Abstract: How wasteful is electricity for an enterprise? Kilowatt-hours of electricity are consumed in small, everyday details that add up over time. Enterprises need to reduce costs, the country needs to reduce consumption, but how to really implement it in life? A student-student project team at South China University of Technology (SCUT) started a “smart energy use” approach. How did they save electricity? Let’s see what they have to say!
How wasteful is electricity for a business?
Into any office building, the summer air conditioning cold wind makes people tremble, energy consumption is huge; Most employees are not in the habit of turning off the lights, computers and printers at will. Everyone is busy with the work at hand, but they do not notice that even one degree of electricity is being wasted in these details. The energy consumption caused by a large amount of standby is a large number accumulated over a long period of time.
Enterprises need to reduce costs, the country needs to reduce the loss of power resources, but how to really implement in life, this is not a small problem. In today’s rapid development, to achieve energy conservation and environmental protection, not only rely on human self-discipline, but also can use the intervention of science and technology. In the sixth China International “Internet plus” College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition this year, a entrepreneurship team won the gold medal in the final with its own project, which is to solve the problem of energy conservation and environmental protection through technology, and realize smart electricity use with technology.
Make every watt smarter and more economical
Liu zejian felt relieved when he received an admission notice from south China University of Technology majoring in electrical engineering. After graduation, he could find a job in an electric power company and spend his whole life safely. But little did he know that his college life would take a completely different trajectory from what he had envisioned, and that his industry was undergoing radical change. Liu Zejian has contact with the professor Yang Ping junior from research in the field of energy, every contact with miss Yang Liu Zejian feel a strange sense of awe, especially seeing the teacher in order to do the research of electrical components, repeated practice, repeated proof in the laboratory, only to find a new breakthrough in the field of electric power and the research direction. Such sentiments and pursuits from the older generation of intellectuals deeply influenced Liu, who studied and improved his professional skills like his mentors in order to make the most of what he learned.
At this time, China’s electric power system also produced a major market reform. In 2015, with the release of “No. 9 Document of electricity Reform”, it means that China’s electric power system will gradually step into a new electric power governance system featuring green and low carbon, energy saving and emission reduction, safety and reliability, and comprehensive optimal allocation of resources by virtue of the power market mechanism. This will mean that enterprises have to do a good job of energy saving, energy saving, if not changed, according to the past way of electricity consumption, will greatly increase the cost of electricity, increase the expenditure of enterprises. As for Liu Zejian’s brother Zheng Qunru, he saw the huge development prospect of the electric power industry in the future, and was excited to find Liu Zejian, hoping to seize the good opportunity of the electric power reform.
From the market demand to the status quo of the industry, Zheng Qunru made a detailed analysis. Due to the electricity reform, 3.6 million industrial and commercial enterprises in China need to upgrade their technologies, services and business models. Although there are products on the market that can provide upgrading services for them, most of them remain in a single latitude, and no one can achieve systematic upgrading. For example, in terms of energy saving, the energy-saving products on the market are all single points or single devices, which are nothing more than central air conditioning, air compressor, frequency converter and other aspects of energy saving, which cannot meet the energy saving goals of enterprises after the electricity reform. “Compared with developed countries, China still has a lot of room to play in energy saving and cost reduction.” Looking at this fellow, Liu Zejian was moved, and the two of them immediately hit it off and established a project — Neng Eye-Cloud E-Eyes, which can help enterprises realize smart electricity consumption. It is not only safer and cheaper, but also can realize rapid deployment of large scenes, so that each electricity consumption is smarter and more economical.
Innovation project landing, still need a “Huawei Cloud”
While the opportunities are good, there are also many difficulties. As a startup incubated by South China University of Technology, in addition to technology, the team should consider the landing of the project. Starting in 2015, zheng QunRu and Liu Zejian can lead the team to have experienced countless for an Bai Tianao into the hard work of the night, and the entire solution is a blend of power electronic technology and cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, chain blocks, industry and so on multiple information technology, the Internet that can make eye cloud E – eyes project has made staggered results.
