From products to

system intelligence
Born connected 3.0

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Introduction
Added transparency, enhanced productivity & advanced intelligence
Digitalization is a chance and an enabler. It empowers industries to tackle
their current challenges, for example, implementing improvements in
performance, health, safety and environmental topics, as well as cost and risk
reductions. However, in order to benefit from digitalization, it is necessary to
generate data first. While these opportunities seem to already be common
sense in many industries, the transmission and distribution industry was not
able to benefit from this industrial revolution for a long time.
By merging classical physics and information technology we are bringing a
fundamental shift in the industry. With smart sensors, cloud computing and
IoT the limitations of the past are now making way for intelligent products
and systems. Future is about scaling up product intelligence by challenging
physical frontiers of theoretical knowledge with operational data and cloud
as default platform to offer complex asset models including analysis and
recommendations on demand and in real time. The goal is to shape the
transmission grids of tomorrow using smart products and smarter systems!

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Welcome to the internet of energy!
The second energy revolution is around the corner
We shifted an industry paradigm in 2018 with Sensformer®.
With the success of Sensformer® and Sensgear®, all our
transmission products have connectivity features inbuilt by
default. With this step, the high-quality substation products
of Siemens are now boosted to a new, digitalized level.
Just like the Sensformer®, the connectivity of all products
is ensured with a smart and robust IoT gateway securely
transmitting a minimum amount of required information
to a cloud-based storage and visualization platform.
By adding further data like weather information, even more
possibilities arise: There’s a storm coming? Sun is heating
up the asset? Wind is getting stronger and wind energy
input will increase? Now this revolutionary connectivity
concept that was initially introduced for transformers is
the first to conquer the complete transmission products
industry.
Born connected 3.0:
From “connected” products to systems
Substations continuously generate and remotely transfer
data to a control room using a classical multi layer
architecture. These substations also assess the overall
status of these assets and make decisions about their
short-term performance or replacement. The most
attractive and demanding challenge is to combine the
analog electrical transmission with a digital system for
further value creation and getting more insights into the
operational life of these assets. With connected products,
you can augment the traditional SCADA architecture
(as shown in the figure below). All assets of a high-voltage
substation can transmit data to a highly secure cloud-based
platform that represents a parallel information channel
to the SCADA system in real time. On this cloud-based
platform, data is analyzed by complex algorithms. As a
result, the conventional control protection philosophy
can now be combined with a more agile information
channel into a cloud platform for faster analytics.
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From smart products to smarter systems
From products to system intelligence
One major advantage of a cloud computing-based approach
is the rapid interpretation of the status data of a system
with a combination of products that is much faster than
with legacy systems. Additionally, more complex data
handling can be accomplished by using intelligent PLCs
or IEDs in typical SCADA systems. Thus, the analytics are
more accurate, computations faster and more reliable,
and response times lower. The breakthrough benefit of
this innovative approach is related to the possibility of
integrating operational information in a dynamic way.
Faster data analytics leads to enhanced substation systems
reliability and increased workforce productivity using easy
to navigate “apps” offering all important asset or system
information in near real time, anywhere, on demand and
with clear handling instructions. Fault localization and
management and even the prevention of fault occurrence
is now easy with connected products and systems.
Dynamic systems overload is now possible in a controlled
manner without damaging products when combining
Sensformer® and Sensgear® advanced with their digital
twins.
From diagnostics to predictive and prescriptive
intelligence
With more real time operational data provided by the
assets, it is possible to develop very complex algorithms
based on artificial intelligence and machine learning
to extract useful information in order to maximize the
equipment usage and compute the residual life.
Furthermore, cloud connectivity easily allows to collect
all data from different sources for faster analysis in an
integrated and more reliable system – moving away from
condition-based monitoring towards continuous
monitoring.
Convert your substations into data hubs
Just imagine: All connected products giving you a lot more
of information about your operational assets, you are now
able to better manage your assets, take informed decisions,
think about correlating events by connecting the dots,
e.g. the last operational date of your circuit breaker,
identify and measure creepage currents, identify weak
links in the system, optimize the asset operations through
increased use of ambient weather conditions, etc.
You can customize your dashboards and monitor exactly
as per your specific needs or requirements.
Optimize your CAPEX and OPEX
Advanced data analytics will increase the efficiency and
sustainability of assets and operations thereby reducing
your CAPEX and OPEX.This system intelligence, generated
from the combination of connected products, provides
an additional basis for overcoming the limitations and
complexity in classical substations and addresses the simple
monitoring needs of system operators, without replacing
the current control system philosophy, and simultaneously
serves as a valuable source of information.
Join the journey...
Digitalization happens at a speed that is yet unprecedented
in the transmission product industry. During the
Sensformer® journey two years ago, it was already evolving
through the scaling up of product features. The new
applications and benefits provided by the SensproductsTM
and their digital twins are enormous in transforming
classical substation operations. The increasing and ever
evolving network complexity raises the bar for transmission
system operators to guarantee a high and safe level of
power continuity and to maximize the productivity of their
systems, and we are confident that our SensproductsTM will
support them in achieving or redefining their operational
goals.
Data handling and security
Siemens fully understands the ever-increasing cybersecurity
requirements. As one of the main founders of the Charter
of Trust, we ensure that we comply with state-of-the-art
security and encryption technologies according to ISO / IEC
27001. For data transmission to the cloud storage, an
end-to-end encryption method is used. Each Sensformer®
or Sensgear® has a unique ID, which is also used for
encryption. The transmission takes place via HTTPS with
a 256-bit TSL encryption. We also comply with best-in-class
data handling and management guidelines to prevent data
breaches and ensure high security in the cloud.
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Publisher:
Siemens Gas and Power GmbH & Co. KG
Freyeslebenstrasse 1
91058 Erlangen, Germany
Siemens Energy Inc.
15375 Memorial Drive
Houston, TX 77079
United States
For more information, please contact:
support.energy@siemens.com
Authors (Siemens AG):
Puneet Harminder Singh
Pictures and graphics:
Siemens Gas and Power GmbH & Co. KG
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