Advanced automation systems are a must for reliable and affordable power

SCADA technology and the challenges and necessity of smart power systems for smart cities. Excerpts from the submission during the EPR Magazine Power talk on Powering smart cities with green energy
Although the complexity of the power grid will increase due to increased demand, we will have a higher power system capacity because of the availability of sustainable technologies. The grid for the smart city will become more scalable, reliable, and robust because of the system’s use of sustainable energy, sustainable goods, and digitalisation. Future power systems will likely include cities due to urban areas becoming more and more power-intensive consumers and producers of power. We will be considered producers in the sense of both creating and consuming energy, regardless of whether we are cities or individual consumers.
To integrate various types of assets, energies, and ecosystems in the process, the power systems of smart cities must be durable, versatile, and connected. Digitalisation will undoubtedly assist with this, but ultimately, the availability, dependability, and affordability of electricity need to be addressed, which needs to be done flexibly. We need greater automation, more digitisation, and real-time control protection. We also need to go toward autonomous security to create, store efficiently and use renewable energy under control.
Three sectors will provide us with, for example, sustainability in smart cities and energy-efficient systems, which many OEMs offer. Since this traditional rotating machine will use less and less solar power, we at Schneider make equipment, devices, products, and solutions more sustainable by using sustainable materials and addressing the sustainability of these products in the lifecycle of power electronics-based control.
SCADA for IoT-enabled technology
While discussing the SCADA technology and traditional automation systems Akilur Rahman, Chief Technology Officer of Hitachi Energy India Limited, states, “we refer to the SCADA energy management system as well as the protection and control systems. In terms of digitisation, which will be a protected system using our core technologies. Consequently, whether we talk about IoT or cloud computing, it’s an extension of the system, not a replacement. So that in addition to what is occurring automatically in the EMS, SCADA, and other systems, we may obtain data about the asset and the process.
As a result, whether it’s a transformer, distribution feeder, switchgear substation, or communication system, we have observed that we can monitor the asset’s performance and foresee when it will malfunction or fail. To arrange for maintenance, we can anticipate that in advance so that there won’t need to be a sudden circuit trip followed by some parts going into blackout mode. It will complement the traditional core automation and SCADA system through digitalisation and the IoT. Consumers, utilities, DISCOMs, and infrastructure providers in the city will all be able to understand how important it is to have real-time monitoring and data regularly.
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