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For industrial water-intensive users, the utilization of circulating water systems can effectively reduce water wastage and enhance water resource utilization efficiency.

However, the lack of visual management tools has resulted in circulating water systems failing to achieve optimal energy efficiency ranges, with issues such as high energy consumption, coarse management, and delayed control becoming increasingly difficult to meet the requirements of green manufacturing and refined management.

A certain enterprise has implemented automated control of circulating water pumps by adding PLC inverters, requiring real-time acquisition of operating parameters and energy consumption data from circulating water pump units, and centralizing this data onto a management platform for statistical comparison and analysis, in order to understand energy consumption levels and energy efficiency disparities.

In response, WideIOT has deployed industrial IoT gateways capable of real-time data acquisition from PLCs, electricity meters, and other equipment, and interfacing with local upper computers or cloud platforms to enable remote monitoring, alarming, management, control, maintenance, and analysis functions, thereby facilitating intelligent management of circulating water systems and achieving energy savings and efficiency improvements.

Implemented Functions:

• The gateway is equipped with multiple communication interfaces such as serial ports and network ports, enabling data acquisition from devices such as PLCs, smart electricity meters, and flow meters, and providing internet connectivity via 5G/4G/WiFi/Ethernet, with features such as breakpoint resumption and multi-network mutual backup.

• Real-time acquisition of signals such as circulating water flow, supply and return water pressure differentials, and water temperature changes, with judgment and alarm processing of abnormal data, enabling centralized monitoring and data display on the management platform.

• In the event of abnormal alarms, management personnel can remotely start or stop water pumps and operate valve switches via mobile phones or computers, thereby enhancing emergency response capabilities and management levels.

• Real-time monitoring of water pump operating current, actual operating frequency, total water supply flow, outlet pressure, and return water temperature, establishing a water pump operation dashboard for viewing the operating status and alarm information of each water pump at any time.

• Acquisition, calculation, and display of data such as daily average electricity consumption, electricity consumption per ton of water, and quarterly total electricity consumption, forming data reports and curve graphs to aid in summarizing experience and patterns, and making scientific and reasonable decisions.