2017 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Big Data Analysis

Impact of Big Data on Electric-power Industry

Liu Qing Zhu Boyu

Info.&Document Center Planning and Development Division
State Nuclear Electric Power Planning, Design & Information Center of CAAC
Research Institute Beijing, China
Beijing, China e-mail: [email protected]
e-mail: [email protected]

Li Qinqian
Info. & Document Center
State Nuclear Electric Power Planning, Design & Research Institute
Beijing, China
e-mail: [email protected]

Abstract—Mobile Internet technology is more and more into

people's lives. Big Data for the commercial, economic, service, II. CONCEPT AND CHARACTERISTICS OF BIG DATA
and other areas has brought the earth-shaking change. Over What is Big Data? From the literal sense, it refers to the
the next 10 years will be a Big Data to lead the age of wisdom, amount of data involved is huge, so that information can not
both opportunities and challenges. The data in a certain sense capture, management, processing and finishing, to within a
has become a new economic asset class. How to use Big Data to
reasonable time, through the current mainstream software
create more value will be a new task faced by all industries,
tools. Many of the current methods of data analysis may pay
especially the power industry. In this paper, Big Data platform
model of the power industry and nuclear power survey and more attention to detailed data analysis and data mining in
design industry is designed. Author focuses on the impact of detail[1].The concept of big data is focused on the relevance
Big Data on the Electric-power industry. of the mass of data, rather than the accuracy of each data. In
the author's opinion, the biggest difference between big data
Keywords-nuclear power survey and design; Big Data and current data mining is how to analyze and find the
foundational models; Data mining; decision making correlation exists in the mass data. Research for Big Data is
more than just a way,Big Data research focuses on ideas and
methods.
I. INTRODUCTION A. The Difference between Big Data and Data
With the rapid development of information networks, our The traditional sense of the data is structured, Big Data
life is seriously affected by cloud computing, cloud services, including structured data, semi-structured data and
cloud platform. Every industry and field will face significant unstructured data. Big Data including graphics, text, pictures,
changes. However, with the advent of the cloud era, more audio, video and other formats. Its contents include our blog,
and more attention has been attracted to Big Data. Big Data micro-blog, our location information, transaction information,
has become a major disruptive technology revolution in the etc.. For example, now many software can be associated with
IT industry, following the cloud computing, Internet of Ali-pay, phone book, photos, text, audio and video data and
things. other information[2].The data of traditional data is structured,
The relationship between Big Data and cloud computing therefore, the data analysis and data mining can follow the
is inseparable. Big Data uses a distributed architecture, law.Big Data has a lot of semi-structured and unstructured
which features a massive data distributed data mining (SaaS, data, it is the law that follows in the analysis process is
Software-as-a-Service), but it must rely on cloud computing, unknown. Analysis of large data needs to be simulated in all
distributed processing, distributed database (PaaS, Platform- aspects of the information, to assess the form of its analysis,
as-a-Service) and cloud storage, virtualization technology and to calculate the possibility of the credibility. Compared
(IaaS, Infrastructure as a Service).The strategic significance to data, Big Data has an obvious characteristic: Frequent
of big data technology is not to master the huge data interaction between the data needs analysis of large-scale
information, but rather how to carry out specialized data data, and the combination of business data mining in real
processing of these data. As a survey and design industry in time.
the information age, how to use big data to develop services
for the power industry is the subject that we need to explore B. Four Characteristics of Big Data
further. Big data has four "V" characteristics: Volume, Variety,
Velocity, and the most important Value[3]. Volume: Large

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data starting unit of measurement is at least P (1000 T), E (1 information perception is everywhere. The amount of
million T) or Z (1 billion T). Variety: The types of Big data information is enormous, but at the same time the problem of
including web logs, audio, video, pictures, location low value density has been created. It is a difficult problem,
information, multi-type of data have a higher requirement for how to complete the extraction of valuable data more quickly
the processing ability of data. Velocity: This is the most through a powerful machine algorithm. Value, is the ultimate
significant difference between Big Data and traditional data significance of Big Data üühow to gain insight and value.
mining. Velocity can be understood as faster to meet real- The explanation of four "V" characteristics please see last
time requirements, Big data era is more and more focus on page of this document of Fig. 1.
real-time data. Value: With the wide use of Internet of things,

