Kenya: Application of Internet of Things (IoT) Management in Electric Power Industry.

With the continued growth of energy demand, intelligent grid has become the common choice for the global power industry to meet the challenges of the future. The power grid relay protection and fault information management system based on Internet/Intranet was proposed in 2001, this system improved the level of power network fault analysis and the management level of equipment such as relay protection and fault recorder. The urban and rural power grid management system based on GIS has been put forward which complete the distribution automation equipment management and user information system and had high generalization. A smart grid information platform based on cloud computing has designed, which realizes the reliable storage and fast parallel processing of massive information in the smart grid. Besides, data splicing, data migration and graphics integration and other key technologies are used to construct the integration of the whole set of computing data management system, this system realize the whole set calculation topology graph and the distribution maintenance and centralized sharing of the data. A smart home energy management system based on wireless network technology has designed, which has positive significance for the construction of intelligent power system. However, the realization of intelligent grid

depends on the on-line monitoring and real-time information control of the important operation parameters of the power network. Based on this, as a inseparable support technology for intelligent grid, the Internet of things technology has become the focus of research in the power industry.

Internet of Things.

Internet of things is the combination of wireless radio frequency identification technology and wireless sensor network, so as to provide users with the monitoring, command scheduling, remote data collection and measurement, remote diagnosis and other personal services of the production and life. In order to make it easier to understand the concept of the Internet of things, in simple terms, the Internet of things is that all of the world's objects are connected to a network, so as to form the Internet of things, then the Internet of things is combined with the existing Internet to realize the integration of the human society and the physical system, and achieve a more precise and dynamic way to manage production and life. As a sense terminal of intelligent information, the Internet of things will gradually penetrate into the power grid production and operation, so as to form the power network.

Power network

Power grid and intelligent grid are complementary to each other, the purpose of which is to further optimize the system operation and improve the safety and stability of the system. However, there are many problems in the Internet of things, in order to promote the development of intelligent grid, it is necessary to analyze and discuss the issue of power network and provide a powerful guarantee for the safe and stable operation of power grid.  Power network is a kind of intelligent network, which is formed by a variety of sensing

devices between various electrical equipment and personnel, which has the following features: Saving energy and reducing consumption: Power network achieves the real time monitoring of the power grid and the power supply situation and carries out the reasonable adjustment. Improving equipment operation safety and stability: Power network can monitor equipment operating conditions in real time, so as to facilitate the risk assessment and early warning.

Protecting the personal safety of employees: Power network implements the positioning tracking and management for the maintenance and switching operators, so as to avoid the mistakes caused by personal injury.

Whole life Cycle Management of Power Equipment Status

Grid enterprises uses Internet of things technology, through the RFID, GPS and other sensors to monitor and collect all aspects of the power equipment information (Including the environment, conditions, accounting, test, defects, reasonable selection of statistical methods), analyzes the life present situation of equipment, future development law and the key influencing factors, so as to form equipment risk assessment method based on Internet of things technology, this system can dynamically update the added, allocation, maintenance, idle, waste and other historical information in the life of power equipment, and establish

complete equipment management files. In this system, equipment status information and asset management information are effectively integrated, supervision management is unified.

Management advantages

The following benefits are realized in the management of power grid enterprise by the use of the whole life cycle management system of power equipment based on Internet of things: Combination of production operation and enterprise management: The intelligent dynamic real time tracking and centralized monitoring of add, allocate, repair, idle, scrap and other process of the whole life cycle of assets are realized by using power network technology, which provides an accurate reference data for the enterprise investment decision-making and asset allocation, effectively increases the marginal efficiency of investment and improves asset

utilization, then reduces unnecessary equipment investment and idle waste, so as to achieve high efficiency and low cost of assets in the life cycle. At the same time, the effective integration of equipment status information and asset management achieves the sharing of resources and information across departments, so as to improve the efficiency of enterprise operation and economic benefits Information and integration of asset management: In this system, the daily management of the assets is embedded into the asset management system, which realizes the record of the information of the task, the place, the material object, the time in the daily operation process of the asset, and introduces the alarm function. Whole life cycle management system of power equipment based on Internet of things achieves the effective regulation of daily work, reduces the pressure on the daily management of the assets, then saves a lot of manpower and financial resources asset inventory and unnecessary allocation cost, and avoids the loss of assets that

caused by a variety of factors, so as to improve the management efficiency of the enterprise.

Non - access mode of asset management: The system uses the public network IP access address, users can access the system anytime and anywhere through the Internet to achieve the asset management work of the remote office.

Conclusion

As inseparable support technology for intelligent grid, Internet of things technology has become the focus of research in the power industry. In order to achieve a high degree of integration of the intelligent grid and the Internet of things, I propose a whole life cycle management system of power equipment based on Internet of things in Kenya. Through the research on the functional characteristics of the Internet of things and its application status in power grid, the framework of the whole life cycle management of power equipment based on Internet of things is to be constructed. This system provides research basis for improving the application of the Internet of things technology in power systems and achieving a high degree of integration of smart grid and networking technology. Intelligent grid further optimizes the grid control of all levels, achieves the acquisition of power grid panoramic information through the combination of centralization and decentralization, and integrates a variety of production and operation of information, so as to provide a comprehensive and complete decision-making reference for the operation and management.