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Do you still remember that old man who "uses love to generate electricity"?

In 2014, some environmental protection groups in Taiwan put forward this magical slogan because of anti-nuclear power demands, which was extended by friends in the two-dimensional world and became an online celebrity buzzword.

As a result, AI technology was really combined with electricity. My media colleagues and I have probably thought of borrowing this homophonic Terrier to write the story of "using AI to generate electricity". But cautiously speaking, AI can not directly participate in power generation, misuse of homophonic stem is not only very broken, but also suspected of the title party.

To put it another way, although "using AI to generate electricity" is not enough, the combination of AI technology and the power industry is actually happening. After several years of development, AI technology has developed a relatively perfect industrial system and played an important role in various fields of the power industry. Subsequently, the AI+ power industry began to release more dividends, opening a window of opportunity for more entrepreneurs and practitioners.

In the special period when the epidemic has not yet passed and the resumption of work has begun one after another, the topic of "new infrastructure" has appeared on various hot search lists. In the category of "new infrastructure", the digitization and intelligence of various industries is absolutely the top priority. From this point of view, the intelligence of the power industry will also release policy, capital and industrial chain dividends for a long time to come.

For most of us, the intersection of AI and the power industry is a relatively unfamiliar knowledge system. On the one hand, this involves relatively engineering AI applications, on the other hand, the power system is a highly sophisticated industrial system, and there are not many channels for industrial science popularization. But on this special day, we can learn about the real situation in this unique and important field from the series of live broadcasts created by Huawei.

With the maturity of the new ICT infrastructure and AI technology system, the power industry is ushering in a high-speed intelligent development period. Look for opportunities in this trend, and maybe you can get AI to give your life an electricity.

AI enable Power

Speaking of the combination of AI and electricity, it seems that Wang wants to see Wang.

A hundred years ago, electricity began to enter various industries and become the base of the new general technology in human society. It is hard to imagine any industry, or even any household, that can do without electricity today. People from all walks of life also have the same expectation for AI technology. AI can enable thousands of industries and liberate the relations of production in various fields.

In fact, the first stop of the rise of AI technology is electricity. In 2016, DeepMind, which had just been acquired by Google, started the AI power-saving plan in Google's data center before sending the famous AlphaGo. Based on DeepMind's balancing algorithm, Google's data center successfully reduced electricity consumption by 15 per cent. Later, the project was also entered the market by Google, hoping to help power operators save electricity.

In fact, the encounter between AI and electricity is more than just intelligent power saving. In the long industrial chain of the power industry, from power generation, transmission, power distribution, electricity sales to electricity consumption, all links are considered to be able to introduce AI technology to participate, so as to achieve the goal of improving efficiency, saving costs and reducing labor. AI unmanned inspection, AI transmission line visualization, AI distribution scheme, and AI+ big data power saving system are several key areas of AI+ power industry.

Generally speaking, the power industry is in various industries, especially suitable for the blessing of AI technology. Because it has the following characteristics, it is very suitable for machine vision and intelligent data, deep learning technology to improve quality and efficiency:

The main results are as follows: 1. The industrial characteristics of power grid are long operation cycle and high labor cost. If AI can replace part of the labor cost, it will bring great value.

2. The power system is a standard barrel model, and there must be no deficiency. Therefore, the net value of AI solutions such as intelligent identification and intelligent inspection is large and the demand is strong. Of course, the compliance and precision requirements of AI technology are also high.

3. The power industry has a high degree of data standardization and huge data scale, which is very suitable for AI re-matching. AI software and hardware can be deeply integrated with the power industry.

As early as 2009, the State Grid formulated the smart grid development plan, which greatly improved the grid's ability to optimize the allocation of resources, automation and environmental protection.

In this long epic encounter, a number of technology companies are targeting this emerging market, and real collaborative solutions between AI systems and the power industry are taking shape. And these channels also open the door of the intelligent era to the general public through the initial formation of industrial ecology.

Real collision between Atlas and Electric Power Industry based on Teng AI Computing platform

AI+ Power has a big cake, and if we want to make the logic a little clearer, we may have to cut off a piece of it first.

During the epidemic, the safe resumption of work and the unmanned industry have become a hot topic in the whole society. But if we look at the power industry, many jobs have already begun to become unmanned.

For example, circuit inspection, which is particularly important in the power grid system, but extremely difficult position. Because of the wide range of power grids across a variety of topographical environments, inspectors have to measure the lines with their feet in uninhabited areas, sleeping and sleeping day and night. In September last year, Huawei, in cooperation with the Shenzhen Power supply Bureau, released an AIoT video inspection solution to change the new capability of traditional manual inspection. With the help of a large number of online video surveillance cameras integrated with Huawei's Atlas 200 AI acceleration module and drones equipped with the Atlas 200 AI acceleration module, it took only two hours to complete the inspection in the past 20 days. In particular, this solution reduces the heavy work of inspectors and improves the job safety factor, which can be said to be a great contribution.

In fact, various technology companies are cutting into the industrial map of AI+ Power from different angles, and Huawei set up the ICT Lab with Shenzhen Power supply Bureau as early as 2018 to focus on the cooperative innovation of energy Internet and artificial intelligence.

Unlike technology companies that generally rely on AI algorithm to enter the power industry, Teng AI computing platform is based on Huawei's technical capabilities of full stack and full scene AI, from computing products to fill the gaps in the industry.

