Azure IoT brings more efficient new energy production and the look-at-the-face of the unmanned supermarket

Global analysts believe that IoT will grow in the coming years, and by 2020, sensors, new IoT devices, traditional PCs, smartphones, tablets, web TVs, and all kinds of wearable smart devices will be woven into a vast network of 30 billion to 50 billion devices, Penetrate into every corner of people's working life.

Physical devices of this size, together with the astronomical levels of data that are proliferating every second, are undoubtedly a huge technical challenge, but they also contain tempting riches. To help businesses from all walks of life respond to the challenges of the Internet of things and truly value them, Microsoft Smart Cloud Azure offers a highly integrated and customizable Azure IoT suite that is now fully serviced in the Chinese market.

As a complete cloud IoT solution,Azure IoT Suite integrates the various services associated with the Internet of things and big data analytics in the Microsoft Smart Cloud. With this set of pieces, businesses can easily connect and manage millions of of IoT devices and the resulting massive amounts of data through Azure IoT Hub Services , with Microsoft's leading cloud machine learning, Stream analytics, HDInsight Big Data analytics technology refine to extract valuable data insights from dull forms and logs, and to present them in a vivid, intuitive form and even an AI interaction through Power BI .

In China, Azure IoT Suite has helped customers of different industries, sizes, and scenarios, with significant benefits of increased efficiency, reduced costs, improved operations, and even a "predictive future" of preventative maintenance and AI management.

The "sub-health" of new energy production by intelligent in the cloud

From the global to China, wind energy, photovoltaic power generation as the representative of the new energy industry rapid development, China's wind and photovoltaic power generation in the field of cumulative Installed capacity and new installed capacity has become the world's first. Compared with the traditional energy stable and controllable mode of production, wind energy, solar energy itself has inherent unpredictability, to a large extent to "dependent on", so how to plan production cycle, improve production efficiency, is the core concern of the new energy enterprises.

Hong Kong-listed Concord New Energy is a well-known renewable power Enterprise, both in the operation of wind and solar power plants, but also to provide design, consulting, Jian ' an and operation and maintenance of professional services. They hope that by building a new energy equipment management platform integrating the Internet of things, big data and cloud computing, the two key indicators of "energy availability" and "time availability" can be improved to bring about the upgrade and transformation of Operation management mode for the enterprise itself and the whole new energy industry.

The key to increasing the two ' availability ' is to minimize equipment downtime and sub-healthy operations. The so-called ' sub-health ' operation, is the equipment although in operation, but not work in the best working condition, this situation by artificial is more difficult to identify, resulting in the loss of power generation. "We hope to achieve self-improvement with the use of the Internet of things, cloud computing and fine-grained management of big data," said Kandahai, general manager of the Energy Network of Concord New Energy group, managing director of Beijing Powertrain Technology Co., Ltd., so choose to work with Microsoft to lay out the energy Internet and strengthen the core competitiveness of the new energy service market. Reduce the operation and maintenance cost of power plant, improve the efficiency of operating and service power plant's assets. ”

Concord New Energy is the first enterprise users to adopt the Azure IoT suite, starting from July this year, with the support of Microsoft technical experts, in only three months to complete the original system to the Internet of things cloud platform development, docking, upgrade work. This cloud platform, built on Azure IoT suite, is known as "power+" and is now able to capture, store, analyze, and visualize data insights from Power Bi, with Azure's highly scalable design Now has the ability to access 100GW power plant data processing, and can be scaled to scale as needed.

"The Azure IoT suite on the Microsoft Smart Cloud gives us 3 months to complete the original plan to build a six-to-one-year platform." And with the flexibility of the cloud platform, we are able to join this platform flexibly and quickly in all parts of the country, and even in the global range of equipment units. "Currently we are testing for preventive maintenance using machine learning, and the goal is to increase the availability of 1~5%--for example, a 50MW wind farm with an annual output of about 100 million degrees and a 2% increase in electricity costs, which can produce more than $ more than 1 million a year," says Mr Kandahai. "In addition, the power+ platform to the past cyclical inspection work into a targeted" target inspection ", the system every day from the tens of thousands of photovoltaic cluster intelligent diagnosis of" sub-health "serious status of a number of clusters, diagnostic accuracy of more than 85%, which greatly improve the maintenance efficiency, Save time and labor costs.

Today, the cloud big data platform based on Azure IoT Suite power+ has been applied to more than 1,000 wind turbine units and more than 5,000 PV inverters and Combiner boxes across the country. In the future, Concord New Energy hopes to develop this system into a formed cloud solution, serving more new energy power stations, and gradually forming an open and shared new energy big data platform to benefit more peer companies and research institutes.

Smart, unmanned supermarket

A pioneering enterprise in Guangzhou, pain IT company , has evolved the vending machine into a "smart micro-super" that implements Internet thinking-a 24-hour internet-connected unmanned supermarket.

Pain's "smart micro" vending machine looks much more than a traditional vending machine "foreign flavor": they have a huge touchscreen, a hot and cold partition, and the ability to accommodate a wide range of products in hundreds of drinks, headphones, smart Band, and more, and support a variety of popular payment methods. More importantly, each vending machine is a networked terminal, behind which is the Microsoft Smart Cloud.

Pain leverages Azure IoT hub services, Stream analytics, and SQL database Data Services in Azure IoT suite to build a complete cloud management platform that provides full real-time visibility into the sales and inventory of goods on the shelves. The system administrator can keep abreast of what time, what product is out of stock, what kind of goods good sell information, without the need for regular manual inspection and replenishment, which greatly improve the efficiency of logistics and operations management, can reduce inventory turnover to less than a week.

Microsoft's advanced AI technology has also been introduced into the "smart micro-super" platform. The system not only provides intuitive data insights through power BI, but also incorporates the AI robot (self-vending) helper based on the Microsoft Robot Framework (bot framework), where administrators can ask questions directly, such as "which vending machines need replenishment?" "The system will tell you directly according to the data feedback," 1397th vending machine needs 7 bottles of Coke, 12 bottles of Sprite. In addition, the new generation of "smart micro-Ultra" terminal also joined the Microsoft Cognitive Services based face recognition system, can provide a more user-friendly human-computer interactive experience.

"The Microsoft Smart Cloud IoT service has helped us achieve intelligent, efficient retail management. We are also leveraging big data analytics to further improve the user experience and provide more targeted advertising services. "At the same time, we will work with Microsoft to further advance the innovation of IoT + AI to create the world's leading smart micro-solutions," said CTO Cao Wenbin of Guangzhou gan Come Information Technology Co., Ltd. ”

"Thirteen-Five-Year Plan" clearly put forward to actively promote the development of cloud computing and the direction of the Internet of things, domestic and foreign analysts have predicted that the 2020 China's Internet of things market scale will reach trillions of yuan--there is no doubt that the internet of things is not to be missed development opportunities.

With a secure, global-scale cloud platform, industry-leading big data discovery and AI technology, and a seamless solution, Microsoft Smart Cloud Azure will empower partners and customers to discover the opportunities and values in the IoT boom.

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Azure IoT brings more efficient new energy production and the look-at-the-face of the unmanned supermarket