China’s carbon peak and neutrality goals were first announced by president Xi Jinping during the 76th United Nations General Assembly on September 21, 2021. The goals aim to highlight China’s intentions of achieving emission peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. This goal was also included in the 14th Five-Year Plan of China.
Under the goal of "carbon peak and carbon neutrality", coal industries now need to more urgently move towards a green and low-carbon transition. Moreover, it’s critical to improve the combination development of intelligent construction and industrial internet to meet the “carbon peak and carbon neutrality” goals. In such circumstances, China's coal industry is facing a variety of challenges but there are also emerging innovative applications, technologies that offer the sector with opportunities.
At present, a major issue the coal industry faces when connecting with the industrial internet is that the status of equipment and systems are not unified in a same set of operational systems. For telecommunication industries such as 3GPP, service providers and industrial organizations promote "unified standards and unified architecture". They facilitate service providers and equipment suppliers in regular operation, therefore achieving a win-win situation. However, the industrial internet covers a variety of industries and fields, resulting in a differentiated usage and process on data and operational logic. It is therefore difficult to unify in a short time.
The lack of industrial standards is also a big obstacle for intelligent development in the coal industry. The digitalization and intelligent development of the coal industry requires full connection, full perception and full intelligence. However, due to the lack of industrial standard in this area, various information systems from distinct enterprises can’t be connected with one another. Meanwhile, data isolation is another serious problem. Different functioning departments use different equipment and IT systems.
Faced with such challenges, the coal industry has been making efforts to search for suitable innovative solutions. Currently, F5G has initiated the first steps to overcoming these obstacles. The 5th Generation Fixed Network, otherwise known as F5G, provides the foundation for the full connection of coal mines with its super large bandwidth and low delay together with the industrial ring network and 5G.
The technology has been used since May of 2021 in some coal mines. Press coverage shows that more coal mines will adopt it in Guizhou, Henan, Inner Mongolia, and other regions in China.
Considering other challenges of intelligent development still remain in the coal mining industry, BESTAO estimated that there will be a largely potential demand in the equipment with intelligent solution. Foreign industries in the industrial Internet area are suggest to do some market surveys to seek for possible business opportunities in the fields of industrial Internet, F5G and other technologies applicable for mines.
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