1Execuvive Engineer (R&D), GPRD, GUVNL, Gandhinagar
Online Published on 09 December, 2021.
The adoption of digital technologies allows devices across the grid to communicate and provide the information/data useful for customers as well as for grid management point of view and its complex operations. The development of smart electrical grid requires installation of digital grid devices capable of handling digital information. The location of connectivity of digital grid device is an important and mandatory aspects. Still, many power utilities in the Country do not have accurate access of data/information of the network assets. The asset details available are partially digitized information of the electrical network and the same lacks updating on regular basis making it redundant. The complete digitization of the electrical network requires specially designed GPS receivers (Rovers), a Base Station, and GIS software. These are proprietary products of the selected vendors. Additionally, due to its obvious vulnerability, these cannot be adopted to handle the large scale data requirements. Also, it is difficult to develop and manage wide spread electrical network of the Government Utilities, which involves multiple integrations, amendments, and changes.
