficiency, openness and scalability of the automated operation and maintenance platform.

"We are fully committed to promoting the construction of ubiquitous power Internet of Things, making full use of existing technology reserves to implement pilot projects, and exploring entry points for the construction of ubiquitous power Internet of Things around the requirements for building a world-class energy Internet enterprise with "three types and two networks". We use existing technology reserves to carry out multi-station integration construction and operation pilot projects." Zhao Wei, head of the State Grid Heilongjiang Power Ubiquitous Power Internet of Things Multi-Station Integration Project, introduced.

Explore multi-station integrated business operation model

State Grid Heilongjiang Electric Power has not only achieved technological innovation in multi-station integration projects, but also realized a business model for effective output of multi-station integration projects through low investment.

The company conducts external leasing businesses such as host hosting and bandwidth leasing, provides value-added services such as private cloud IT resources and edge computing, and expands new profit growth points... By building a multi-station integrated unified resource service platform, scientifically allocating space resources, storing, integrating and analyzing internal and external data resource information, the company is at the forefront of achieving efficient resource management and operation.

"Through the data center station, we can realize real-time statistics and accurate analysis of the company's production data, which not only improves the work quality and efficiency, but also reduces the burden on grassroots teams. At the same time, idle data stations can also be rented out for profit." said Qi Feng, a technician in the construction of the State Grid Heilongjiang Power Multi-Station Integration Project.

From 2019 to 2021, State Grid Heilongjiang Electric Power will continue to improve the multi-station integrated operation model, and comprehensively deploy distributed data center stations in Heilongjiang. The stations will be interconnected, perceive each other, and coordinate with each other to form a decentralized fog computing grid, realizing data center stations, energy storage stations, Beidou satellite ground reference stations, and 5G base stations to provide strong support for the construction of ubiquitous power Internet of Things.

"We will combine the construction of 'three types and two networks', through the multi-station integration construction of 13 municipal power supply companies and the reinforcement and transformation of ubiquitous power Internet of Things network nodes of 71 county-level power supply enterprises, to achieve infrastructure standardization, ubiquitous Internet of Things application platform, and information operation and maintenance automation, to solve the problem of weak foundation of informatization construction of newly designated rural power grid units of State Grid Heilongjiang Power, build regional hub nodes of ubiquitous power Internet of Things, and initially form the grid structure of ubiquitous power Internet of Things." Zhao Wei said.