SNET Systems Participates in Hyosung Heavy Industries and Cisco's "Next-Generation Digital Substation Technology Verification"

On July 16, AI infrastructure specialist SNET Systems announced that it has demonstrated its capabilities in building power communication infrastructure by participating in a next-generation digital substation technology verification project jointly promoted by Hyosung Heavy Industries and Cisco.

Recently, the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence data centers (AIDC) has driven up power demand, while the rise of renewable energy and distributed energy resources (DER) is accelerating the transformation of power grid operations. As a result, the importance of communication infrastructure design that can reliably interconnect power equipment and networks and handle large-scale real-time data has been increasing.

This project was designed to verify whether Hyosung Heavy Industries' digital substation power equipment and Cisco's industrial network can be stably integrated in real-world operational environments. In particular, the project focused on ensuring that large-scale, real-time data generated by power equipment could be transmitted reliably, without delays or losses, even under conditions of high network load.

Within the project, Hyosung Heavy Industries provided digital substation power equipment, while Cisco supplied industrial network technology. SNET Systems was responsible for designing and building the entire communication architecture connecting the power equipment to the network, and Senion contributed by supplying verification scenarios that reflected actual substation environments, increasing the practical applicability of the project.

During the verification process, SNET Systems designed and implemented a communication architecture connecting Hyosung Heavy Industries' intelligent merging unit with Cisco's industrial network. SNET Systems also established a communication environment similar to a real substation to validate the stable transmission of power data, further demonstrating its capabilities in communication infrastructure design and implementation.

The company noted that this project serves as evidence of its technological strength in the integrated construction of power facilities and industrial networks, and expects that it will serve as a springboard to enhance its competitiveness in the fields of digital power grids and next-generation power infrastructure.

Dongchan Park, Executive Vice President of the AIoT Business Division at SNET Systems, stated, "With the expansion of renewable energy and distributed energy resources, the digital transformation of the power industry is now in full swing, and the key is not just technology itself, but how effectively field operations and technology can be interconnected. Based on our experience operating power facilities and our communication infrastructure competence, we will strengthen the connectivity between power equipment and IT systems and help lay the foundation for the stable operation of digital power grids."

Through the next-generation digital substation technology verification project, SNET Systems has demonstrated its prowess in communication infrastructure that connects power equipment with industrial networks, and plans to accelerate its entry into the digital power grid market.

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