BIWIN Industrial Memory & Storage for Electric Power System

Overview

As the global energy transition accelerates, smart grids become a key driver of green and low-carbon development. As a core component of the energy system, smart grids require robust storage solutions to support efficient processing, real-time transmission, and secure storage of vast amounts of data.

BIWIN’s energy storage solutions, with high performance, wide temperature adaptability, and exceptional reliability, provide stable support for key scenarios from data acquisition and intelligent device operation to core data centers. These solutions enable smart energy systems to unlock the value of data, offering strong support for creating a more efficient, secure, and greener energy future.

Requirements

Outdoor Environment Adaptability: Operation in high temperatures, low temperatures, and strong electromagnetic interference in outdoor environments such as substations, wind farms, and solar power plants, ensuring stable data collection and monitoring.
Real-time Data Acquisition and Storage: Ability to handle massive data generated by sensors, smart meters, and monitoring terminals for real-time data acquisition, storage, and retrieval for monitoring, alarms, and operational analysis.
Long-Term Reliability and Industry Compliance: Ensuring long-term stable operation and data storage system reliability throughout the equipment lifecycle, compliant with industry standards like DL/T860, supporting stable operation of smart terminals and monitoring systems.
Multi-Scenario Adaptability and Customization: Tailored storage solutions for diverse power applications, including electrical distribution automation, photovoltaic inverters, and wind power monitoring—and meeting specific requirements for storage capacity, interface types, and environmental resilience.

Highlights

Extreme Outdoor Environment Endurance: Super-wide temperature range (-40°C to +105°C) and electromagnetic interference resistance for stable long-term operation in harsh outdoor environments such as substations, wind farms, and solar power plants.
Real-Time Data Logging: Meets the high concurrent access requirements for massive sensor data, real-time monitoring, and historical records, ensuring efficient analysis and response.
Long-Term Stability: pSLC solution paired with intelligent GC/WL algorithms and optimized write amplification, compliant with DL/T860 and other industry standards, ensuring stable long-term operation of smart meters and monitoring terminals over extended lifecycles.
Customization: Provides tailored product solutions to meet diverse power equipment application scenarios.

Case Study

Background

In electrical power systems, the core board is a critical component, and the storage chip must provide high performance, secure data transmission, and robust processing capabilities to meet the demands of data handling and real-time control.

The client is a leading company in China’s integrated circuit design sector, a key player in the power metering chip field. BIWIN provided high-performance and reliable ICs, offering customized solutions to ensure the stability, adaptability, and long-term reliability of the electric power equipment.

Challenges

Harsh Environmental Conditions: Outdoor equipment, such as substations, wind farms, and solar plants, needs to operate in extreme temperatures, high humidity, and electromagnetic interference—without disruption.
Long-Term Continuous Operation: Power equipment requires solutions with high reliability, long lifespan, and stable performance over extended periods.
High-Risk Industry Conditions: Integration of safety features to handle high-voltage and high-current risks inherent to the electric power industry.
Complex Data Processing: Intelligent electric power systems demand efficient real-time data processing and calculation capabilities to manage massive data from various sensors.

Implementation

BIWIN TGE218 eMMC 5.1 is an advanced embedded storage solution with integrated IC packaging for better heat, moisture, and shock resistance, designed to operate reliably in harsh industrial environments. Featuring an industrial-grade main controller and industrial-grade MLC NAND flash memory, the solution is built to endure high-load operations, ensuring data reliability even in demanding conditions.

The storage system utilizes a low-capacity packaging design, meeting the wide-temperature range of -40°C to +85°C, delivering stable performance in extreme conditions.

BIWIN TGE218 eMMC incorporates emergency power-loss protection, global wear leveling management, Field Firmware Upgrade (FFU) support, and ECC (Error Correction Code) algorithms, ensuring the stability and resilience of critical operations while safeguarding data integrity.

Outcomes

Provided a customized TGE218 eMMC solution that met the client’s performance and reliability requirements, offering a competitive cost advantage over alternative products.
Enabled the client to optimize both cost and performance, significantly enhancing the market competitiveness of their products.
Successfully helped the client achieve improved cost-performance optimization, while BIWIN successfully expanded into the electric power sector, achieving a mutually beneficial outcome for both parties.