Please note that the Technical Webinar: Digitalize Electrification- The revolution of Low Voltage Industry will be held on Tuesday, 19 Jan 2021 from 6:30pm to 7:30pm via Zoom (online video conference).The event is free of charge. Registration is required. The number of participants is limited to 500. Applications will be accepted on a first-come first–served basis. Priority will be given to members of EL Division. For details, please visit the following website: http://el.hkie.org.hk//Upload/Doc/d96dcbf8-27cd-4e48-a4eb-15fe7e713297_HKIE_Technical%20Seminar_Jan%202021_Poster_KW.pdf For registration, please register online at https://forms.gle/JDKLDV3MW7o6QakD6
The deadline for registration is 12 Jan 2021. Successful applicants will be notified separately. For enquiries, please send email to programme.hkie.eldiv@gmail.com.
Electrical Division Committee
Report Despite remarkable effort on digital transformation has been put on different industries, Hong Kong, as a place with one of the most reliable energy supplies in the world, still found itself to be lagging behind in the low voltage industry development. To foster such revolution in the energy sector, HKIE Electrical Division organized the Technical Webinar about the revolutionizing the low voltage industry on 19 Jan 2021. Mr. Keith Wong, the Head of Digital Business, Smart Infrastructure of Siemens HK, who is leading the team in digital implementations in power industry, including Reliability Centered Asset Management for asset health calculation and residual life estimation, was invited to share his views on how to innovate for a greener and smarter energy sector in Hong Kong.As an introduction, Keith briefly outlined the trend of low voltage power distribution and revealed the importance of digitalization to ensure a reliable and efficient power supply by going through energy optimization and the analysis of energy data. Diving into the revolution of low voltage breakers from a thermal-magnetic protection device to a smart component, he explained such innovations will not only empower customers to connect and monitor assets with the aid of cloud computing, making measurement, visualization, evaluation, and control of data possible, but also promote transparency, availability, and efficiency throughout the process. As a key enabler for the digital transformation, Keith pointed out an open IoT cloud operating system is paramount. By generating actionable insights via data analytics, the platform also helps inventing new business models to transform and optimize the process. Keith also shared the latest communication standard and available cyber security measures to ensure the security connection and interoperability between the IoT devices and cloud applications.
The session was wrapped up with a glance at the future of “The Digitalization of Electrification” and a Q&A session. The webinar attracted over 350 participates from members of electrical and energy related disciplines, it undoubtedly gathered the experts in the field to exchange valuable insights to tap the potential of IoT and cloud computing while fostering the digital revolution of electrification.