Intelligent Heating Network Construction Based on Cloud Platform

One Center Two Platforms

      The information development of each industry follows the development rule of "automation", "digital" and "intelligent". With the development of network information technology, the control technology of thermal industry has entered the "intelligent" stage, the single monitoring system cannot satisfy the heat industry scheduling production demand. Therefore, in addition to the monitoring system, "intelligent thermal network" has a number of support systems, includes: Command and dispatch system, climate model system, operation analysis system, energy consumption management system, geographic information system, hydraulic computing system, the whole network balance system. These systems are interconnected and built on the same platform to achieve integrated resource sharing patterns.

      Cloud computing platform has been rapidly developed and practiced in recent years, and it is the time to take on the role of "intelligent heat network" platform.

      Cloud computing platform is a kind of technology which takes the network as the carrier, through virtualization technology, virtualizes the computing devices, the network devices, the storage devices and builds into a unified resource pool to provide the service for the group of companies and individuals, and realizes the centralized resource management and dispatch. In this mode, all kinds of resources can achieve the horizontal and unlimited expansion, and resources can be obtained at any time, can be distributed according to the actual usage.

The Application of Cloud Computing Platform in Intelligent Heat Network System

                   A case of intelligent thermal network construction based on cloud platform

     In 2016, our company undertook the construction of intelligent thermal network based on Cloud platform in Datong, and adopted the "B-Cloud" Cloud platform architecture of Bei Ming Software Company. The platform is composed of three control nodes, six computing nodes and three replica fault-tolerant mechanisms, realizes distributed dynamic resource allocation and management, global resource load balancing, network and storage virtualization, virtual firewall, fault migration, high availability dynamic resource scheduling and other platform functions.

      Software that has been set up on the platform: PVSS heat network monitoring system, total network balance optimization control system, heat network command scheduling system, thermal network energy consumption analysis system, geographic information system, meter reading system. The mutual cooperation and underlying data sharing of each system are realized. The cold/heat transfer technology was adopted, the failure of any physical server, will not affect the operation of the system. Software to be built in the future: Intelligent reporting system, heating billing management system, customer service system and mobile APP terminal system.

         Datong heating company has 10 heating branches, 1 maintenance repair branch and 4 customer service centers. The company has laid the primary pipe network of 844 kilometers, installed 396 thermal stations and a heating area of 54m square meters.

The construction of intelligent heat network in Datong city - PVSS thermal network monitoring system