5G accelerates the energy revolution, and future development trends are becoming increasingly clear

In today's world, the importance of energy is self-evident. As a major country with many energy sources such as hydropower, oil, coal, nuclear energy, and wind energy, my country has significant advantages in resource types and quantities. However, due to backward technology, equipment, and conservative models, my country's energy extraction has long been plagued by problems such as low utilization rate, serious pollution, and high costs, which seriously affects the satisfaction of development needs in the new era.

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In this context, with the advent of a new generation of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, it is an inevitable trend for the energy industry to accelerate the realization of intelligent and information-based upgrades. As a new generation of communication technology, 5G is becoming an important strategic resource and new infrastructure to support energy transformation. Its high speed and low latency can effectively drive energy production and model innovation, injecting new impetus into the energy revolution.

5G energy has a wide range of application scenarios

Energy is an excellent place for 5G to be used. The "5G Application Implementation Plan for Energy Sector" released by my country previously showed that it can be implemented in smart power plants, smart grids, smart coal, smart oil and gas, integrated energy, smart manufacturing and construction, etc. The plan pointed out that in the next 3-5 years, my country will explore and form a number of replicable and easy-to-promote business models around the above scenarios.

According to the specific content of the "Plan", the application of 5G in the field of smart power plants is mainly concentrated in four aspects: production control, smart inspection, smart operation and maintenance, and safety emergency response. Based on the integration of 5G with different technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and industrial Internet, 5G can realize real-time collection of production data and remote control of equipment, realize the interconnection of various production personnel and intelligent equipment, and realize the visualization of production and safety.

At the same time, in the field of smart grid, the value of 5G is mainly reflected in the aspects of power transmission, distribution and operation monitoring, distribution network protection and control, new energy and energy storage grid connection, coordinated dispatching and stability control, and comprehensive application of emergency site self-organizing network. Relying on the characteristics of low latency, high reliability and large connection of 5G network, it can promote the application of transmission, distribution and distribution robot inspection, drone inspection, high-definition video monitoring, etc., and help the comprehensive upgrade of smart grid.

In the field of smart coal mines, the deep integration of 5G and coal machinery equipment can also realize real-time interaction and remote control of various information in coal mining and production, and promote intelligent mining and production control; with the help of visual communication, real-time high-definition video transmission, and environmental monitoring data collection, it can realize environmental monitoring and safety protection; using advanced driving assistance systems, it can carry out the construction and application of unmanned driving systems in mines, and support enterprises to reduce costs and increase efficiency; and combined with VR, it can realize various virtual interaction functions.

In addition, 5G can also play a role in the oil and gas field in exploration, oil and gas fields, refineries, pipeline transportation and other links; in the cross-field of intelligent manufacturing and construction, it can also promote the realization of intelligent manufacturing, assist in on-site collection, upgrade construction site operations, strengthen remote monitoring, and ensure construction site safety... In short, 5G's value in promoting energy upgrades is diverse and significant, its application space is large, and its future potential is equally huge.

Future development trends and directions

So, what is the development trend of the integration of 5G and energy? How can my country develop to promote the development of 5G+energy?

Smart Manufacturing Network believes that the two main issues at present are 5G networks and 5G technology. For applications in the energy field, it requires both wide coverage of 5G networks, especially the improvement of dedicated networks, and continuous innovation of 5G dedicated technologies. Combining the development of these two aspects, this website believes that the future trends and development directions of 5G+energy are mainly the following:

The first is to accelerate the coverage of 5G private networks. At this stage, although my country has built more than 900,000 5G base stations, the 5G network has basically achieved initial coverage of major towns. However, these base stations are mainly built in cities, while my country's energy construction is generally concentrated in remote areas or places with harsh environments. In other words, the coverage of 5G base stations dedicated to energy applications is not enough, and construction needs to be further strengthened.

Secondly, we need to develop a number of key common technologies, including 5G virtual private networks, 5G drones/robots/remote inspections/remote control/5G AGV technology, 5G unmanned driving technology, etc. These are the key common technologies for the integration of 5G and energy, and are also the most widely used technologies. To this end, my country needs to take the lead in achieving breakthroughs in these technologies so that 5G can be truly implemented in the energy field.

The second is to establish a 5G application technology standard system in the energy field. For the 5G and energy industries, the integrated development of both parties needs to be based on the construction of their own standards. At the same time, it is also necessary to formulate a standard that covers both 5G and the energy industry. However, at present, whether it is the former or the latter, my country's standard construction is far from enough. Based on this, my country also needs to establish an application technology standard system that takes into account the technical needs of general scenarios and special scenarios.

Finally, we need to build a technology innovation platform related to 5G applications. The integrated development of 5G and energy is not static, and requires continuous technological innovation to maintain its vitality. Therefore, my country should focus on key common technologies and supporting special technologies related to 5G applications in the energy field, study and build a national energy research and development innovation platform related to the integrated application of 5G, big data, artificial intelligence and other advanced information technologies and energy, and accelerate the construction and improvement of the industrial ecosystem.