Remote Inspection of Automatically Delimited Working Areas at Distribution Level (Use Case #2)

The second demonstrator of the Smart5Grid aims to enhance the safety procedures for maintenance workers in HV primary power substations making use of real-time information collected from advanced tracking cameras and wearable sensors. Specifically, this use-case will demonstrate the capabilities of the developed Smart5Grid platform and of the Network Application for the remote inspection of automatically delimited working areas at distribution grid level through the deployment of a private 5G network. The developed Network Application (i) it will automatically create 3D models which delimitate the working areas of the authorized personnel, (ii) it will permit the real-time communication of big data generated from the existing mobile sensors that are worn by the workers (tags) and anchor permanent sensors and other manual sensors, as well as from cameras within the working area, (iii) it will allow the real-time remote tracking of the work and it will capture the movements of the different operators (authorized and non-authorized) as well as their working tools, and (iv) it will provide instant warning signals and alerts. It is expected that the developed 5G private network shall support peak data rate of 10 Gbps.

Demonstration setup:

 The Remote Inspection of Automatically Delimited Working Areas at Distribution Level use case will be performed in a rural Spanish primary substation 66kV (inside Garraf Naural Park in Barcelona) with open air busbars. A MEC platform will be deployed in the primary substation with virtualization capabilities. This cluster will support a virtualized mobile core network, like e.g., virtual 5G Core, depending on the selected 5G deployment mode, and the virtualized Machine Learning (ML) inferences models that will be developed to support this use case.