Recently, Luculent has been selected into the Smart Power Plant Construction Industry Map by virtue of its full-stack industrial AI capabilities and integrated platform capabilities.
Hailed as a recognized "compass" for industrial development, the map is jointly compiled by multiple institutions including the Technology Transfer Center of North China Electric Power University, the Alumni Association of North China Electric Power University, and Zhongguancun Huadian Energy and Power Industry Alliance. It provides a systematic knowledge framework and implementation roadmap for the digital and intelligent transformation of power generation enterprises.
Rooted in the fundamentals of industry, focused on the energy sector, and targeting core scenarios to solve real pain points, Luculent relies on its full-stack cloud-edge collaborative technology system integrating "software-hardware-AI" to independently develop a complete portfolio of industrial intelligent products and integrated solutions. It bridges the "last mile" for the application of industrial AI technologies in power and energy scenarios, making technologies visible, accessible and effective in a timely manner.
Infrastructure Layer – The "Expressway Network" of AI
Infrastructure serves as the foundation of smart power plants, as well as the underlying channel for data flow, computing power support and application operation.
At present, power plant data generally suffers from problems such as silos, fragmentation and uneven quality, which directly lead to inaccurate and impractical AI models.
By deploying intelligent hardware including Sunshine wireless sensors and vibration data collectors, Luculent breaks down data barriers across the entire process of power production. Through real-time collection, full-domain monitoring and intelligent analysis, it transforms originally dormant and scattered data into core green assets that are auditable, verifiable, operable and value-added, laying a solid foundation for subsequent intelligent upgrading.
Technology Platform Layer – The "Brain" of AI
The platform acts as the central nervous system of smart power plants, determining management efficiency, collaboration capabilities and future scalability.Luculent deeply integrates cutting-edge technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data and artificial intelligence to build a group-level "Industrial Intelligence Hub" – a cloud-edge collaborative industrial internet platform for the intelligent management of power plant clusters. It enables true integration of cloud, edge and terminals, supporting real-time equipment status awareness, lean full-life-cycle asset management, and intelligent optimization of production operations.
The platform features three pioneering strengths:
It connects three-level management and control, realizing data connectivity and application deployment from "group – region – station" to ensure the group has clear visibility, smooth management and effective control.
It facilitates co-creation and implementation of models, enabling rapid sharing of superior algorithms and experiential models to form an efficient closed loop of "detection at one point, early warning across the network, and collaborative governance throughout the domain".
It ensures simple and efficient implementation, with online and standardized terminal management and application deployment throughout the process, greatly reducing on-site workload and forging an industrial intelligent operating system foundation that is easy to deploy, expand and replicate.
The "group coordination, cloud-edge collaboration" model avoids redundant construction with low investment and fast results. In the GD Power Development project, it achieved full-chain digital penetration from the group headquarters to 12 power plants and 37 generating units, reaching an internationally advanced technical level with remarkable economic and management benefits.
Application Layer – The "Value Interface" of AI
Industrial AI applications represent the ultimate goal of digital intelligence, and are the core embodiment of directly creating value, reducing costs and enhancing safety for power plants. Focusing on the most critical and in-demand scenarios of power plants, Luculent has developed mature AI+ intelligent applications including smart engineering, intelligent equipment diagnosis, smart monitoring, safe production and smart operation.
AI Predictive Maintenance
Centered on the full-life-cycle health of equipment, this application integrates multi-dimensional data such as vibration, temperature, electric current and historical defects to perceive hidden dangers in advance and identify anomalies accurately. It drives maintenance from "fixed-interval maintenance" to "condition-based and predictive maintenance". By automatically identifying defects, recommending solutions and generating work orders, it reduces unplanned downtime and maintenance costs, making equipment safer and more durable.
Smart Monitoring
It upgrades AI from a passive "dashboard" to an active "operator", converting decades of experience from senior technicians into a knowledge base. Every diagnosis, optimization and maintenance becomes "fuel" for AI self-learning and continuous iteration. AI undertakes repetitive operation and maintenance tasks as well as intelligent decision-making, with an early warning accuracy rate of over 95% and releasing more than 30% of operation and maintenance manpower. Saved electricity equals profit, and reduced carbon emissions equal assets, making green transformation visible, quantifiable and rewarding.
Safe Production
Empowered by AI, it implements penetrating safety supervision and builds a full-coverage, full-process and full-element safety management and control system. Through intelligent inspection, robot patrols and video AI recognition, it achieves early warning of violations, early detection of hidden dangers, strict risk control and traceable closed-loop management, comprehensively improving the intrinsic safety level of power plants.
These practically implementable and measurable achievements fully demonstrate Luculent's comprehensive capabilities of understanding the power industry, mastering AI technologies and focusing on actual effects, which are also key reasons for its successful inclusion in the industry map.
At present, Luculent's smart power plant solutions have been applied on a large scale to various forms of power generation including hydropower, thermal power, new energy, gas power and integrated energy. It has joined hands with leading enterprises such as SPIC Zhijin, Inner Mongolia Energy Intelligence Maintenance, CHN Energy Dadu River and Everbright Environment to build "lighthouse projects", empowering the intelligent upgrading of power plants in all aspects from production, operation and maintenance, safety to management.
Those who plow deep go far; those who stay pragmatic achieve success. Luculent looks forward to embracing the new future of AI+Energy with you!
