Building a Better Connected

Smart Grid

Stan Qiu

Head of Energy Sector

Huawei Technologies South Africa

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170+ Countries

228 Ranking in

Fortune Global 500 (Jul 2015)

170,000 Employees

Huawei: A Global ICT Solutions Provider

60.1 billion USD

Sales Revenue

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16 R&D centers

3.5 B End users

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ICT is the Nerve System and Enabler of Smart Grid

Information Technology Layer

Communications Layer

Power and Energy System

Layer

70% research

projects and

technology

interests

Observability – full sensing;

Controllability – ability to act on observed conditions;

Analytics - Conversion of data into information;

Self-adaptive; Self-healing;

Embedded processing – Distributed intelligence;

What

makes

Smart Grid

Smart ?

Power & Energy System

Communications

Smart Grid

Information

Technology

Smart metering

Demand Response

Analysis & Decision Support

Virtualization & Operation

Distributed Energy

4

Huawei’s Vision on a Better Connected Smart Grid

Resource-sharing cloud data centers provides an effective IT

platform for multiple business applications like BI, Data

Mining, decision support & analysis;

Fast and robust backbone network , flexible and converged

access network offers ubiquitous access to smart devices,

achieving real-time bi-directional interaction

With rich interface the IoT* gateway implements high-speed

two-way interconnection for intelligent meters, sensors, and

controllers everywhere, providing communication channel

to an open M2M platform

Grid data sharing

Agile communication networks

Better-connected smart terminals

输电

配电

能量流

Information Flow

IoT technology

Cloud Computing&

Big Data Platform

Agile Network

Energy Flow

Business Flow

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Cloud Computing Improves the Utilization of Information

Cloud

Marketing & Management Operation

MIS SCADA WAMS CRM OA EMS

Minicomputer

architecture x86 architecture

Information Silos

Data Center Infrastructure

Computing Resource

Pool

Network Resource

Pool

Storage Resource

Pool

Cloud OS

Server Storage Network

SCADA WAMS

EMS

Unified x86 architecture

CRM OA

MIS

Converged OT&IT

infrastructure

Marketing & Management Operation

6

Office OA

RTU

Video

Monitor

phone

TP service

High Reliability

- 99.9999%,

- <50ms Recovery

- <1 Hour AIHC

Converged network

- Multi-service access

Smart O&M

- visualized management,

- fast trouble shooting

National

dispatch center LV

Substation

(11KV)

IP/MPLS + WDM

21%

IP router No.2

22%

WDM No.1

Huawei Global Market share

Agile Telecom Network Enables Strong & Smart Grid

HV substation

(765KV)

MV substation

(132KV)

Telecom Network Evolution

Source: Dell'Oro, Infonetics, and Ovum

Regional

dispatch center

Telecommunications enables grid automation, operational efficiency and decision support;

The development of Telecommunications should synchronize with the development of the Grid

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Technologies Evolution Breaks AMI Deployment Bottleneck

Broadband PLC:

Operation Cost ↓ 30%

① 100% daily successful reading rate,

20 -30 % higher than narrowband PLC;

② Meter activation: 1day -> 5min;

③ Online upgrade: 10min -> 10s;

④ Real time line loss analysis and anti-

tampering;

① Compliant with DLMS, ANSI, etc.;

② Business applications integration;

③ Industry Alliance;

Comm.

Module IOT* GW

Open

Platform

Open Architecture: Flexibility

and Compatibility

• 10km coverage/cell;

① Millions of terminals access;

② IoT with 3GPP standard;

③ Low cost of deployment and

maintenance;

NB-IoT *

* NB-IoT: Narrow Band Internet of Things

IoT Controller

Wireless IoT:

IoT Oriented Architecture

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Huawei Serves Increasing Number of Power Grid

substations countries power companies of Top 10 grid

companies

China

Brazil

Korea

Sudan

Russi

a Norwa

y

Saudi Arabia Algeria

Zimbabw

e

Vietnam

Mexic

o

German

y

Kenya

EMCALI

Venezuela

Indi

a Thaila

nd Philippines

Australia

Indonesi

a

Costa

Rica

Ecuado

r

Canad

a

Huawei’s 10 YEARS

cooperation with SGCC

Servers 40%, Storage 90%

Routers, Switches 40%,

xPON 60%, OTN 51%,

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