Blockchain Hydropower Risk Control via Distributed Node Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing hydropower station management systems face challenges in credible and transparent risk data management due to centralized data storage, leading to asymmetry between stations, low risk prevention efficiency, and misjudgment of rare risks, especially in stepped hydropower development.
Innovation Solution
A blockchain-based hydropower station operation risk control system where participating nodes generate and share risk parameterization solutions, with different types of risk information stored in separate slave chains, enabling comprehensive risk decision-making and data sharing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If centralized data management mode is adopted for stepped hydropower stations, then data storage and calling can be implemented, but risk data credibility and transparency deteriorate, and information asymmetry between stations increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the centralized data management system into distributed blockchain nodes, where each hydropower station operates as an independent node. Risk data is segmented and stored across multiple nodes rather than centralized, ensuring data credibility through distributed verification while maintaining accessibility through the blockchain network structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a blockchain intermediary layer that mediates data sharing between hydropower stations. This intermediary ensures transparent and credible risk data management by providing a decentralized, immutable ledger that all stations can access, eliminating information asymmetry while maintaining ease of data storage and retrieval.
2Ease of operation
If centralized data management is used, then data can be stored and accessed, but information islands form among hydropower stations and risk prevention efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges previously isolated data systems of individual hydropower stations into a unified blockchain network. By combining data from multiple stations into a shared ledger, the system eliminates information islands while maintaining efficient data access, thereby improving overall risk prevention efficiency through comprehensive data visibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The blockchain platform provides universal data access functionality for all hydropower stations simultaneously. Each node can store, access, and share risk data through the same decentralized infrastructure, enabling multi-functional use across different stations without forming information silos, thus enhancing risk prevention efficiency.
3Device complexity
If cloud-centered data management is adopted, then data storage is centralized, but calculation and analysis system becomes vulnerable to complete paralysis upon failure
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the centralized cloud management system into distributed blockchain nodes. Each hydropower station runs its own node, dividing the system into independent, autonomous units. This segmentation ensures that failure of one node does not paralyze the entire system, maintaining high availability while preserving manageable complexity through modular architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the fundamental parameter of system architecture from centralized to decentralized. By transforming the management structure parameter, the system achieves improved reliability through distributed redundancy while maintaining acceptable complexity levels through standardized blockchain protocols and automated consensus mechanisms.
4Duration of action of moving object
If limited operation time of stepped hydropower stations is considered, then each station cannot experience all risk types, but misjudgment of rare risks increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges risk data from multiple hydropower stations with different operation histories into a shared blockchain ledger. By combining data across stations, the system accumulates sufficient information about rare risks that individual short-operating stations would not encounter alone, thereby improving risk assessment accuracy without requiring extended operation time at each station.
Solution Approach 2:
The blockchain acts as an intermediary that aggregates and shares risk data across hydropower stations. This intermediary mechanism allows stations with limited operation time to access accumulated risk information from other stations, improving their ability to assess rare risks accurately without needing to experience all risk types themselves.
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AI summary
The present invention provides a hydropower station operation risk control system based on blockchain, wherein participating nodes of respective hydropower stations act as nodes in a blockchain, a first node is configured to generate blocks according to transaction information generated by each node, and add the blocks into a main chain, wherein the transaction information is information generated when each node transmits a risk parameterization solution to the blockchain; the first node is further configured to extract multiple types of risk information from the risk parameterization solution, generate different blocks according to each type of risk information respectively, and add the blocks corresponding to different types of risk information to corresponding slave chains respectively; a second node is configured to call a slave chain and combine with risk information in the slave chain to form a risk decision for the hydropower station to which the second node belongs. Through the present invention, sharing of data among the blockchain is realized, and the hydropower station can combine more complete and similar scheduling and risk information in the blockchain to form risk decisions when facing risks.