Huawei and Thailand’s Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) jointly unveiled an innovative next-generation Intelligent Substation Solution, which is seen to modernize Thailand’s power infrastructure. Huawei will be utilizing its tech expertise in addressing the operational challenges in Thailand’s power grid network.
“Digital transformation is an inevitable choice for high-quality development in the power industry. PEA is accelerating the intelligent upgrade of substations, using technological innovation to redefine new paradigms of energy services,” said PEA Assistant Governor (Grid Operation – Network Operation) Pantong Thinsatit.
Huawei said that its next-gen Intelligent Substation Solution is designed to aid Thailand in its efforts in expanding renewable energy integration and manage increasingly complex electricity demand. To put things in perspective, substations transmit electricity from power plants, making it possible to transfer electricity or power to far places. Transmitting electricity over long distances can result in voltage drops, power losses, and reduced delivery, which is why modernizing substations makes sense to achieve a more efficient electricity or power transfer.
The tech company added that traditional substations often struggle with the following issues: limited security monitoring, inefficient and error-prone manual inspections, and outdated cabling that causes high latency and poor stability. To address these pain points, Huawei’s Intelligent Substation Solution leverages three core capabilities to build a modernized power grid network.
The first approach is to provide Thailand’s substations with an all-weather digital defense line that utilizes optical fiber sensing technology combined with Huawei’s AI algorithms. Through this, the system is said to deliver quick linkage monitoring with the capability to do 24/7 monitoring.
Huawei also shared that it will be innovating operations and maintenance models by deploying intelligent inspection solutions based on multi-scenario AI inspection algorithms. It will also be using Computer Vision (CV) large models combined with historical data analysis, and cloud-edge collaboration technologies. This enables remote real-time management of equipment operation status, achieving “AI precise identification and real-time alerting.”
The tech company added that it will be building a sensing network by deploying intra-station optical fiber networks using point-to-multipoint passive optical access technology. This is said to drive deployment costs and time to be significantly reduced, which can guarantee intelligent operation and maintenance of Thailand’s power grid network.
