India Power Corporation transforming itself into a smart utility
By MYBRANDBOOK
Sanjeev Sinha
President – IT & Digitization
India Power Corporation
Key Priorities of 2020
India Power Corporation Ltd. (IPCL) introduced several digital initiatives last year like implementation of IoT, Smart Meters etc. and worked towards creating a data repository for all data generated so that using various applications, benefits could be passed on to the stakeholders which are consumers and its own self. The initiatives have been well accepted.
However, these implementations were done on only a small section of the grid. Hence, key priority for 2020 would be to roll out the successful implementations to the rest of the grid. The scalability of the implementation would be the key area to handle. The objective is to extend it to more consumers and more stakeholders.
Cyber Security
Being a power company, we come under the purview of Critical Information Infrastructure of the country. Section 70 of IT Act 2000 recognizes energy as one of the critical sectors. Hence, the responsibility of taking care of security of our network is of prime importance to us.
While we have most often focused on security of IT, OT has often been the relatively neglected area and can be the weak point for most hackers. Hence, as we head into 2020, we plan to bring OT too under security measures. We plan to conduct IT – OT Security review and ensure that we develop Cyber Security Crisis Management Plan (CCMP) as per NCIIPC and MeitY guidelines.
Achieving Digitalization
In line with Digital India initiatives, we have focussed on making India Power a smart utility and it has become so to a large extent.
It started with our customers where we switched from old analog meters to smart meters. To have better control over our network, we have implemented SCADA (Supervisory control and data acquisition) in our distribution business. To monitor its distribution transformers, IPCL installed smart meters and IOT devices which send data to the cloud so that engineers can see the parameters almost at real time.
This has reduced outages significantly thus benefitting our customers. IPCL is climbing up the maturity ladder to handle its data more efficiently. Going forward, customers will get SMS of any outage and get their power usage patterns on their mobile phones. We at IPCL are digitally linking the entire network from feeder to customer. Customers have a portal and mobile app to see their information and even make payment. This has been extended to even industrial customers today.
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