This little giant company uses fully automated drones to conduct 'physical examinations' of power systems | Frontline

文|Wang Fangyu

Editor|Su Jianxun

As a high-tech product, drones are widely used in aerial photography, express delivery and other fields, and have gradually entered people's daily lives. In fact, drones also have huge potential in industrial and commercial fields such as agriculture, plant protection, surveying and mapping, and power inspections

At the recently held 24th East Asia and Western Pacific Electric Power Industry Association Conference of the Asia-Pacific Electric Power Association, Yunsheng Intelligent participated in the exhibition as a company focusing on the R&D and manufacturing of industrial-grade intelligent drones, and demonstrated a variety of fully autonomous drones. Human-machine inspection system products demonstrate the various applications of drones in the field of power inspection

Yunsheng Intelligence is a high-tech enterprise established in 2017. With artificial intelligence as its core and relying on four-dimensional holographic real-life maps, it integrates industrial drones, fully automatic airports, ground robots, and IoT cloud platforms. . It has gone through eight rounds of financing, totaling nearly one billion yuan. In the field of power operation and maintenance, Yunsheng Intelligent has established benchmark projects in many State Grid companies across the country after years of intensive cultivation

Line inspection work has long been one of the hardest and most troublesome jobs in the power industry. Before 2019, line inspection work basically relied on manual inspections on foot. In places with extremely harsh environments such as deserts, plateaus and deep mountains, this method of patrolling is not only labor-intensive, but also very inefficient and poses considerable safety risks

Drones replace manpower for power grid inspections, which is like giving them wings, making them a flying operation and maintenance tool. This not only greatly improves the inspection efficiency, but also uses visible light, infrared, multispectral, lidar and other technologies to discover and identify defects that are difficult to detect during manual line inspection

Yunsheng Intelligent Drone Patrol Image Source: Enterprise Authorization

What seems to be a simple drone is actually the depth of software technologies such as digital twins, artificial intelligence algorithms, Internet of Things, and 5G end-edge-cloud integration, and hardware technologies such as carbon fiber materials, semi-solid batteries, insulation spraying, and AI chips. integrated.

The current application of drones in power grid inspections is still in its early stages, and the quality of products and services from manufacturers varies. Although the products of some drone manufacturers claim to be unmanned, in fact they still require power grid companies to specially train drone pilots to manually control the drone

“In the past, drones ran out of power after flying for 20 minutes, and pilots had to carry a large pack of batteries. Therefore, Yunsheng Intelligent decided to develop a device that allows drones to automatically replace batteries and sensors, thereby It solved the problems of power supply and unmanned operation. We took the lead in developing a fully automatic airport." Dr. Zhu Shengli, co-founder and CMO of Yunsheng Intelligence, revealed to 36 Carbon

According to reports, Yunsheng Intelligent UAVs can achieve the entire process without manual intervention, automatically plan routes, automatically replace sensors, and provide users with 7×24 hours fully autonomous unmanned inspections, which can achieve true significance. Autonomous and unattended drone data collection.

Yunsheng Intelligent’s one-stop solution enables fully autonomous and unmanned inspections. The drones, airports, Internet of Things and artificial intelligence are all self-developed by Yunsheng Intelligence, making this solution possible

Some UAV companies may purchase hardware from Company A, purchase a hangar from Company B, and finally use Company C’s software to assemble them together to provide services to customers. This approach cannot meet the individual needs of customers and the speed of response. It will also be slower. What Yunsheng Intelligent provides is a one-stop solution that is fully independently developed. This is the competitive advantage of Yunsheng Intelligent, said Zhu Shengli

The application of Yunsheng Intelligent drones in the power field is not limited to power transmission, transformation and distribution in power grid scenarios. They are also used in new energy power generation sides such as photovoltaic power stations and wind power stations, and energy storage power stations such as pumped hydro. Application, it can also adapt to complex environments such as mountainous areas, forest areas, hot and extremely cold environments.

At the just past Asia-Pacific Electric Power Association Conference, Yunsheng Intelligent proposed and built a "new power operation and maintenance system" oriented to "source network load storage", which can control the entire power from power generation to power grid to power consumption and finally " Monitor and operate the entire chain of "storage".

Different entities in different links in the "Source Network Load Storage" have different opinions on the size, endurance, accuracy and sensor types of UAV equipment. Yunsheng Intelligent has built a full product matrix ecosystem of large, medium and small sizes to meet the diverse needs of downstream customers.

In addition, Yunsheng Intelligent's cloud platform can not only discover defects and diseases of power facilities and carry out maintenance and repairs, but also store and manage data in these processes in the time dimension. With the help of digital twin technology, the management and operation and maintenance of the entire life cycle of power infrastructure can be realized

Zhu Shengli said: "We are the first company in the industry to integrate the concept of time and space into a new power operation and maintenance system, and can conduct digital intelligent full life cycle management of the entire chain of design, survey, infrastructure, safety supervision, operation and maintenance, and iteration. enterprise."

At present, the construction of my country's large power grid is about to be completed, and digital grids, smart grids and new power systems are replacing traditional power grid construction and becoming new growth points

Public information shows that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the State Grid plans to invest approximately 2.23 trillion yuan to promote the transformation and upgrading of the power grid; the China Southern Power Grid plans to invest approximately 670 billion yuan to accelerate the construction of digital power grids and modern power grids. Only two giants Enterprise investment will exceed 2.9 trillion yuan.

As far as the smart grid market is concerned, some institutions predict that the domestic smart grid market size will exceed 300 billion yuan in 2030. This undoubtedly brings broad market demand for secondary power equipment represented by inspection drones.

The mission of Yunsheng Intelligence is to solve many difficulties faced by people by improving production and life efficiency. Zhu Shengli said: "Yunsheng Intelligent will uphold its mission and use advanced technology and product innovation to achieve the seamless connection of 'source-grid-load-storage' to ensure that all aspects of the new power system can receive power guarantee."

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