Sensors are increasingly used in smart grids

In the future, the integration of digitization, informationization, and Internet of Things technologies will drive the development of sensors toward intelligence. As sensor manufacturing costs decrease, the market's requirements for sensor functions are becoming more comprehensive and specialized, and sensor intelligence will also be popularized and applied.

In people's consciousness, sensors are widely used in the fields of automotive, industrial automation, aerospace technology, military engineering, and environmental detection, and few are involved in the field of power.

Today, not only can sensors be found in the field of smart grids, but smart grids are also expected to become the largest users of sensors.

Most of the costs required to establish a smart grid are spent on the terminal power distribution system and the terminal information system of the smart grid on power facilities, and the construction of network security software and hardware. A large part will be invested in sensor networks, which directly drives the sensor market. At the same time, in order to meet the needs of the construction of smart grids, sensors are also developing in the direction of intelligence, systematization, networking, and digitalization.

Smart sensor is a sensor with information processing function, with a microprocessor, with the ability to collect, process, and exchange information. It is the product of the integration of the sensor and the microprocessor. Like many intelligent systems, the smart grid is not a single individual, but a product of the combined effects of many equipment and technologies. The sensor devices on the front line are small, but they are absolutely important. In the development of smart grids, the use of traditional sensors has made it impossible to quickly and directly measure and monitor online the quality and fault location of certain power products. The use of smart sensors can directly measure product quality indicators and faults (such as temperature, pressure, flow). For example, in order to meet the development needs of smart grids, China has introduced a fiber-optic current sensing system, which implements a fully digital closed-loop control of pipeline current sensing systems. Precision measurement requirements.

At present, smart sensors have become the hotspot and frontier of sensor research in the world. Vigorously developing the research of intelligent sensors, the leapfrog development thinking that should be adopted is the key measure to occupy the commanding heights of future information technology. In the future, the integration of digitization, informationization, and Internet of Things technologies will drive the development of sensors toward intelligence. As sensor manufacturing costs decrease, the market's requirements for sensor functions are becoming more comprehensive and specialized, and sensor intelligence will also be popularized and applied.