Live: No signal? No problem! Drones inspect power lines in signal-dead zones via satellite

[00:00:18]the technology was widely adopted in the Yunan uh grid. So in order to achieve this technologies, what kind of equipment are we using? The first set of the equipment is the ground station systems where we are going to see the flying track as well as the speed the photos that we've been taken and also the height it flight among other theories of the informations.

[00:00:47]So what we do through the connections of the satellite we have built a automatic networks. This is the terminals of the inspections. Here we can also see the telecommunication signals. At the back there is a set of the positioning systems which allows us to inspect the ground deployed and drone inspection systems.

[00:01:14]And on the uh sky we are also going to be able to see some of the drone connected uh stations where we are going to be able to send the controlling information to the flight which is going to be allowed the uh plane to be automatically fly on the sky. So we are going to see that there are some the white modules carried on the drone. This is the connecting part with the satellite right. Yes, this is a sky liner which is going to be automatically communicating with the satellite and deliberate the signals sent by the satellite and for the lines in the drones uh is it stabilized? Yes, we are going to enable it to have the inspection. Okay, let's start.

[00:02:15]Satellite signal connection normal.

[00:02:20]>> Start inspection.

[00:02:36]Is the drone being operating normally?

[00:02:40]Yes, we can view the drone's inspection through the portable launching pad.

[00:02:51]And the drone is still in my viewing site. I'm also going to monitor it through the U channels later on the signal is going to be lost and we are also going to be switching back to the signal inspection pad.

[00:03:08]Mr. Lee, can you introduce us what kind of element does it include and for the drone inspections in the power industry?

[00:03:20]It is the inspecting the towers, insulators among other different spare parts in order to guarantee the uh computer visions and also the power transfers. So here we have also prepared some of the show uh the panels showcasing what did we do before and what we are doing with the new technology.

[00:03:46]So Mr. Lee could you please unfurl the image. So this is the inspection models in the signalless areas through the ground stations. We are going to inputting the signals to the telecommunications. The telecommunication panels is going to pad is going to be sending the information to the drones.

[00:04:08]And with that there's going to be one question that is to say the uh telecommunicators is going to be caught from the drones. The second question is that I'm not going to the distances between the uh uh quarks and also the telecommunication is not going to be less than 3 kilometers. This is image demonstrating the new technologies through the satellites. is going to be connecting the on ground station and through the on ground stations we are going to use the telecommunications and also to integrate the terminals on the ground. So the positioning is going to be using the telecommunication to be transferred signals into the telecommunication satellite and then the signal is going to be setting on to the drone site. This is going to be addressing the two part uh two questions in one part just as we learned from Mr. Lee as without the drones it is the human dominated inspection. You have also experienced the human dominated inspections. Could you elaborate on that? On that part as a electricity worker it used to be a hard work. I sometimes I'm not well fed and even if in a very hazard weather I still need to inspecting each one of the stations and I also need to climb very steep mountains. So today even though uh there are some of the problems occurred and also um um some something happened in my legs. This is something normal occurred to the electricity workers. But after deploying the drones the efficacy has been improving greatly and uh we have increasing the efficacy by five times. This is what we call the 2.0 era and where we are right now is the 3.0.

[00:06:10]It is where we are going to be connecting the drones. We don't need the uh operators for the drones. We can automatically set up the inspection lines to finish all the inspections. You have mentioned about the 3.0 areas at the 2.0 areas. In the signalless areas, we are going to use the um remote monitorings. What kind of question will it be uh experiencing?

[00:06:42]the experiences and also the maturity is very high and for the Vietnam great we used to be interfered a lot by it and uh they are flying and the skill to have and also apart from the human reliances there is also we don't have a lot of human inferences about it. So with the 3.0 arrows so for the uh how long does it take for this one time of the inspection and uh in the 2.0 areas what happens actually if it's not mature if the operator is not mature at the skills they usually take at least 40 minutes.

[00:07:36]So this is also very important for our digital transmissions. I think it helps a lot for the technologies. Is it replicable in more remote areas in more signalless areas? Yes, it is. We are planning to have the two directions. The first one is to be apply it to the uh fixed uh transational uh tracks. The second one is that we can also see these uh areas. There's no any possibilities for us to relying on the ground signals.

[00:08:08]So we are planning to install the satellite equipment and in order to improve the using conditions and covering the 4,800 square kilometers grant you have just mentioned the future of this technologies including these kind of areas and uh what is going to be benefiting for the future deployments.

[00:08:37]So first while we are applying into the Nessos there's 4,800 kilometers there's not a much possibility for us to apply it and once we switch it to the lower earth uh satellite we are going to automatically design the inspections and if we fix it and the we are also going to be adopting the satellite to be working on the on the disaster relief work. And while it is being carrying um by a large size drone, they can carry it for a longer period of time. And uh they are also going to inspecting a larger areas in order to let us all understand what happens within guarantees the safety and security of the channels. And we can also see that on the pad it has a real time understanding about the roots.

[00:09:35]And currently we have fulfilled the first round of the inspections.

[00:09:39]Currently the drone is moving into the next stage. This is the forward tracks of the drones. And also for the other different tracks, these are the automatic inspections. And uh for this counterpart, it is automatically going to be covering the cameras and also the video taking procedures.

[00:10:02]And for the different parts, It started from the point 20 to 29. This is the definitions we designed on the track. This is the camera that we've been taken. We have taken a few uh photos and this is actually the inspection speed. It is around 5 m inspection.

