AI surveillance means utilizing artificial intelligence in video monitoring systems for security purposes. It means employing deep learning algorithms to process live and recorded videos continuously so as to derive useful insights without necessarily requiring a human analysis.
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AI can recognize occurrences, conducts, things, configurations, deviations, visages, number plates, and audios, among other things. As a result of this real-time alerting capability, footage can be searched instantly, crowd analytics facilitated, and even automatic reporting made, among other smart enhancements. In fact, these AI surveillance platforms convert video data into ‘knowledge’ to enhance physical security.
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In a world increasingly focused on environmental responsibility, TECBOMO is emerging as a leader in delivering sustainable solutions to the utilities industry. They understand the challenges faced by utility companies – reducing their environmental footprint while maintaining efficiency and affordability. TECBOMO's suite of solutions tackles these issues head-on, helping utilities transition towards a more sustainable future.
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One key area of focus for TECBOMO is grid modernization. By implementing smart grid technologies, utilities can gain real-time data on energy usage, allowing for optimized distribution and reduced energy waste. Additionally, TECBOMO offers solutions to integrate renewable energy sources like solar and wind power into existing grids, promoting a shift towards cleaner energy production.
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TECBOMO's commitment to sustainability goes beyond just generation and distribution. We recognize the importance of water conservation in the utilities industry. Their solutions include leak detection technologies that pinpoint inefficiencies in water infrastructure, minimizing water loss and saving this precious resource.
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By partnering with TECBOMO, utilities can not only achieve their sustainability goals but also enhance their bottom line. TECBOMO's solutions are designed to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and optimize operations, leading to cost savings for utility companies and ultimately, for consumers. As the demand for sustainable practices grows, TECBOMO is well-positioned to be a key partner in the utilities industry's transition towards a greener future.
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To meet rapidly approaching global, regional, and local sustainability goals, energy producers and providers are racing to implement energy transition solutions that help ease the shift from existing infrastructure to a more flexible, secure, and intelligent model that can handle variability in energy sources and power demands.
Whether you’re focused on grid modernization or sustainable consumption, having a technology partner with an established history of collaboration and innovation across the energy supply chain can help you to simplify and accelerate your energy transformation journey.
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TECBOMO is thrilled to announce its alliance with Intel, a world leader in technology. This strategic partnership positions us to leverage Intel's cutting-edge solutions and expertise to empower organizations of all sizes. Together, we can unlock a new era of innovation, enabling businesses to develop smarter technologies that address global challenges and improve the lives of every person on the planet. By harnessing the power of Intel's processors and TECBOMO's industry-specific solutions, we can create intelligent systems that drive efficiency, sustainability, and progress in areas like healthcare, education, and environmental protection. This alliance marks a significant step towards a brighter future where technology empowers positive change.
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Modernize with Technologies for Smart Grid Solutions
Modernize with Technologies for Smart Grid Solutions
Grid modernization—transitioning from electric grids to smart grids built on digital and IoT solutions—is a do-or-die imperative for utility companies. Costs are rising, competition is increasing, and aging equipment is unable to keep pace with today's rapidly shifting energy landscape.
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The smart grid offers proven solutions to these challenges, but companies and engineers still need to decide how best to make the transition. That requires evaluating digital technologies and equipment to find the right combination of reliability, security, manageability, and flexibility.
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What Is the Smart Grid?
In the electric utility industry, a combination of forces, including regulatory changes and growth in renewable resources, is leading to rapid transformation of the grid to a new smart grid.
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The smart grid is an energy-generation, transmission, and distribution network enhanced by digital control, monitoring, and telecommunications capabilities. In addition to providing real-time, two-way flow of electrical power, smart grid technology, and applications allow for automated communication between utilities and their consumers.
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With the smart grid system, all stakeholders in the electricity chain, from generation plant to commercial, industrial, and residential users, gain insight into both electricity flow and the infrastructure transporting it.
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To add intelligence to existing infrastructure, new digital equipment and devices are strategically deployed to complement existing systems. This new layer of digital equipment connects all assets—an example of the Internet of Things (IoT) in action.
