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A residential community has fire water tanks distributed across various locations. These tanks play a critical role in providing emergency water supply in case of a fire. However, due to the large number of tanks, their scattered locations, and long manual inspection cycles, the traditional management approach struggles to monitor water levels, water quality, and valve status in real time. Common issues include undetected low water levels, delayed response to valve failures, and missing data records.

To address these challenges, WideIOT proposes an IoT-based remote monitoring system solution for fire water tanks using industrial IoT gateways. The solution integrates unified data collection through smart gateways, edge computing, and cloud-based collaborative management. It provides visualization, early warning, remote control, and full traceability for fire water tanks, significantly improving fire safety and maintenance efficiency.

System Architecture

By deploying WideIOT industrial IoT gateways connected to devices such as level sensors, electric valves, and water quality monitors, the system collects real-time data on water levels, water quality, and valve status. This data is uploaded to a cloud monitoring platform, which displays it on a visual dashboard. The platform enables comprehensive monitoring, alerting, management, control, and data analysis for fire water tank systems, offering digital support to enhance fire safety facility management and emergency response capabilities.

Key Features

1. Collects and aggregates real-time data including water tank levels, water quality parameters (turbidity, residual chlorine, pH value), valve opening status, pipeline flow rates, and fire alarm signals. It breaks down equipment protocol barriers and builds a unified digital foundation.

2. Supports custom alarm rules. When an anomaly is detected, the system automatically notifies management personnel via WeChat, SMS, or email, and generates a maintenance work order. This creates a complete, closed-loop process of "alarm → dispatch → resolution → closure."

3. Generates daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly reports. It supports comparative analysis by different water tanks, zones, and time periods, helping optimize inspection schedules and equipment maintenance strategies, and supports data-driven decision-making.

4. The gateway supports multi-center data distribution, allowing data to be shared with property management platforms, fire department management systems, and other relevant platforms. This ensures transparent, real-time information sharing and supports effective implementation of related decisions.