[00:10:26]This is the height. We are generally operating at 167 m. And this is actually the aptitude the general uh status and we are also having some of the hardware bms. This is actually the flights the suspensions and also for the drones after it has been carrying out it is automatically going to be sending it back. So as long as the drone is rising, there is no need for us to carry out any inspections.

[00:11:04]And while we are setting it, we have two inspections. The first one is to use the uh clicks.

[00:11:18]Then we can planning what is happening on the sky. The second one is the precisive photo takings. So before the inspections, we need to plan every single tracks or trajectories so that we can generating a long-term trajectories for every areas that we went to. We are going to have the inspections. That is to say after you are building the database, we can use it.

[00:11:48]And now we are reaching the point 24 >> and also point 25.

[00:12:02]We can also see the drone flying in our camera view the position or each one of the point. Are there any some of the uh biases?

[00:12:17]Definitely there are some of these uh deliberations from the tracks but we are combining with the current situations in the electricity industries. we can satisfy the demand. So we believe this is not a very influential result in the inspections for each one of the points. How many uh images are we going to be taking? Generally speaking, for one sets of the insulators, we usually takes three images of it and we also have six uh inspections where we are going to take the six images and six photos. So this is a very closed towers where it has some the micro insulators.

[00:13:14]We are also going to see that for the flight here. It has also flying across the 29th point. Did we concluded the flying mission? Yes, we are on our way back. We have been following the point to be back and also we can see it.

[00:13:36]The uh drone has been flying back.

[00:13:45]and the auto inspections does it being affected by the value. Yes.

[00:13:50]>> It is because the product itself is only in the testing stage. We have not improve it in the massive production. That's reason why it's not that waterproof. So they might be affected in the rainy days.

[00:14:11]This is also one of the major directions.

[00:14:15]So we are also going to be applied into more scenarios and also having the inspections and this is also one of the major directions that we have been working on.

[00:14:29]We are also seeing the drone is flying above us.

[00:14:34]Not too long ago it is going to be dropping down and it's also going to be the point one and is it point one? No, no, no. The point one is the starting point and for its landing point it is going to be somewhere near the point one and what is going to be the range of the drones?

[00:15:08]It's uh above level 21 in the lower altitude. It's approaching 39° centigrade. It is going to be fulfill the automatic inspections.

[00:15:22]Apart from the two towers, are there any other warhead range missions? This is going to be dominated by the missions that I'm carrying. If I did not need to take that much of the photos, I can even fly higher and the only limitations is our battery uh far from um our battery is being limited. In order to fulfill missions, how many battery of the batteries did you prepare? What is going to be the batteries range? is going to be decided by the inspection missions. Generally to speak for each one of the drones we are going to prepare eight groups of the batteries with the drawing inspections what is going to be the frequencies and for our missions based on the requirement of the V9 grade and according to the risks of the uh equipments and also the healthiness of the equipments. We are going to be deciding it to the different markets and the different blocks in order to inspect it more precisively. We are going to see the drone is being landing and the mission is about to be completed.

[00:16:39]So we are going to see that all the images and datas it has been taken is going to be introduced into our electricity systems for the further inspection. And currently because we are also working to uh together with the nation for the digital transation and we are actually lacking the whole life cycle management.

[00:17:10]>> We are seeing the drone being landing here.

[00:17:18]So with the some of the blockages I am going to land it manually.

[00:17:45]The drone has completed its mission and the image is going to be inspected and transmitted back to our systems for further inspection. We are going to uh get out of the installation panels of the drones in order to have a better understanding about the signals and also summarize the signals and through the human compounding. We are going to have some of the deficiency management for the automatic recognition systems is a human systems or easy by the AI injections. We have a whole set of the AI systems where we can identify the 80deree uh kind of deficiencies. We are actually currently at the digital centers for every single image it being taken by the drones and right now it has been introduced by the automatic inspection systems we have in invited Mr. Dlay the chief inspectors and for the automatic inspection systems we are going to use the uh SP to uh in for example the deficiency inspections and also the uh for every photo that we been taken on the site. We have identified the smart grid systems.

[00:19:15]We are also collecting the pressure signal, the insulator and also the wires which is a very important part and after we introducing the systems we are going to use the smart recognition systems and with one single click they are going to be have the real time dealing with these systems and we have been building the systems based on the deep learning algorithms where we can identify the uh nestles and also the insulators and also the missings among other different 18 different deficiencies and with the automatic recognitions. This is the result. It is indicating the deficiency and also the numbers of what happens.

[00:20:11]For example, if there is any birds placing on their nestles on the on our station and then we take the images and then we can wrap all the information up and Excel spreadsheet and we can upload the Excel spreadsheet into our uh state.

[00:20:34]This is the processing. So compared to the traditional one what is the advantages and the traditional uh systems our treatment of the image is generally through the mandate images. If we checked one image by another we deploy the systems in a very short period of times we are going to have a very precisive treatment of the uh systems. This has going to be greatly lowering down the inspection efficiency and providing a lot of help to the equipments and for these smart deployment systems it has been deployed into every single runs of the electricity systems. Generally speaking for the V9 great for every single one of them they are deploying this kind of deficiency systems for the uh deficiency identification. Thank you so much for your kind introduction through the human inspections to the uh satellite direct connections. Today we are seeing a major shift of the inspection systems in the electricities. We are hoping the technologies could be better deployed in China. That wraps our live streaming today. Thank you.