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A water utility company engaged in the production and supply of tap water has deployed a large number of online water quality monitoring instruments across its facilities, such as online biotoxicity analyzers and online cyanide monitors. These devices all use RS485 serial interfaces and the Modbus RTU protocol, and they are widely scattered throughout the plant. Manual data logging and management have become highly inefficient, posing a significant challenge to the company’s goal of building a 5G-enabled smart water plant.

To enable remote centralized supervision, the first challenge is to aggregate data from multiple instruments and handle protocol conversion. Traditional wired solutions are costly, time-consuming to deploy, and lack the flexibility to accommodate future expansion. To address this, WideIOT offers a multi-serial port 5G gateway that supports data collection from multiple serial devices and protocol parsing. It can gather data from multiple instruments simultaneously and convert it into standard Ethernet TCP data, which is then reliably transmitted to the central water management platform. This enables unified remote monitoring of all water quality monitoring equipment across the plant.

From the control room, operators can view real-time data and operating status of all online monitoring instruments through the platform, eliminating the need for manual on-site inspections. At the same time, any abnormal conditions or faults trigger instant alarm notifications, allowing timely response and corrective actions to ensure water safety and stable supply.

Key Benefits

A single gateway can aggregate data from multiple dispersed instruments, eliminating the need to run separate communication cables for each device. This greatly simplifies on-site wiring, reduces installation costs, and shortens project timelines.

The gateway supports multiple network connectivity options, including 5G/4G, Wi-Fi, and wired Ethernet, enabling real-time transmission of water quality parameters and equipment status to the central management platform, ensuring data timeliness.

It comes with a rich set of built-in industrial protocols, supporting mainstream protocols like Modbus, and can convert data into standard formats such as MQTT and Modbus TCP, making it easy to integrate with third-party SCADA systems or cloud platforms.

Designed with industrial-grade hardware, the gateway features moisture resistance and electromagnetic interference shielding, making it well-suited for harsh and humid environments such as water plant control rooms and monitoring stations. It ensures reliable 24/7 continuous operation.