▲ Liu Zejian (left), Zheng Qunru (right)
In 2020, the team participated in the 6th Internet + College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition with the Nyeanyun project, and won the Gold medal in the national final, which is also where the relationship with Huawei was formed. Huawei is not only the sponsor of the Internet + competition, but also put forward a lot of very effective suggestions for the project during the competition, which helped improve the demonstration effect. Can eye cloud E – eyes project itself is a service-oriented cloud business scenario, at the beginning of the project to form has also encountered the problem of calculation of very cloudy, huawei as the mainstream of the cloud domestic manufacturers, has a mature ecology and strong technical strength, coupled with good impression of huawei cloud, in the process of participating team eventually choose to cooperate with huawei cloud landing version completed the project. At present, this project has made technological breakthroughs of varying degrees in the product acquisition layer, analysis layer, application layer and transaction layer, truly realizing the intelligent power consumption of enterprises.
In fact, the equipment in the acquisition layer is a design that overturns the electricity meter itself. Through non-invasive edge calculation, data at different time scales can be collected from seconds to minutes to hours in an adaptive way, so as to obtain more accurate and higher-dimensional data. Only enough accurate data can determine whether the portrait of the enterprise can be accurately depicted and provide effective data support for further analysis. Layer analysis algorithm, using artificial intelligence based on huawei cloud ModelArts platform data annotations and model training, quick learning, the human free from heavy development and deployment, is to identify the data security hidden danger, if the danger will happen will make timely early warning and response, which greatly improved the security of the enterprise power, To a large extent, the tragedy has been avoided and a lot of unnecessary losses have been reduced.
The power quality of enterprises determines the power consumption rate of equipment, so it is very important to maintain the power quality. The application layer breaks through the limitation of single index in the market, and can improve the power quality of enterprises in the indicators of unbalance, power, reactive power compensation and so on. The transaction layer solves the problem of electricity cost. After the electricity reform, the price of electricity in the market fluctuates, which leads to the same electricity consumption, but the final price is different, or even very different. You can’t reduce electricity costs just by using electricity. That’s too limited. In order to use more low-price electricity, Nengyiyun E-Eyes optimizes and regulates the equipment that can be flexibly adjusted by the enterprise, and decides whether to electrify through the fluctuation of electricity price, so as to reduce the electricity purchase cost of the enterprise. In just 5 years, the whole team has obtained 10 invention patents, 4 practical new items, 26 software Copyrights and won the recognition of scholars and experts in the industry.
Technology alone is not enough, wine is also afraid of deep alley
Even though Nengeycloud has made considerable technical achievements, it faces many challenges in getting to market. As a startup company that will enter the market in the future, technology alone is not enough, and the wine is also afraid of deep alley. In the process of project promotion, Huawei has provided assistance in many aspects in terms of technology and promotion resources, which has brought a large number of customer resources to the Nengyiyun team, helped the project reach more enterprises, greatly reduced the cost of acquiring customers for project promotion, and become a boost for Nengyiyun to rapidly occupy the energy conservation market. After experiencing the difficult moment from 0 to 1, more and more enterprises cooperate with Nengyiyun E-eyes, from the first to the second, and then to the third and fourth enterprises…… Nengyeyun, once a sleepy service, now serves more than 1,700 companies. In the second half of 2019, led by Guangdong Department of Industry and Information Technology, Nengeyyun E-Eyes project team and Digital Grid Research Institute of China Southern Power Grid jointly established intelligent energy use service industry cluster in the park, including some excellent energy Internet service providers, universities, scientific research institutions, financial companies, industrial associations in the park and other institutions. Nengyiyun team is mainly responsible for 216 enterprises in Zhaoqing National High-tech Zone. Currently, 124 enterprises have been served, covering more than 60% of the total enterprises. In the future, nengeyyun E-Eyes project team will promote the application of the system to the industrial parks in the whole province according to the successful experience of landing in Zhaoqing.
Intelligent base breeds future high-end talents
At present, China has entered the era of energy revolution, energy conservation and environmental protection is bound to be the theme of the future. However, it is an urgent problem that how to achieve rapid economic development while protecting resources. So for the future planning, can cloud E – eyes project will continue to explore better if combined with technology and energy, as in 2015 as a beginner’s mind – contribute strength for national energy development of beginner’s mind, growing technology maximum reduce energy loss, and not just rely on management, rely on empathy. For the future, the team hopes to cooperate with Huawei, a leading company in the industry, to build ecology and drive industrial development with technology, and to rapidly occupy the energy conservation market in the near future.
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