Digital infrastructure for energy plants
Snet Systems is rapidly expanding its business beyond its existing corporate and public-sector IT infrastructure operations into digital infrastructure for energy plants that generate and store electricity.
Snet Systems said it had established an international project track record by participating in successive large renewable energy plant projects in South Korea and overseas, building industrial operational technology (OT) communications and security infrastructure that connects generation equipment with control systems.
As AI and automation technologies are increasingly adopted at solar, offshore wind and other energy plants, operations are shifting from individual equipment management to network-based integrated operating systems. Through multiple projects, Snet Systems has gained design experience based on the international industrial power equipment communications standard IEC 61850 and industrial control system security standard IEC 62443, developing integrated engineering capabilities covering communications architecture, availability, security and operational visibility.
Expansion into AI data centers
Snet Systems is extending its energy plant experience into AI data centers (AIDCs) in South Korea and overseas. As securing electricity becomes a key challenge with the spread of AI, the company is targeting market demand for linking data center construction with on-site generation facilities. Its strategy is to offer a differentiated business model by combining its existing AI and IT infrastructure capabilities with expertise in communications for data center power equipment.
To that end, Snet Systems signed a strategic memorandum of understanding with global automation company Emerson Korea on October 21. The companies will identify joint projects in three areas, renewable energy, AI data centers and industrial AI, and work together on proposals and implementation. At energy plants, Emerson Korea will provide its Ovation control system to operate generation and storage equipment, while Snet Systems will handle the industrial networks and security connecting that equipment. Snet Systems will add its proprietary IMS (OT-NMS) solution, which analyzes and monitors industrial networks in real time, to improve operational visibility at plants.
For data centers, the companies plan to actively identify joint business opportunities that combine Emerson Korea's Ovation-based energy plant and equipment control capabilities with Snet Systems' IT/OT networking capabilities to offer integrated power and operating infrastructure from the design stage.
Company outlines its strategy
Park Dong-chan, an executive director at Snet Systems, said, "In the AI era, power and energy infrastructure that enables uninterrupted operation is more important than ever, alongside computing infrastructure itself." Park added, "Building on the communications and security engineering capabilities demonstrated in overseas renewable energy plant projects, we will help industrial sites adopt AI transformation and work to become an IT partner leading a sustainable global AI data center ecosystem."
Original Korean article: denews.co.kr
English brief by Korea Wind Intelligence, koreawindintel.com