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The Smart Grid and IoT
The IoT movement is all about integrating connectivity into equipment and devices, connecting those devices to intelligent networks, and using data analytics to extract meaningful and actionable insights from them. For smart grid IoT, this means distributing computing intelligence throughout the infrastructure.
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For example, power generation companies are embedding IoT sensors into wind turbine vanes to control their pitch, rotation, and function, responding in real time to changing wind conditions. Likewise, substation control systems can respond quickly to events and minimize production downtime associated with network disturbances, all without human intervention.
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The greatest value of smart grid and IoT solutions is that they help realize the potential of data that resides in existing, unconnected infrastructure. Through real-time monitoring and a control infrastructure based on IoT technologies, utilities can gather data about every aspect of the electricity supply chain.
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System operators can then use powerful analytics, simulation models, and what-if scenarios to create more-precise predictions about a wide variety of factors, from the status of the grid to weather conditions.
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Benefits of the Smart Grid
Through predictive analytics, proactive operations, and other IoT-enabled features, the smart grid enables electricity companies, grid system operators, and engineers to:
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Reduce capital expenditures. Utilities can meet peak demand without waste and can distribute electricity in the most efficient way possible, minimizing transmission costs, and optimizing every component.
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Manage demand. With granular insight into energy consumption patterns, as well as IoT-driven predictions, utilities can balance demand with supply and minimize waste caused by overprovisioning.
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Increase renewable capacity. Utilities can incorporate more onshore and offshore renewables into the energy mix. Issues such as intermittent supply and smaller, distributed energy generation can be overcome while still ensuring a steady electricity supply.
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Lower maintenance costs. Insight into every generation, transmission, and distribution asset enables remote fault diagnosis, minimizes site visits, and supports predictive maintenance that focuses engineering teams on areas of greatest need.
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Improve regulatory compliance. Grid technology helps electricity and utility companies meet regulatory obligations to reduce carbon emissions by enabling greater use of renewables; supporting more efficient generation, transmission, and distribution; and supporting more efficient consumption. In the EU, this includes the commitment to reduce emissions to 54 to 68 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, and to nearly 100 percent below 2020 levels by 2050.1
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Enhance customer engagement. Electricity companies can use insights to develop an accurate picture of customers' usage patterns on which to base more tailored and competitive product and service offerings. This is especially critical to compete within deregulated markets and meet energy savings targets in regulated markets.
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Four Technology Imperatives
As the electrical grid moves from analog to digital, nearly every device and piece of equipment will require built-in, secure, interconnected intelligence. A new generation of industrial computers, connected IoT sensors, and advanced data analytics, as well as a supporting cloud and network infrastructure, will be needed.
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To achieve the promise of smart grid services, four broad technology criteria must be fulfilled: security, communications, analytics, and manageability.
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Security. Electricity grids are large, valuable, and critical targets that require a three-dimensional approach to security—protecting hardware, securing applications, and defending against cyber threats.
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Communication. Smart grid communication involves interconnected devices and systems sharing information with each other. Different protocols, from 2G to WANs, are needed to transmit data in local networks and externally to a central location. This requires common frameworks, based on open industry standards, so grid system operators can ensure interoperable connectivity without tying their grid ecosystem to one company's solution.
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Analytics. The smart grid offers millions of data points that present opportunities for insights and improvements. Collecting and analyzing masses of data in real time requires advanced smart grid technology. ​
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Manageability. Manageability covers three broad areas: equipment, software, and security. Particularly when assets are geographically dispersed or otherwise hard to access, remote diagnostic, control, and repair capabilities can dramatically increase equipment availability and reduce costs.
Originally built for one-way power flow from centralized generators, grids now must manage a decentralized, two-way flow that includes solar and other highly distributed energy sources.
Substation Automation and Control Technology
Substation Automation and Control Technology
Electrical substations are the building blocks of an energy grid, responsible for regulating and changing voltage levels as electric power flows from generating station to consumer. But many were built decades ago when switching, adjustment, and data collection were done manually.
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As renewable energy sources make the process of power generation more distributed, I'ntel is working with utilities worldwide to digitize substations, with the ultimate goal of providing energy more reliably and efficiently.
