CSG Constructs its First 5G Wireless Network for Smart Converter Station

Guangzhou - China Southern Power Grid's first 5G wireless network for smart converter stations has been established … adding another powerful tool for the main grid's safe and stable electrical operations.
To realize CSG’s digitalization and smart grid business plan, the EHV Power Transmission Company, which has previously cooperated with DGRI, China Telecom Guangdong and Huawei in constructing the project, has created and developed a tailor-made network of “no data leakage and no business interruption”.
Video call and talkback services have undergone rigorous testing at EHV company’s Dongfang Converter Station, heralding the completion of CSG's first 5G wireless network - offering the highest levels of reliability and quality.
The large, closed LAN at the EHV Converter Station requires the highest levels of network safety and business reliability so that no data will be accessible outside of the industrial park and no interruptions in electrical energy supply can be detected - even in extreme environmental conditions or on-line use circumstances where connections to the carrier network can be found.
To this end, EHV Company has adopted its highly reliable and designed  5G network and builds 5G-only base stations and UPFs customized for grids in its business areas. The Company also utilizes a tailored light 5G core network in the converter station based on business needs so that EHV Company services can continue inside the station even in special periods if the proprietary network loses connection to the public network.
EHV Company engineers are expected to speed up research into merging the 5G network and grid communication network with the goal of increasing the ability to integrate the network and data by testing and applying the immediate collection of data and mobile operation services.