Smart Education
Safeguarding Teaching and Research with Cutting-Edge Power Technology, Empowering Future Talent Development
Industry Trends
Technological Innovation Drives Profound Transformation of Teaching Models

The integration of information technology with education and teaching is entering deep waters as cutting-edge technologies including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and edge computing accelerate their deployment in educational settings. New teaching models such as interactive classrooms, remote experiments, and intelligent assessment emerge continuously, imposing higher standards on underlying information infrastructure. Teaching terminal devices grow increasingly sophisticated, data center loads continue to climb, and stable power supply has become a core element in ensuring normal teaching order. From kindergartens to graduate schools, digital equipment demands for power quality have reached unprecedented levels.


According to authoritative education industry statistics, national education informatization funding has cumulatively surpassed 800 billion yuan over the past three years, with smart education infrastructure investment projected to exceed 300 billion yuan by 2028, opening vast growth opportunities in the power assurance sector.

The Intelligent Era Calls for Comprehensive Campus Infrastructure Upgrades

Driven by both new urbanization and education modernization, campus infrastructure faces pressure for systematic restructuring. Application scenarios including unified identity authentication, online collaboration platforms, digital libraries, and smart sports venues continue to expand, consuming network bandwidth and power capacity at exponential rates. Building a resilient, scalable, and intelligently operated energy supply system has become a necessary prerequisite for educational institutions advancing digital transformation.


The ideal campus of the future should be an organic whole featuring ubiquitous connectivity, proactive sensing, and automatic response. Smart lighting systems automatically adjust brightness based on crowd density, environmental monitoring platforms optimize HVAC energy consumption in real time, and teaching resource pools allocate computing power on demand. Underlying all these intelligent applications, a power architecture with high availability, high energy efficiency ratio, and full-lifecycle management capability is needed as the foundation.

Core Challenges
Insufficient Research Computing Support
Computing demands at key universities and research institutes are experiencing explosive growth. Scientific research tasks including molecular dynamics simulation, weather prediction modeling, and genome alignment impose extremely high requirements on computing cluster scale and stability. However, most institutions' existing data centers were built years ago with limited power distribution capacity and outdated cooling architectures, making it difficult to accommodate high power-density equipment deployment needs, severely constraining the output efficiency of cutting-edge research.
Diverse Teaching Scenario Integration
Modern classrooms have evolved from single lecture models to composite forms integrating multimedia interaction, remote collaboration, and virtual-physical fusion. Interactive smart terminals, multi-camera recording systems, and campus IoT gateways are deployed in large quantities, imposing higher requirements on endpoint power stability and wiring flexibility. Meanwhile, scenarios such as hybrid online-offline teaching and cross-campus synchronized classrooms pose severe challenges to network and power continuity.
Growing Pressure for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction
Under the policy environment of fully deployed "dual carbon" targets, educational institutions face hard constraints of dual control over total energy consumption and intensity. Legacy data centers generally have high PUE values and low energy utilization efficiency. Introducing renewable energy generation, energy storage systems, and intelligent power distribution solutions to build a green, low-carbon campus energy system has become a dual requirement for policy compliance and cost optimization.
Lack of Unified O&M Management
On-campus equipment including power distribution cabinets, UPS systems, precision air conditioners, and lighting systems come from various brands with incompatible protocols, forcing O&M teams to switch between multiple management platforms, leading to delayed fault response and opaque energy consumption data. Building an integrated energy monitoring and dispatch platform for end-to-end visibility, manageability, and controllability has become the key lever for improving O&M efficiency and ensuring teaching continuity.
Case Studies
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies is a provincial key university distinguished by its internationalized education approach. With the full-scale deployment of multi-campus collaborative teaching and smart management platforms, the existing central data center’s carrying capacity had become severely strained. Low space utilization, aging UPS systems without redundant configuration, prominent single-point failure risks, and an O&M team long stuck in reactive response mode made comprehensive upgrade and renovation of the core data center an urgent necessity.
Implementation Strategy
Adopted a prefabricated micro module data center architecture with enclosed cold aisles and in-row precision air conditioning. Core power supply uses N+1 redundant modular UPS systems with on-demand expansion capability; intelligent power distribution cabinets integrate power parameter monitoring, working with the DCIM platform to achieve comprehensive visualized O&M of the data center environment.
Results Achieved
After the new data center entered operation, overall system availability reached above 99.99%. Data center PUE was optimized from 1.85 before renovation to below 1.28, with annual electricity cost savings of approximately 350,000 yuan. Alert response time improved from hours to minutes, and O&M labor costs were reduced by over 50%, effectively supporting daily teaching and research activities of tens of thousands of faculty and students across three campuses.
Xidian University
Xidian University is a prestigious high-level research university in China’s electronic information field, which has comprehensively accelerated digital campus construction in recent years. The university’s Network and Information Security Center hosts core business systems for tens of thousands of faculty and students including campus card, academic administration, and research cloud platforms — data center power reliability directly determines the lifeline of campus digital operations, and the existing power distribution infrastructure could no longer meet high-availability operational requirements.
Implementation Strategy
Deployed micro module data center with enclosed cold pool system, paired with dual-input power distribution architecture and intelligent rack power distribution units. Core UPS uses double-conversion online topology, supporting online battery capacity expansion and maintenance bypass functionality, ensuring uninterrupted load power during equipment maintenance.
Results Achieved
After renovation, the data center achieved significantly increased cabinet density within limited space, with all critical equipment supporting front-maintenance design that effectively saved service aisle space. PUE dropped from 1.8 to 1.26, with annual electricity savings exceeding 320,000 yuan. Core business systems achieved dual-path automatic switchover protection, running continuously for over two years without unplanned downtime, building a solid power assurance foundation for campus digital operations continuity.
Southwest Jiaotong University
Southwest Jiaotong University is a nationally renowned key university in the rail transit field, whose scientific data center handles computing and storage tasks for multiple national-level research platforms covering cutting-edge directions including CAE simulation, big data analysis, and AI model training. The existing data center faced saturated rack positions, severely insufficient power distribution capacity, and low cooling efficiency from aging air conditioning systems, critically constraining research progress — building a next-generation high-performance computing center became an urgent priority.
Implementation Strategy
Adopted prefabricated micro module data center with enclosed cold aisle design, featuring built-in in-row precision air delivery cooling systems, effectively overcoming the challenge of limited building ceiling height preventing traditional underfloor air distribution. Power distribution uses dual-bus architecture paired with modular UPS, with battery packs configured on demand to minimize initial investment while ensuring reliability.
Results Achieved
The project went from site delivery to full go-live in just 30 days, rapidly responding to the urgency of research demands. Data center per-cabinet power density reached 8kW, with overall deployment density nearly tripling conventional solutions. Annual average PUE stabilized around 1.22, and the O&M platform achieved 24/7 remote monitoring of all elements including temperature, humidity, power, and access control, improving O&M efficiency by over 65%, providing a solid and reliable computing foundation for the efficient advancement of multiple national-level research projects at the university.