Power communication may become a breakthrough in the commercial application of 5G network slicing technology

Recently, China Telecom, State Grid Corporation of China, and Huawei jointly released the "5G Network Slicing Enabling Intelligent Application of Power Grid", which won the Best Design Award
of the "Bloom Cup" 5G Application Contest.
With the continuous advancement of the construction of energy Internet and smart grid, the power grid is becoming more and more dependent on communication technology, and the requirements for communication technology are increasing, and power communication may become a breakthrough in the commercial application of 5G network slicing technology
.

Communication has always been an important technical support for the safe and stable operation of the power grid, and plays an important role
in monitoring the status of the power grid and collecting data and information in the operation of the power grid.
Especially in recent years, power grid enterprises in the power communication industry to accelerate the pace of research, so that China's power communication research and implementation has been synchronized development, in addition, the management of power communication has changed more than in the past, the management work has become more detailed
.
The academic research of power communication has also been sustainably developed, and advanced communication technology will continue to be used in
power communication.

At present, with the concept of energy Internet, new and higher requirements
are put forward for power communication technology.
The basis of the energy Internet is the energy Internet of Things, which also means that in addition to the transmission and transformation ends, high-speed and reliable communication facilities need to be equipped, and a perfect communication network
needs to be built at the power distribution and consumption ends.

With the rapid development of China's Internet technology, the terminal equipment connected to the network has grown rapidly, resulting in the current network communication is very crowded, which greatly affects the quality and reliability
of communication.
In order to improve communication quality, major telecom operators have developed network slicing technology, which divides operators' physical networks into multiple virtual networks, each virtual network according to different service requirements, such as latency, bandwidth, security and reliability, to flexibly respond to different network application scenarios
.
The power industry is becoming a pioneer and commercial breakthrough in network slicing technology
.

On June 27, China Mobile, China Southern Power Grid, and Huawei jointly released the "5G Boosted Smart Grid Application White Paper", pointing out that as a new generation of power system, smart grid has the characteristics of high informatization, automation, and interaction, and its application of digital information technology and automatic control technology realizes two-way exchange of information in all links from power generation to power consumption, and systematically optimizes the production, transmission and use
of electricity.
The smart grid of the future will be a self-healing, safe, economical, clean and capable of providing a high-quality power network
that is suitable for the digital age.

The White Paper introduces the current situation and future communication requirements of five typical application scenarios of 5G smart grid, including intelligent distributed distribution automation, demand-side response to electricity load, distributed energy regulation, advanced metering, and smart grid big video applications, and provides an end-to-end network slicing solution for smart grids suitable for the power industry based on four major fields: end-to-end network slicing based
on device, pipe, cloud, and security.