Figure 1. Four V characteristics of Big Data

massive data mining and use, indicates a new wave of

III. IMPACT OF BIG DATA ON ELECTRIC POWER productivity growth and the arrival of the wave of consumer
INDUSTRY surplus.ʾIn the information network oriented society, from
With the rapid development of our life, the way of the scientific and technological research to the people's
obtaining the data is varied.Existing technical architecture health insurance, from the financial industry to the Internet
and route, has been unable to effectively deal with such a industry, the growth of the data volume of each industry is
large amount of data.It will be useless,that the information is explosive.According to incomplete statistics, the United
put into the collection of huge human and material resources States has 15 large companies have a large number of
but there is no timely and effective information processing.It industry data, which has accounted for the vast majority in
can be said that a new challenges is be put forward on human the 17 industry.It is no exaggeration to say that the amount of
data control capabilities in the Big Data Era.A more data that the United States has on Library of Congress is far
profound and comprehensive insight into the ability is be less than the average of the 15 industries.
required.An unprecedented space and potential is also be Many famous consulting experts predict Big Data
provided. analysis and big data mining, will change every industry's
business functions in the next 10 years[5].For example, in
A. Big Data Decision-making will Become a New Way of the survey and design industry, enterprise product life cycle
Decision Making management will use the IT system, including computer
This will be an unprecedented decision making method, aided design, engineering, product development and
that the management of the enterprise from a large number management tools and archiving query tools, designers can
of data to obtain the value of the need, and analysis of the build a product life-cycle management platform PLM
data leading decision. This decision-making method is (Product Life-cycle Management), which will be a variety of
driving the new orientation of human information systems and the various stages of data integration together,
management standards [4].With the large data analysis and together for the new products and services.In transportation,
predictive analysis of the influence of the management energy, services and other industries, and even in the field of
decision-making gradually increased, the existing decision- news media, also in the development of large data as an
making situation will be completely changed. opportunity to accelerate the depth of these industries and
1˅" Big data application" to promote the integration of information technology integration.
information technology and the depth of the industry. 2 ˅Big data development to promote new technologies
The first to put forward the Big Data Era is the world's and new applications continue to emerge
leading consulting firm mckinsey. He sad: ʾ Data, has With the rapid development of large data, people's daily
penetrated into today's every industry and business functions, life on the application of big data is also increasingly evident,
has become an important factor in production. People for which is the source of the new technology development of
large data.Through the big data and the people live the depth

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of integration, the original application simply rely on human impact. For example, for the management of equipment,
judgment,people's work would also be simplified through a users can effectively use big data to improve and standardize
computer system for data analysis and data mining function, the management of equipment.
and can improve the accuracy and efficiency of the work, or With the development of Big Data, the management will
even be replaced by means of information. use real-time data transmission equipment, may collect all
A suitable set of data in the data collection, perhaps the time, various locations, various types of a series of data,
people will not have important applications, but in another so that each device into a real-time management
seemingly unrelated areas, through the analysis of Big Data system[7].At the same time, the real-time data acquisition
mining may get unexpected results.With this innovative Big will provide reference data for comprehensive development
Data applications, the energy of the information data will be and repair, through the analysis of historical data, to predict
amplified, the arrival of the era of big data may be a the importance of equipment and the service life, reduce the
landmark change in people's lives. serious accident caused by sudden damage of the important
parts.
B. Impact of Big Data Era on the Electric Power Industry
2˅Big Data platform model of electric power industry
1 ˅ Impact of Big Data on electric power industry The power industry can use the characteristics of big data
decision and management to improve the following functions: information data
For the decision-making layer of the enterprise, the management of power plant equipment, real time production
development of large data is of great significance. Now the information monitoring and application in power plant
big industry depends on the development of information (including fault diagnosis and condition based
network, through the big data decision-making system for maintenance),technical upgrading and improvement, visual
enterprises in the past and present data analysis, predict the query, personnel simulation training,etc.[8].Through the Big
future[6]. The comparison of the data integration, internal Data and other technologies to achieve the historical data and
and external, the characteristics of big data, i.e. between production data online collection and distribution. Power
regions, industries and enterprises sector coverage and plant inspection personnel can be automatically or manually
penetration, formed the basis for decisions nonlinear, enter the power plant site real-time data through GPS and
other tools, which can be dispersed in the power plant
uncertainty oriented, bottom-up. This new type of decision- operating data, production data, fault diagnosis data and
making is to subvert the traditional, linear, top-down status of the maintenance of the collection. Through the big
decision-making model of the elite. However, it should also data technology will power plant production information of
be noted that once we have encountered errors and false data, the historical data and real-time data management and
the impact will be disastrous. The development of Big Data analysis, support the production of power industry.
for the management and grassroots also have a profound

Figure 2. Big Data platform model of electric power industry

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 In the nuclear power survey and design industry, Big in the conditions and to ensure the safety of data.In the
Data can be applied to nuclear power conventional island information society, the protection of privacy security will be
experimental verification data,2D or 3D design, equipment the behavior of the whole society[11].Information, the
parameter index and usage trend forecast. In the design of network, the tool itself is not good or bad, it is important that
nuclear power conventional island, the simulation model can people how to use the tool, and the purpose of the big data.
be input to verify the data. In the 2D or 3D design of nuclear
power plant, various types of the results that calculated by V. EPILOGUE
the data model, professional simulation software can be input Harvard University sociology professor Gary Gold said:
into the big data platform. With the help of the effective "This is a revolution, huge data resources so that all areas has
result of big data, the survey data of nuclear power plant is began the process of the quantization, whether academic,
analyzed and processed. Technical support is provided to the business or government, will begin this process in all
nuclear power plant operation management personnel, fields."With the arrival of Big Data Era, Big Data may bring
through the technical level to improve the safety and the huge value is gradually being recognized.Through the
reliability of nuclear power plant operation. comprehensive perception, collection, analysis and sharing
In the power design industry, refinement, standardization of all kinds of data, we can find out the world and understand
and standardization of the software and hardware resource the new perspective of the world.At the same time based on
management can be achieved through the characteristics of the facts and data to make decisions, the way of thinking will
Big Data. For software resources, the operation behavior of be changed. Great changes will be brought to the entire
each user can be collected, summarized, analyzed and power industry, the information network and even the whole
summarized. Sort out all kinds of data: such as the frequency society.
of use of professional software, the length of time, etc..
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