Digital Power: Tech, Trends & Solutions

A guest post from author, advisor, and influencer Elise Quevedo covering a power chat with Huawei’s Edwin Diender on digital power trends and solutions.

As announced in our Pre-MWC23 video, I caught up with Edwin Diender, CIO Electric Power Digitalization Business Unit, Huawei Enterprise Business Group to discuss his MWC23 highlights.

We spoke about:

➡️ Edwin MWC23 highlights (01:23 – 07:50)

➡️ Are face-to-face events still important? (07:51 – 14:25)

➡️ Updates from the Electric Power department (14:26 – 21:50)

Huawei says it’s committed to becoming the best transition partner for the global electric power industry. Laying a digital platform and establishing an ecosystem of industry partners — a strategy coined as platform + ecosystem — Huawei integrates innovative Information Communications Technology (ICT) and digital power platforms with best industry practices to build its solution system for the electric power industry.

During our chat, Edwin shared a few of their electric power solutions:

Solution 1: Intelligent Wind Power Network

End-to-end network connections for wind farm, step-up substation, O&M centers, implementing unmanned and intelligent wind power inspection.

Solution 2: Intelligent Substation Inspection

Innovative IT technologies are integrated with OT systems to implement multi-dimensional, real-time sensing of devices and environments of substations.

Solution 3: Power Distribution IoT

Based on the industry’s specific hardware platform and software app architecture, this implements flexible access for various services and ensures power grid security.

Solution 4: Electric Power Wireless Campus Network

Using loT, Wi-Fi 6, SD-WAN, and Al technologies, this solution builds a secure, reliable, and smart 0&M campus network.

If you want to know more about how Electric Power moves further, I suggest watching the “Electric Power | Find the Right Technologies to Power Global Energy Transition session” led by Edwin during MWC23

Speakers included:

• Nikos Hatziargyriou, Professor of National Technical University of Athens
• Zhou Haojie, COO Electric Power Digitalization Business Unit, Huawei
• Darmawan Prasodjo, CEO, PT PLN
• Dimitrios Zografos, Director, Asset Management, IPTO
• José Said Flores Alonso, Director, CFE Telecom

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Let’s continue building the right partnerships around the globe, because as I always say, together we are stronger.

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