Recently, Hu Xinyu, Chief Engineer of State Grid Yancheng Power Supply Company, led a team to Yancheng Big Data Group for in-depth discussions on cooperation in the low-altitude economy sector. The two sides discussed topics such as drone data management, computing power construction, resource sharing, and pilot implementation, reaching broad consensus on data standard interoperability and the reuse of computing facilities. This is expected to activate a "multiplier effect" in the low-altitude economy industry in Yancheng, connecting it with an integrated digital infrastructure encompassing cloud, network, terminal, data, application, and security.cordless stick vacuum China
In recent years, State Grid Yancheng Power Supply Company has successively put into operation integrated air-ground-space intelligent inspection vehicles, fixed airports, and professional drone operation centers. It routinely conducts autonomous inspections of transmission lines, power distribution equipment, substations, and distributed photovoltaic systems. Relying on massive visible light and infrared image data, it has established a defect intelligent identification model, which improves the efficiency of hidden danger investigation several times over compared with manual methods. It can provide the society with hundreds of certified drone pilots every year, becoming a mature model of the low-altitude economy of the "power grid air-ground-space intelligent inspection system" in vertical industries. It has the inherent conditions to be exported to the fields of urban governance, ecological inspection, and emergency rescue.
As the main operator of public data and the main force for the development of the digital economy in Yancheng City, Yancheng Big Data Group possesses an advanced green data center and integrated computing power scheduling platform in East China. Its subsidiary, Shuzheng Cloud, has created a FaaS (Flight as a Service) model that combines "drone flight services + SaaS platform + AI algorithm + real-scene 3D digital twin base". It has developed more than 40 AI algorithms and deployed a comprehensive low-altitude flight service center in the city. It has accumulated rich practical experience in scenarios such as river patrol, environmental monitoring, air transport of medical supplies, and farmland plant protection, and has obtained the civil unmanned aerial vehicle operation qualification certificate.Cordless Vacuum Cleaner China
The joint proposal by both parties to build a low-altitude flight service platform in Yancheng City is essentially an exploration of a new model of government-enterprise collaboration characterized by "industry application-driven, data computing power feedback, and infrastructure co-construction and sharing": the power supply company provides flight resources, inspection scenarios, and historical datasets, while the big data group contributes computing power scheduling, route planning engines, and airspace supervision capabilities. By breaking down the "data silos" between them through unified data interfaces and interaction standards, the same drone can, in addition to completing power grid inspection tasks, undertake river illegal construction inspections or straw burning monitoring as needed, truly achieving "one drone for multiple uses, one flight for multiple functions, and flight as the result".
Therefore, we must emulate the State Grid Yancheng Power Supply Company by refining cooperation models, developing platform co-construction plans, and establishing implementation paths for the first batch of pilot scenarios. We must integrate the "aerial sentinels" on the power lines into the city's digital infrastructure, transforming the inspection experience of power grid workers into public capabilities for the low-altitude economy industrial chain. Only in this way can every compliant flight generate credible data, and only then can every piece of data contribute to the city's operations, thus providing a replicable "Yancheng model" for similar cities nationwide.