So this student may ask: even if Teng Teng's contact with the power industry is very special, what does this have to do with me?

This classmate, your question is very good. Let's go a little further and take a look at what unique value the Teng AI computing platform has contributed to the power industry:

1. Altas series products based on Teng AI computing platform can meet the key gaps in the computing power of end-to-side AI in power scenes.

As the energy AI is a high-precision industry, end-to-side real-time computing capability is very important, which makes the computing power and engineering of hardware AI become the biggest challenge for the industry. Altas happened to defuse this embarrassment.

2. Full-scene AI, which can be integrated into the systematic AI requirements of the power industry.

The full-stack AI architecture provided by the Teng AI computing platform and the product series composed of different intelligent computing products can be arranged and combined into a variety of scenario solutions to meet specific scenario requirements and systematic requirements.

3. The extensive ecological nature of the Teng AI computing platform.

From the date of its birth, Kunpeng and Teng Ecology have taken opening up as the goal and implemented the strategy of open source of software and open hardware. All types of ecological partners and developers can use Teng to find their own solutions to integrate with the power industry to solve the long tail problem.

Do you understand the answer to that question? For example, the Teng AI computing platform is like a series of "AI Lego" created by Huawei for ecological partners and developers. In the face of the endless long tail market, localization market and industrial chain market in the power industry, the builders of these Lego will be you, me and him other than Huawei.

If the encounter between AI and electricity is the collision of two crustal plates, arching a towering mountain, then if travelers want to climb this mountain, they must have a mountain road-Teng Teng happens to be a safe, reliable and scenic road.

If you are the protagonist, how to turn on the adventure of AI and electricity?

Industrial AI is considered as the throne of "AI+". As the industrial field with the highest precision, the most complex scene and the most perfect systematization in the country, the electric power industry can be said to be the most dazzling gem on the throne of industrial AI.

As the Internet dividend and demographic dividend tend to be exhausted, more and more developers, entrepreneurs, and school students begin to turn their attention to AI+ Power, a new window of opportunity for industry intelligence.

For entrepreneurs in the technology industry, change is opportunity, and opportunity is everything. But as far as the AI+ power industry is concerned, understanding must precede action. If you also want to explore this unknown territory, be sure to make a map of the AI+ power industry in as much detail as possible.

AI enabled electricity, a trillion-level industrial demand, has begun to unleash opportunities to the outside world today. Among them, the main industrial opportunities are in the industrial details, in the long tail market of verticalization, localization and industrial chain reconstruction.

The view discussed above is that Huawei's Teng AI computing platform is like a "AI Lego" for industry developers to achieve industrial AI goals with different requirements and scenario attributes. Then in the ecological cooperation of Teng Teng, it naturally gave birth to the "industrial treasure map" drawn by the forerunners in the field of "AI+ Electric Power".

For example, Zhiyang Innovation has partnered with Huawei to build a solution for the Internet of things for transmission equipment, relying on a series of products. In the practice of AI detection of transmission lines, Zhiyang Innovation has found some problems, such as lack of real-time performance, long monitoring blank period, low accuracy of front-end algorithm and so on. Based on Huawei's Atlas200 AI acceleration module, Zhiyang Innovation embeds the Atlas200 AI acceleration module into the visualization device, so that the front-end equipment has AI analysis capability, greatly improves the intelligence level of the front-end monitoring equipment, and effectively shortens the monitoring blank period; at the same time, they add Atlas deep learning solution in the monitoring center and constantly train and optimize the AI algorithm model, so as to improve the intelligent efficiency of the system in real-time and dynamically.

Another partner, Asia Alliance Development, has jointly launched a solution for intelligent operation and inspection of substations with Huawei based on the Teng AI computing platform. This scheme turns the traditional manual monitoring into automatic machine identification, realizes the intelligent monitoring of the whole scene of substation equipment status, personnel behavior, regional security and so on, and helps power customers to improve the efficiency of operation and inspection. Effectively ensure the safe and stable operation of the power grid.

From the practical experience of these two companies, we can find that if we want to tap the industrial opportunities of "using AI to power", we must pay attention to the following issues:

1. Innovate on the premise of understanding the technological foundation, especially the industrial foundation, so as to avoid inventing the wheel. For example, the Teng AI computing platform has done a lot of leading work, providing an industrial springboard for developers and practitioners.

2. Based on mature cases, understand the connection points between power industry and intelligent computing industry. Summarize the real industrial experience and industrial wisdom in practical cases to avoid blindly entering unknown areas.

3, to find out the details of the front-line industry, often a detail is an opportunity. Teng ecology is not only an industrial form, but also a kind of industrial logic. Finding opportunities to identify problems and achieve innovation is a reliable way to enter the AI power industry today.

The upcoming live broadcast of "AI Power Industry Intelligent upgrade Special session" will show how Huawei Teng AI computing platform combines with the industry and puts forward its own solutions to ensure the safe operation of transmission circuits and improve the efficiency of operation and inspection. This live broadcast will be very appropriate for users who want to understand the overall trend of AI power and the intelligence of the industry; especially for entrepreneurs, engineers, AI technicians and students, it is also a very good practical learning opportunity.

In a special period, we look forward to "AI power", which is also to enable Huawei's AI technology to help us generate electricity in our own lives.

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