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Urban underground pipelines include water supply, drainage, gas, heating, power, and communication lines. These pipelines serve as the "lifeline" and "blood vessels" that ensure the normal operation of a city. With the acceleration of urbanization in China, the country's underground pipeline network has now become the largest in the world, with a total length exceeding 3.78 million kilometers.

However, despite its massive scale, frequent issues such as leakage, urban flooding, gas leaks, and accidents caused by improper construction have become major constraints on the safe and resilient development of cities. Digitizing, visualizing, and intelligently managing this vast underground network—shifting from reactive emergency repairs to proactive prevention—has become a core challenge for urban management. To address this, WideIOT provides a highly reliable visual monitoring and management system solution for underground pipelines.

Solution Overview

At key points throughout the pipeline network (such as valve pits, pumping stations, heat exchange stations, and substations), WideIOT industrial intelligent gateways are deployed. These gateways feature powerful industrial protocol parsing capabilities (supporting Modbus, PLC, OPC UA, etc.) and can connect to various sensors (pressure, flow, temperature, liquid level, gas concentration, etc.). Data is encrypted and uploaded to a cloudbased monitoring center via 5G/4G/WiFi/Ethernet, enabling remote monitoring, alarming, inspection, management, and statistical analysis, thereby supporting refined operation of underground pipelines.

Key Functions

Water Supply Pipelines

Realtime collection of key data such as water pressure, flow rate, pump status, and water quality indicators. Automatic alerts are triggered when anomalies are detected, and remote control of pumps and valves is supported. Data reports are generated to support pipeline inspection, repair, renovation, and water supply scheduling optimization.

Drainage Pipelines

Realtime monitoring of liquid level, flow velocity,water accumulation depth, and pump status. Operation and fault data are fully recorded to create standardized logs, providing a basis for pipeline dredging, pump station upgrades, and drainage system optimization.

Gas Pipelines

Realtime collection of operational data including pipeline pressure, gas concentration, medium temperature, and valve status. This enables realtime monitoring and precise control of multiple gas stations and provides digital support for equipment updates and system upgrades.

Power Pipelines

Realtime monitoring of core parameters such as cable temperature, ambient temperature and humidity inside trenches, supply voltage, current, power, and leakage status. Immediate alerts are triggered for anomalies, allowing rapid response to ensure power supply safety and stability.

Heating Pipelines

Realtime collection of supply and return water temperature, pressure, flow rate, and equipment operating status. Data is displayed via visual configuration diagrams, establishing a standardized operation and maintenance mechanism. Rapid control of anomalies ensures stable and reliable heating.

Utility Tunnels

Realtime collection of data such as ambient temperature and humidity, gas concentration,water accumulation level, equipment power supply, and fiber optic cable status. This enables monitoring and management of all pipeline facilities, creation of electronic equipment logs, recording of maintenance activities, and optimized resource scheduling.