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Smart substations have built-in control and automation capabilities but can also receive commands from remote users. This dual ability reduces the possibility of communication failures and the impact of power outages and can reduce development and maintenance costs.
The modern smart grid benefits from advances in built-in communication technology. More and more substations are able to utilize fiber optic‒based communications. Utilities are also implementing IP wireless network solutions to communicate with automated substations, allowing them to keep track of equipment condition and apply preventive maintenance.
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With the rise of smart grids, Intel® architecture-based smart grid solutions are helping utilities worldwide take substation automation to new levels. This goes beyond the traditional supervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCADA). Today, multiple intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) communicate with each other and supervisory control centers through standardized protocols. This data needs to be unified, secured, and ultimately transformed into easily accessible information. And the software must be easy to upgrade, so utility companies can continue using their existing IEDs as they scale.
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Utilities and other energy customers are increasingly interested in smart grid technology. And by educating regulators and policymakers, Intel is playing an important consulting role in the process of modernizing and digitizing aging grid infrastructure. The results: increased system efficiencies and capabilities, reduced costs, and increased customer satisfaction.
Smart Microgrid Energy Technology
Smart Microgrid Energy Technology
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The traditional electricity grid needs an upgrade. It was designed decades ago to funnel electricity from large power plants burning coal and natural gas. But as renewable energy booms, more power is flowing from smaller, dispersed sources like wind and solar farms, and even individual homes and businesses. To take advantage of this progress and to pave the way for even more carbon-free energy in the future, we have to overhaul the grid. It has to become greener, by connecting to more carbon-free energy sources. It also needs to be more reliable and resilient, able to provide power—especially to essential sites like hospitals and military facilities—during and after disruptions or disasters.
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Technology is rapidly driving the transition to smart grids, which have the potential to meet all three challenges. At the same time, they introduce new challenges to grid security, reliability, and load management. Solutions using IoT technologies like AI, machine learning, and Big Data provide analytics, automatic control, and other tools to manage new energy assets.
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In particular, massive conventional grids are connecting with low-voltage microgrids, which help make electricity use more flexible and efficient. The idea of small-scale electric systems dates back to 1882, when Thomas Edison's coal-fired Manhattan Pearl Street Station in New York City served 82 customers within a radius of a few blocks.
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What Is a Microgrid?
A microgrid is a small-scale, local energy system that can disconnect from the traditional utility grid and operate independently. The ability to break off and keep working autonomously means a microgrid can serve as a sophisticated backup power system during grid repairs or other emergencies that lead to widespread power outages. Without any large infrastructure to maintain or repair, a microgrid is effectively hardened against storms or natural disasters.
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A microgrid can also integrate various distributed energy resources (DER) into the grid, including clean energy sources. Since wind and solar power output vary with weather and time of day, it's useful to be able to draw power when they're available but also have other options when they're not.
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These dual functions—backup and stability—help microgrids balance the need to provide reliable energy with the need to reduce carbon emissions.
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How a Microgrid Works
Current microgrid technology is relatively simple, with a few key elements.
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Microgrid Components
Like a traditional grid, energy generation is the heart of a microgrid system. This can range from diesel generators and batteries, the most common sources at the moment, to power generated by renewable resources such as solar panels, wind farms, fuel cells, or other sources of renewable energy.
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The point of common coupling (PCC) is where a microgrid connects to the main grid. In connected mode, the two systems operate in parallel, with the PCC maintaining equal voltage levels in both. The PCC can also allow the microgrid to import and export electricity from the parent grid in response to appropriate price signals, utilizing energy storage mechanisms such as batteries.
If there is a problem with the main grid, a switch can disconnect the grids either manually or automatically. In island mode, the microgrid can still provide enough power to serve critical customer loads, even if the main grid is offline. The machine learning capability of AI software helps to continuously optimize the process.
IoT products can make the grid smarter, safer, more secure, and more reliable, all while lowering costs for customers. Utilities that need to keep voltage and current at steady levels use architecture-based platforms to identify performance issues. Smart meters and sensors embedded in power lines can help prevent power outages, while other monitoring and predictive maintenance solutions for transformers and pumps reduce risk and cost.
