On March 13, at the "2025 Symposium on Hydropower Innovation Under the Dual-Carbon Goal" hosted by the Technology Transfer Center of North China Electric Power University and other institutions, Luculent delivered a keynote titled "Practices in Smart Hydropower Development Under Digital Transformation", systematically showcasing its upgraded full lifecycle smart hydropower solution for the first time. This offering provides innovative ideas and practical models for the industry’s digital and intelligent transformation.

Attendees included representatives from leading energy enterprises such as State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC), China Energy Group, CNNC, China Huaneng, China Datang, Three Gorges Group, and State Grid.

No. 1: Tackling Industry Pain Points, Empowering a New Era of Hydropower Intelligence

As a key clean energy source, hydropower’s flexibility is critical to stabilizing new power systems. However, traditional hydropower faces challenges:

• Lack of data-driven decision-making for group-level management.

• Over-reliance on manual experience for equipment maintenance.

• Difficulty in dynamic risk prediction for safety hazards.

• Inefficient multi-regional collaboration across stakeholders.

To address these issues, Luculent has built a domestic, self-developed technology foundation and launched an upgraded smart hydropower solution covering six core scenarios:

• Smart Engineering | Smart Dam Management | Smart Operations

• Smart Maintenance | Smart Safety | Data Governance

This solution shifts enterprises from traditional ERP systems to data-driven intelligent decision-making, transforming maintenance from fragmented practices to "monitoring-diagnosis-action" closed-loop intelligence, significantly reducing risks and costs.

No. 2: Full-Scenario Closed-Loop Empowerment for Safer, Smarter Hydropower

1. Integrated Investment-Construction-Operation: Solving Fragmented Project Management
Hydropower projects involve complex collaboration across planning, construction, and operations, often plagued by data silos and disconnects.

Luculent’s integrated platform leverages AI, BIM, and IoT to enable full lifecycle digital control, breaking down barriers between stakeholders (owners, designers, contractors, etc.). Key features include:

• Real-time cross-regional collaboration.

• Dynamic tracking of progress, costs, and quality risks.

• Data-driven workflows supporting dam monitoring and smart operations post-handover.

2. Smart Dam Management: From Reactive to Proactive Defense
Dam safety is the lifeline of hydropower. Traditional fixed-threshold monitoring struggles with extreme conditions.

Luculent’s solution redefines dam management with "pan-sensing networks + AI decision engines":

• Deploys sensors for real-time data on rainfall, stress, displacement, etc.

• Combines mechanism models and AI algorithms to dynamically calculate safety thresholds, enabling minute-level alerts for risks like leaks or displacement.

• LSTM-based inflow prediction optimizes water level control and flood discharge strategies, maximizing economic value while ensuring safety.

3. Intelligent Monitoring: Eliminating Operational Blind Spots
"Monitoring dozens of screens and thousands of parameters leads to fatigue and errors."

Luculent’s two-tier smart monitoring platform (group control + plant-level) replaces "human vigilance" with AI pre-judgment:

• At the group control center: Optimizes load distribution and unit operations via real-time hydrological and unit status analysis.

• At plants: Establishes dynamic thresholds for vibration, temperature, etc., enabling early anomaly detection.

• Automatically diagnoses root causes and suggests fixes when parameters exceed limits.

Four Intelligent Hubs ensure end-to-end risk control:

• Data anomaly detection → Risk identification → Optimization analysis → Action guidance.

• Seamless integration with work orders and periodic tasks for closed-loop risk resolution.

4. Cross-Module Synergy for Full-Scenario Empowerment

• Smart Maintenance: Uses vibration analysis, acoustic sensing, and health evaluations to shift from periodic to predictive maintenance.

• Smart Safety: Integrates personnel positioning, e-fencing, and risk databases for real-time oversight of "human-machine-environment-management."

• Data Governance: Unifies standards per national guidelines, breaking down silos for high-quality decision-making.

"These modules are interconnected through a platform architecture, enabling full-scenario smart management from engineering to operations, maintenance, and safety," emphasized Luculent experts.

Driving Industry Leadership with Self-Developed Innovation

Built on domestic, controllable technologies, Luculent’s solution has been deployed by industry leaders like SPIC, China Energy, and China Yangtze Power, helping them reduce risks, improve efficiency, and unlock new value. Moving forward, Luculent will continue to reshape hydropower’s role in the energy transition, fueling innovation for the Dual-Carbon Era.

Empowering Hydropower’s Future—Intelligently.