The incorporation of technological tools in all our work and even vital processes is a fact. The possibilities offered by digitalization allow us to maximize our resources for good purposes, such as the conservation of our fauna or maximizing our time and resources.
Among these new media, artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly playing a leading role in all spheres of our lives, which is why its development has intensified to transform increasingly efficient processes and operations.
Within this framework, the I Andalusian Congress of Artificial Intelligence was held on November 22 and 23 at the Granada Conference Center. This first edition examines the collaboration of different entities with artificial intelligence and explores the latest trends and needs in this field with the help of renowned experts.
The I Andalusian Congress of Artificial Intelligence explored the latest trends and featured experts
Indra’s digital transformation company, Minsait, was one of the companies present at this event. His case of successful application of artificial intelligence gave rise to the talk ‘AI applied to the protection of Birds in wind farms’, directed by the Director of Energy and Utilities of Minsait, Carlos Vivas. Likewise, the Energy Director of Minsait, Beatriz Batanero, participated in the debate table ‘The energy of the future’ along with other large companies. In addition, the company had a stand where small demos were made that refer to Plain Language, People Tracking and Generative AI.
Care of our environment
Although it may seem unlikely, we can use artificial intelligence to improve the sustainability and environmental viability indexes of wind farms and thus preserve birdlife, particularly endangered species. Carlos Vivas explained that Minsait’s solution allows the wind turbines to be stopped and reduce the number of impacts of specimens on the wind fields.
The 3D radar detects the presence of birds, tracks routes, warns that they are going to collide with a windmill, sends a signal and stops the rotation of the blades in real time. This solution offered by Minsait addresses the need to comply with legislation on sustainability, specifically, the Natural Heritage and Biodiversity Law and the Environmental Assessment Law. Thus, they have 3D radar and artificial vision technology, carry out a forensic analysis and use algorithms to care for and preserve the species.
Solutions for the energy field
Innovative projects in the utilities sector in relation to public services are already a reality. Beatriz Batanero specified that artificial intelligence allows companies to control asset management. Operations monitoring notifies if the temperature of certain components rises or if there are sparks in a transformation center and monitors the perimeter security of the facilities, among many other applications.
Innovation with AI impacts citizens and professional sectors.
In addition, AI makes it possible to develop utility-focused projects that forecast demand and the behavior of energy prices and facilitate production planning, among other advantages. Likewise, AI already offers solutions to respond to the expected increase in electricity demand and thus ensure the capacity and quality of electrical distribution. In short, process automation allows professionals to dedicate themselves to higher-value tasks. Making use of artificial intelligence makes it easier to audit and monitor communications, allows you to know customers’ interests precisely and guarantee responses to their needs more effectively.
Present and future of applications with AI
Minsait works with the purpose of using artificial intelligence so that utilities can improve the predictive maintenance of their assets and reduce their costs, which generates a very direct and positive impact on the companies themselves. For example, this company has designed a project to predict meteorological events and to anticipate them, prepare the equipment and prevent them from affecting the transformation centers. Another line of activity is the improvement in employee safety thanks to image recognition, which allows monitoring the use of personal protective equipment, the dangerous interaction between individuals and machines and the detection of any event that may pose a risk.
Artificial intelligence records other successes such as a 16% improvement in the accuracy of price forecasting in complementary markets thanks to the introduction of new variables and the set of several intelligently weighted algorithms. It also reduces the deviation of the predictions in the demand forecast, makes the customer portfolio more flexible through the analysis of 20,000 of them, predicts the price of gas daily and even 33 interruptions of medium severity and five of high severity were predicted. cause of meteorological phenomena.
Artificial intelligence improves the accuracy of price forecasting in complementary markets by 16%
Within the framework of utilities, two technologies can be developed in the future, such as federated learning and quantum computing. The latter allows us to handle a lot of information and process large amounts of data that are very relevant to energy markets. Likewise, to adjust the predictions, Minsait has simulated the hardware conditions of a quantum computer to work with a price prediction algorithm that optimizes energy trading, another example of the immense capacity of artificial intelligence to find rigorous solutions that improve Our services and the environment in which we live.
Minsait collaborates with the Andalusian scientific community through different initiatives in universities such as Granada, Malaga or Seville; and accompanies the Government of Andalusia and the Digital Agency in their Andalusian Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2030, carrying out projects that promote its responsible and ethical use.
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