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Catalysts to catapult digitalization in power sector-an outlook

Koteswara Rao Pothala, Vijayakumar Varadarajan

Abstract


Workplace digitalization has ample advantages. It helps improve safety, efficiency, productivity, security, transparency, and sustainability to name a few. Further it minimizes human errors, brings a single point of truth out, promotes transparency and collaboration, boosts operational intelligence, and reduces costs. Despite such a plethora of benefits, digitalization could not grow as much as it is expected to be in the power sector due to an umpteen number of challenges. This paper presents a study on such challenges for digitalization in power sector and catalysts to overcome them and a framework achieve the clear-headed digitalization.


Keywords


analytics; digitization; digitalization; digital transformation; real digital twin; drones; APM; EAM; automation; visualization; PADO; AI; IoT; ML; OT; workplace digitalization; SDG7; SDG13

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.32629/jai.v7i4.1145

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