As the 14th Five-Year Energy Plan continues to advance, the construction of traditional power plants into smart power plants continues to accelerate. So, what is a smart power plant? As an essential part of power plant operation and management, how will people achieve "smart" management?

P1. What is a smart power plant?

Smart power plants are based on intelligent power generation, through the extension and integration of power generation and other industries, forming a circular economy, improving the utilization of energy and resources, and taking on more functions to protect the environment and serve the community, which can not only become the capital of the power plant to participate in the market economy, but also the new expectations of the power company in the new era of ecological and social development. The smart power plant is equal to the "smart mastermind" of the power enterprise, based on the digitalization and informatization of the power enterprise, fully using cloud service platform, big data center, Internet of Things, 3D virtual interaction, AI, robotics and other technologies to fully integrate the traditional power production and management process with advanced artificial intelligence technology to realize the centralized control and in-depth control of the power enterprise. The centralized control of each sub-platform, deep information discovery and analysis, independent production process optimization, scientific planning of maintenance programs, intelligent decision-making and early warning, etc.

P2. the personnel "intelligent" management

The unsafe behavior of people is one of the causes of safety accidents, and is one of the most important aspects of power plant safety management. Based on the background of accelerated transformation of energy planning, and based on the strategic demand of wisdom upgrading of power groups, Woxu's wisdom power plant personnel safety management solution, based on the comprehensive upgrading of power plants, is based on the architecture of "end, management, edge and cloud", and integrates various technologies such as location awareness, 3D visualization, video monitoring, face recognition, two-ticket management, etc. The technology is integrated into the various aspects of safety management of smart power plants, so that the information of realistic scenes can be presented to the managers through technical means, thus achieving efficient supervision of prevention beforehand, monitoring during the process and tracing afterwards.

01 Management of outsourced personnel to improve safety control

In addition to the official employees of the power plant, there are also a large number of outsourced teams in the power plant. The quality of the outsourced team personnel varies, and they lack knowledge of objective sources of danger and safety risks. In order to minimize the occurrence of safety accidents, in addition to safety awareness education and training examinations, safety control of on-site behavior is also required. Using UWB technology to precisely locate the real-time location and trajectory of outsourced personnel and set up an electronic fence, the on-duty status of outsourced personnel can be monitored and counted, and alarms can be automatically issued for personnel entering key areas and dangerous areas, thereby reducing the risk of safe operation and also accurately assessing the working hours of outsourced personnel.

02 Management of personnel behavior violations, turning passive into active

Operational violations can be seen in various operations in power plants and can easily lead to safety accidents. In order to eliminate violations and prevent them before they occur, the UWB high-precision positioning system generates an electronic fence, and uses "technical defense" in cooperation with "human defense" to send out local and remote warning alerts for violations such as intrusion into dangerous areas, overtime stay, fall alarm, unsupervised, and failure to wear safety helmets. Local and remote warning alerts are sent out, and AI video is linked to identify and capture violations, ensuring 100% control of safety risks and building a "safety barrier" for smart power plants.

03 "Two tickets, three systems" management, to ensure process control

The "two votes and three systems" is one of the most basic systems in a power plant's production safety assurance system. The traditional management method is not highly correlated with time and space in real time, so managers cannot manage and trace the behavior of workers in real time. Woxu's solution automatically correlates the two-ticket operation area with spatio-temporal information, generates a virtual electronic fence, and automatically authorizes and recalls the authority according to the start time and end time of the two-ticket operation. At the same time, the risk information of the area can be pushed to relevant operators for risk pre-control. In addition, it realizes the status management of the inspectors in the tour inspection system, automatically generates the task progress and inspection trajectory of the inspectors, ensures that 100% of the tasks are executed, and improves the standardization of inspection operations.

P3. Typical application cases

P4. Finally

UWB high-precision positioning system is only a small step for traditional power plant to become a smart power plant. Woxu Wireless will continue to innovate based on UWB positioning technology, closely integrate with the business process of power plants, and highly connect with multiple systems of power plants to help power plants realize wisdom transformation.