Virtual Protection Relays (VPR)
Virtual Protection Relays (VPR) are a modern approach to power grid protection. They move away from traditional hardware relays towards software-defined functions running on virtual machines. This brings several benefits. VPRs can leverage the faster processing power of modern servers, leading to more precise and timely protection responses. They also reduce the physical footprint of substations by replacing bulky hardware with software, and simplify maintenance by allowing remote updates and upgrades. Overall, VPRs offer a more flexible, efficient, and reliable way to safeguard the power grid.
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What are Virtual Protection Relay (VPR) VPR's
Traditional power grids rely on physical hardware devices called Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) to perform critical circuit protection functions. These IEDs can be analog, electromechanical, solid-state, or microprocessor-based.
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Virtual Protection Relays (VPRs) are a modern approach that utilizes software-defined and virtualized platforms to achieve the same functionality as traditional IEDs. Essentially, VPRs run the protection functions as software applications on a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) ruggedized server.
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VPRs offer several advantages over traditional IEDs:
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Reduced hardware footprint: By consolidating multiple protection functions onto a single server, VPRs can significantly reduce the physical space required in a substation.
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Simplified life cycle management: Since VPRs are software-based, updates and upgrades can be done more easily compared to traditional hardware-based IEDs.
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Increased flexibility: New protection functions can be added or modified by simply updating the software on the VPR server.
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Leveraging modern processing power: VPRs can benefit from the faster and more recent CPU architectures found in modern server technology, potentially improving performance.
VPRs are considered a key building block for modernizing the power grid. They offer a more agile, efficient, and cost-effective approach to ensuring reliable and secure electricity delivery.
Renewable Energy Technology
Renewable Energy Technology
Since the days of Thomas Edison, power has been available to almost anyone at the flick of a switch. For over a century that was made possible by fossil fuels. But the rising threat of climate change has spurred the development of alternative energy sources that are both endlessly renewable and nonpolluting. Now, companies, cities, countries, and entire regions are rushing to embrace renewable energy, the fastest-growing global energy source.
Over 100 cities around the world now get more than 70 percent of their electricity from renewable sources. The ambition isn’t limited to cities: over 150 companies are committed to work toward using only renewable power.
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Renewable Energy Sources
Intel’s holistic view of pushing energy technology forward starts with knowing where computing power and intelligence can be most effective.
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Solar Energy
The technology to capture and convert the sun’s inexhaustible energy into electricity seems to be in a constant state of innovation. Solar panels themselves are continually becoming more efficient. Whether it’s a rooftop “solar skin” that is barely visible or solar-powered pavement that generates clean energy and powers its own streetlights, breakthroughs in photovoltaics (PV) are announced on a regular basis.
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Wind Energy
The booming wind power industry is seeing wind farms expand worldwide, both onshore and offshore. As the fastest growing alternative energy solution, and one that produces no pollution or emissions, wind power could one day supply a large part of the world’s electricity needs.
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Hydropower
The power of moving water is the largest source of renewable energy in the world. The idea is simple: water stored in a reservoir flows through an intake in a dam, where it spins the turbine blades of a generator and produces electricity. If the topography is right, the system can also be used to store energy by pumping water to a higher reservoir where it can be released on demand to create electricity.
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Geothermal Energy
The heat lingering deep within the earth can be tapped to create electricity or to heat or cool buildings directly. In places like Iceland, the heat from the earth is near the surface, and geothermal hot water is used to melt icy sidewalks and to warm swimming pools. In other places, deep wells tap into underground reservoirs of steam and hot water, which in turn drive generator turbines.
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Biomass Energy
Material from once-living organisms can have a second life as a power source through biofuel technology. Biomass feedstocks such as plants, lumber mill scraps, and municipal solid waste are dried, compressed, and burned to create heat, or converted directly into energy through gasification. Biomass is the only alternative energy technology that can be converted into liquid biofuels such as biodiesel and ethanol.
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Landfill Gas
Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, 25 times as strong a greenhouse gas as CO2. It also makes up roughly half of the gases produced by the decomposition of organic materials in landfills. Landfill gas generators take this steady flow of natural gas to produce clean energy through engines or turbines. As a bonus, they remove methane from the environment in the process.