- KT's Smart Energy Platform Assists Uzbekistan's 8 Million
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- Korean Telecom Leader Seeks to Expand Business into
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SEOUL, South Korea,
Aug. 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- KT
Corporation (KRX: 030200; NYSE: KT), South Korea's largest telecommunications
company, has built a national data center to manage and remote
control electricity service for Uzbekistan's 8 million utility users, securing
a foothold for entering the Central Asian market.
The new data center's opening ceremony was held in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, on August
20. The attendees included Umarov Olimdjon Muhamadjanovich,
advisor to the prime minister of Uzbekistan, Sultanov Alisher Saidabbasovich,
Minister of Energy, Lee Han-Sup, KT's senior vice president, and
representatives of Regional Electrical Power Networks (REPN) and
energy enterprises.
"KT's Uzbekistan project is
part of the global business expansion of its AMI (Advanced Metering
Infrastructure) Energy Platform and latest AI (Artificial
Intelligence) and Big Data-based technologies," said Park
Yoon-Young, president of KT's Enterprise Business
Group. "Following its success in Uzbekistan, KT plans to expand its smart
energy business to other nations across Central Asia."
KT was tasked with building a national integrated data center
and a centralized smart meter managing and remote controlling
platform to better manage power consumption and billing. The
platform is dubbed Centralized AMI Data Center. The data center is
capable of processing information from 8 million smart meters in
real time. Installation of the smart meters is targeted for
completion next year in 14 administrative divisions.
In Uzbekistan, manual reading
and control by visiting each household has caused the delay and
inaccuracy. It also resulted in a difficulty to forecast the
consumption of electricity in real time and prevent the
blackout.
"With Centralized AMI Data Center, we are now able to analyze
electricity usage and adopt a variety of pricing policy by
systematically handling the process from generation to
consumption," said former First Deputy Prime Minister for ICT
Development Umarov at the opening ceremony. "We are grateful for
assistance from KT, which has successfully carried out our new
national energy management project."
The national electricity data center, using KT's Centralized AMI
System (CAS), will enable state-run REPN to better monitor power
usage of its 8 million customers, improve the efficiency of
transmitting power, control electricity supply to customers'
payment status, and take swift action for the line loss on the
spot.
Artificial intelligence-based analyses of Big Data on smart
meters, amassed from the KT CAS platform, will introduce
time-of-use pricing, a measure designed to disperse on-peak demand
to off-peak hours. Users will also be able to monitor their power
consumption and billing at an online site in real time.
"The digital data storage process has enabled us to control
electricity trading and usage, and to design a wide range of
pricing policy," said Energy Minister Sultanov. "We have been
deeply impressed by the professionalism KT has demonstrated in
carrying out this project."
"In strategic partnership with KT, a top Korean business
enterprise, we have successfully built a Centralized AMI Data
Center," said Ulugbek Mustaev, chairman the board of REPN. "We look
forward to more energy business relationships with KT in
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and other CIS countries."
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KT Corp., Korea's largest telecommunications service provider,
reestablished in 1981 under the Telecommunications Business Act, is
leading the era of innovations in the world's most connected
country. The company is leading the 4th industrial
revolution with high speed wire/wireless network and new ICT
technology. KT launched the world's first nationwide commercial 5G
network on April 3, 2019, after
successfully showcasing the world's first trial 5G services at the
PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games in February
2018. This is another milestone in KT's continuous efforts
to deliver essential products and services as it aspires to be the
number one ICT Company and People's Company.
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