Instrumentation industry enters new development time

It is reported that in January 2010, the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine announced the results of national supervision and spot checks on the quality of single-phase energy meter products of 59 enterprises in 20 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government. The results of random inspections showed that Henan Xintian Technology Co., Ltd. and Henan Xuji Instrument Co., Ltd., two home appliance watch manufacturing enterprises in Henan Province, successfully passed sampling inspections and met the requirements of national sampling inspection related regulations and standards. This indicates that the development of the instrumentation industry in Henan province has entered a new development period and has laid a solid foundation for the new leap to be achieved in the new year.

As we all know, a single-phase energy meter is a nationally-administered measurement instrument, which is mainly used for the measurement of electricity consumption of residents. The quality of the meter is closely related to the interests of the people. China's electric energy meters have a wide variety of uses. Most of them have been retrofitted with more advanced smart meters in the cities, and more rural areas are still using mechanical watches. Mechanical meters are not as easy to use and manage as smart meters. There are many electric energy meters on the market that are known as smart meters. They are all relative to traditional mechanical energy meters. But what kind of functions are smart meters? The answer is not uniform.

Taking Henan Xintian Technology Co., Ltd. as an example, the single-phase energy meter produced by the company uses a non-contact IC card as the medium. The user holds the IC card to manage the department to recharge the power fee. The user can intuitively see the purchase amount and the power consumption. When the remaining power is insufficient, it has the function of reminding recharging. After the power in the table runs out, it will automatically power off. In this way, not only the manpower, material resources, and financial resources consumed by the manual meter reading in the power sector are solved, but also the problems that have plagued the management departments for many years, such as “difficulty charging and hard charging” are solved. At the same time, the user's electricity purchasing information is subject to computer management, which facilitates inquiries, statistics, charges, and printing of bills.

Due to the current low demand for smart meters in domestic power grids and the predominance of local government in meter procurement, sales of smart meters in the domestic market have not yet reached the scale. In early 2010, the national smart grid specific construction plan and standard system will also be announced. It will focus on the smart grid planning work and pilot work. In the coming years, the widespread promotion of smart meters will become an inevitable trend. Driven by the smart grid, it is expected that China needs to update the demand for smart meters of about 30 million to 50 million pieces. The performance of smart meter manufacturers will grow rapidly.

At the same time, with the continuous improvement of people’s living standards and the continuous development of science and technology, people’s functional requirements for smart meters will not stop at the basic functions of prepayment, accurate measurement, and data statistics. We expect the emergence of highly intelligent energy meters. We can bring us into a new intelligent living space: after a family installs a smart meter, the smart meter will automatically read all the electrical information used by the family, enabling data communication and real-time communication between the meter and the appliance. Information exchange. After the smart meters and home appliances are interconnected, two-way information exchange will occur. The smart meters will automatically read the power consumption information of each appliance first, and then the read information will be transmitted to the substation, and the substation will continue to transmit the information to the power company's data. Communication center. The information between the power company and the electricity-consuming household is also in two-way communication. After the power company has grasped the power usage of the end-user, the power company takes actions according to the situation between the power supply and demand, and makes appropriate adjustments. For example, at peak load, at a certain point in the summer, if the power usage reaches its peak, the power grid becomes overwhelmed. In this case, the power company's household electricity data information transmitted through the smart meter can automatically The temperature of the air conditioners used in various homes automatically rises by 2 to 3°C, which causes some very clever changes in the load of the power grid. With such a smart meter and a smart grid, the power supply department will have a great deal of autonomy and flexibility and be able to make adjustments at any time depending on the demand and availability of electricity. Compared with power companies adopting blackouts, it is clear that such adjustments are more reasonable.

Of course, these are just some of our ideas for the future of smart meters. There are many market competitors in the smart meter industry, marketing investment is relatively large, and the construction of a marketing network is very important. This is a golden opportunity for Henan's instrumentation companies, and it is also a huge challenge.

For this reason, in the past year, under the strong support of the provincial government and leaders, the Zhengzhou National Intelligent Instrumentation High-tech Industrialization Base has been officially recognized by the Ministry of Science and Technology and settled in Zhengzhou Hi-tech Development Zone. The instrumentation industry is a capital and technology-intensive industry. Its level of development is an important indicator of the degree of industrial modernization. This is also the first state-level instrumentation industrialization base in Henan. This year, the “Smart Metering Engineering Technology Research Center” officially settled in Henan Xintian Technology Co., Ltd. and became the only smart metering engineering technology research center in the industry.

The rapid development of product technology has a high demand for product development. Henan, as a large province with a large population, is located in the Central Plains. To speed up the overall development of the high-tech industry of smart instrumentation, we must actively invest in and develop smart grid development. Planning work, formulate technical and governance standards, carry out hub technology research and development and equipment development, carry out pilot work in all aspects, and make strenuous contributions to the development of the instrumentation industry in our province!