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Urban lifelines—including key infrastructure systems such as water supply, drainage, heating, gas, and electricity—are essential supports for the normal operation of a city, the daily lives of its residents, and public safety. As urbanization accelerates and pipeline networks age, incidents such as leaks, pipe bursts, supply interruptions, and urban flooding have become increasingly frequent. Traditional manual inspection and decentralized monitoring methods are no longer sufficient to meet the demands of real-time, accurate, and preventive management. To address this, WideIOT provides highly reliable industrial IoT gateways to help build a secure and efficient urban lifeline safety monitoring and management system.

Water Supply and Drainage Monitoring

In water supply and drainage scenarios, WideIOT's industrial gateway can connect to pressure gauges, flow meters, water level sensors, and water quality analyzers. It collects real-time data such as pipeline pressure, instantaneous flow, turbidity, residual chlorine, pH levels, and liquid levels in stormwater and sewage wells, and transmits both real-time and alert data to the monitoring center via 4G/5G or wired networks. When low pipeline pressure or excessive liquid levels are detected, the system can remotely control valves or pumps. In extreme rainstorm conditions, it can also combine weather forecasts with early warnings to pre-emptively drain storage tanks, effectively preventing urban flooding.

Heating System Monitoring

In heating scenarios, the industrial gateway is deployed at heat exchange stations, heating manholes, and customer inlets. It collects parameters such as supply and return water temperature, pressure, instantaneous heat flow, and valve opening, and sends this data to a smart heating management platform. This allows operators to adjust the supply water temperature and flow of primary and secondary heating networks, ensuring indoor comfort while saving energy. More importantly, if anomalies such as pressure loss, abnormal temperature drop rates, or sudden flow surges are detected, the system can immediately push work orders to maintenance personnel, helping to avoid large-scale heating outages.

Power System Monitoring

In power system monitoring, the industrial gateway is deployed at distribution rooms, ring main units, cable tunnels, and EV charging stations. It collects electrical parameters such as voltage, current, active power, power factor, cable joint temperature, and leakage current. When a fault trip or threshold alarm is detected, the platform can automatically identify the fault location and dispatch repair work orders. At the same time, it calculates the affected area of the power outage and pushes notifications to the public, significantly reducing fault response and recovery times.