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A large injection molding manufacturer operates multiple production lines, each equipped with high-energy-consumption devices such as injection molding machines, dryers, mold temperature controllers, chiller units, and air compressors. The customer has long faced several challenges: First, electricity, water, and gas meters are scattered across various equipment and distribution cabinets, and data is collected manually each month—an inefficient and error-prone process. Second, there is no real-time visibility into the energy consumption per unit of production (e.g., electricity per product) for each injection molding machine, making it difficult to pinpoint high-energy processes. Third, workshop managers lack tools for analyzing energy consumption trends, which hinders the development of effective energy-saving strategies—resulting in persistently high energy costs.

Therefore, the customer urgently needs a digital management system that can automatically collect multiple types of energy data, correlate them with production output for energy efficiency analysis, and support remote monitoring and alerting. In response, WideIOT provides a reliable and efficient IoT solution. By deploying energy data collection gateways that connect to energy meters (water, electricity, gas, heat, etc.), the system can collect real-time energy consumption data and report it to a local workshop management platform. This enables automatic matching between energy usage and production output, creating a visualized energy dashboard that provides comprehensive and reliable data support for energy management and optimization.

Key Features

1. Covers all energy types including electricity, water, gas, and compressed air. Supports mainstream meter protocols such as Modbus, DL/T645, and CJ/T188. Data collection intervals can be flexibly configured.

2. Allows users to set reasonable thresholds for various energy consumption indicators. When energy usage exceeds the set thresholds, the system immediately sends alerts via SMS, WeChat, email, or other methods, enabling quick identification and corrective actions.

3. Performs multi-dimensional statistical analysis of collected energy data, generating daily, monthly, and annual energy reports. Displays energy distribution and trends across different time periods, devices, and production lines.

4. The gateway is equipped with multiple communication ports (serial/Ethernet), enabling one-to-many data collection from multiple meters. It also features multi-network redundancy, intermittent data retransmission, and other functions to ensure secure and reliable data collection and communication.