2025 Asia-Pacific Electric Association Conference | Huawei Unveils New Features for Smart Substation Perimeter Security Fiber Optic Sensing

[Singapore, October 31, 2025] From October 29 to 31, 2025, the Asia-Pacific Power Conference was held in Singapore. As the flagship event of the Asian and Eastern Pacific Electricity Industry Association (AESIEAP), this biennial conference is one of the largest and most influential gatherings in the power industry across the Asia-Pacific region. This year's conference attracted over 4,000 participants, including leaders from energy enterprises, analysts, industry professionals, and government officials. Huawei attended the conference with new features of its Smart Substation Solution (hereinafter referred to as "the solution") and engaged in in-depth discussions with leading power supply industry professionals from the East and Western Pacific regions on topics such as energy transition and smart grids.

Li Jie, President of Global Marketing and Solutions for Huawei's Digital Power Corps, stated: "The integration of technologies such as automation, digitalization, and artificial intelligence will be a key driver in modernizing power grids. Huawei firmly believes that deeply embedding digital technologies into power scenarios and redefining production and operational models through communication and AI will help achieve the unity of 'extreme stability' and 'extreme flexibility.'" This operational model is reflected in the new feature of Huawei's smart substation perimeter security fiber-optic sensing, which was unveiled at the conference.

Traditional substations commonly suffer from issues such as heavy reliance on manual operations, delayed response times, and complex risks caused by system failure to detect; At the same time, equipment status checks are scattered and inefficient, and manual inspections can easily lead to defect omissions and operational hazards. This solution uses fiber optic and sensing algorithm engines to sense changes in vibration waveforms, and combines Huawei's AI big model algorithm to accurately identify personnel and foreign object intrusions; At the same time, with the help of the management system and the linkage of perimeter perception terminals, on-site verification is carried out for operation and maintenance personnel to confirm again, achieving extremely low false alarm and missed alarm rates through optical visual linkage.

Huawei's Vice President of Government and Enterprise Optics, Zhang Hao, stated that the perimeter security fiber sensing feature is based on AI. With its high precision, environmental adaptability, and all-weather detection, it ensures the perimeter protection of substations and power plants, as well as the safety of underground cables, and reduces the cost of manual inspections, thereby improving operational efficiency. ”This solution has been implemented in multiple overseas regions, achieving a 90% reduction in asset theft incidents. Compared with traditional vibration cable solutions, the response time for intrusion incidents has been increased from minutes to seconds, effectively improving the safety level of the station and ensuring the stable operation of the power grid.

In addition to the aforementioned applications, AI also plays a unique role in multiple scenarios within the power industry. Wang Guoyu, Vice President of Huawei Power Digitalization Corps, pointed out at the technical forum of the conference: "In the energy industry, real-time and high-quality data is the key to fully leveraging the role of AI, and a highly reliable communication network is the foundation for achieving real-time and high-quality data. This requires redefining digital scenarios and communication target networks, as well as redefining network security. He said, "The foundation of AI is computing power, the end of computing power is electricity, and the future of electricity is AI

At the same time as the conference, Huawei held an IDS Club roundtable around power distribution scenarios and held the Huawei Asia Pacific Power Partner Forum to discuss regional development and opportunities with regional partners; Several power companies visited Huawei Asia Pacific Open Laboratory to gain a deeper understanding of Huawei's practice and exploration of power digitization. In the future, Huawei will continue to work closely with power companies and partners in the Asia Pacific region to accelerate the digital transformation of the power industry.