At the beginning of the new year, sponsored by the All-China Environment Federation, the China Association for the Promotion of Science and Technology Industrialization, and the Environmental Chamber of Commerce of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, co-organized by Hejun Consulting and Tsingshan Industry Review, and undertaken by Eridi, a public welfare knowledge sharing live broadcast event entitled "Large-scale Implementation of Digital and Intelligent Technology, Driving the New Future of Environmental Protection Water Technology Industry" was jointly held. We will deeply analyze the changes brought by this technological change to water enterprises, and share with the audience the relevant insights of the environmental protection water technology industry in the era of digital economy.
In the wave of science and technology in recent years, technologies such as Internet + and big data + have been deeply integrated with business. On this basis, cutting-edge technologies and concepts such as digital twins, Internet of Things, large models, AIGC and data elements have gradually emerged, injecting new scientific and technological vitality into the traditional water industry. With the wide application of new technologies, a new generation of smart water is rapidly taking shape. In the era of digital economy, the innovation of the application layer of environmental protection water technology will provide enterprise customers with more productive path options. These innovative technologies will bring significant cost reduction and efficiency improvement results to enterprises, and promote the sustainable development of the industry.
Therefore, we look forward to the emergence of more application-layer innovations in the field of environmental protection and water technology in the future, providing more effective solutions for enterprises and jointly moving towards a smarter, more efficient and sustainable future.
Trend.
1. The multi-modal environmental protection water model is led by large and medium-sized enterprises to explore and pilot.
2023 has witnessed the rise of large models and become the focus of the AI field. According to IDC's research, many enterprises are deploying applications on private large models. For the environmental protection water industry, the large model of environmental protection water is becoming the focus of the industry's future research. In the field of environmental protection and water affairs, we expect to see in-depth exploration and attempts to adapt the industry of general large models, and improve the richness of intelligent application scenarios by building an exclusive "smart brain" and making full use of industry knowledge and perception data, so as to achieve more ideal comprehensive benefits.
Trend 2: AI agent helps the intelligent transformation of environmental protection water business scenarios
With the rapid development of AIGC, AI agent has become a recognized and deterministic direction in the industry, and it is expected to become the fastest landing application. Starting from 2024, we foresee that AI agent will be efficiently implemented in many environmental protection water business scenarios. AI Agent will deeply integrate perception, response, thinking, and action to become an intelligent assistant for environmental protection water business and operation management, helping enterprises build a new intelligent operation model of "human-machine collaboration". This transformation will change the traditional way of interaction between humans and systems, gradually transform human-computer interaction into collaborative work between humans and AI, and further promote the digitalization and intelligence of business.
Digital practical application: Yingjing Guorun Water Supply and Drainage Company, Feng Tianya, director of Yanqing Water Plant
First of all, through the construction of smart water, the county's production and sales gap has been reduced by more than 10 percentage points, and the leakage points have been accurately found and responded quickly, and very obvious results have been achieved.
Secondly, through the construction of smart water, we will be the original production, water quality test comparison, inspection, delivery, maintenance and other more than ten paper ledgers of the water plant, all of which are electronic, and now the data viewing, query, and analysis are much more convenient than before, and there is no need to compare and calculate through manual work.
Again, we now use the form of mobile phone APP for the inspection of the factory area, through the NFC function of the mobile phone to achieve rapid inspection, before the need to record and compare data, the whole inspection takes more than 30 minutes, now through the mobile phone application to automatically pick up the data, plan the inspection route, reduce the workload of the inspection personnel, now it only takes about 12 minutes to complete an inspection.
Now it is more convenient to hand over, In the past, it was necessary to manually fill in all kinds of ** data on the paper materials, calculate the amount of water, etc., now directly through the mobile phone click**, all the data are automatically read and calculated, only need to hand over the **personnel to shoot the **, and then upload it, more than ten minutes**time, now 1, 2 minutes to get it, very convenient.
In terms of equipment repair and maintenance, the previous paper maintenance plan was made, but now the maintenance is a few days in advance, the system will automatically send a text message notification, and the availability of spare parts will be synchronized, etc., and the whole process of maintenance can also be viewed in the system at any time, which is very convenient.
At present, there are still problems that need to be solved in the process of production and operation
On the one hand, because the current dosing equipment and power supply equipment of the water plant do not support data upload, we are also upgrading the dosing equipment and power supply equipment, hoping that next year we can also add sensors to see how much each agent is used, the electricity consumption of each process link, etc., and finally through the algorithm, help us to save drugs and electricity in production.
On the other hand, we are currently vigorously replacing smart water meters, realizing ** partitioning in 2024, and further refining management for leakage within the community.
I hope that in 2024, smart technology can help us solve the above problems, as much as possible to help us improve production efficiency and further reduce production costs.
Trend.
3. The digital interaction engine promotes the real-time process of digital twins for environmental protection and water affairs.
With the rapid development of digital interaction engines, it will greatly improve the efficiency and ability of digital twin construction and application. Through efficient data collection, the digital interaction engine can quickly reconstruct digital twins and digital scenes, providing strong support for real-time access, rendering, and interaction of real perception data. The digital interaction engine can also generate data based on the interaction, further optimize the application, R&D and production efficiency of the environmental protection water industry, and provide strong support for the digital transformation of the industry.
Trend.
Fourth, the distributed computing power platform of cloud-edge collaboration is widely used in the field of environmental protection and water affairs.
The cloud will focus on core computing and industry capabilities, while the edge side will be committed to solving the challenges of massive data processing and analysis in complex spatio-temporal environments, such as environmental protection, water affairs, and water conservancy. Through efficient data processing, the edge side realizes the business closed loop. In the future, we will see further development in model delivery and optimization of data transmission and processing efficiency. In recent years, a number of software and hardware integrated products and scenario applications will emerge to provide strong technical support for the field of environmental protection and water affairs.
Digital practice application: Ye Jingyang, project leader of Fujian Lanshen Environmental Protection Operation and Maintenance Department
As a leading provider of decentralized sewage treatment equipment and services in Fujian Province, we focus on providing customers with a wide range of decentralized sewage treatment equipment and services. As an environmental protection water enterprise, in the past year, our company has provided a lot of convenience for our daily operation and maintenance work through the construction of the "Blue Deep Brain" intelligent management platform.
First of all, the management personnel can rely on the platform to implement standardized inspection process management, the inspection personnel are present, and the inspection tasks on the "Blue Deep Brain" need to be checked and completed in turn, fill in the records, reduce the dead ends of the inspection, and make the operation traceable, improve the inspection efficiency, and reduce the dependence on individual technical personnel.
The second is that the equipment failure and abnormality will issue an alarm work order, through the APP and SMS to notify the project leader in a timely manner, for example: we have a project site in a high-speed or remote township, from the company to the scene takes an hour or even longer, "blue deep brain" put into use, we can remotely monitor the site equipment operation in the office, when there is an equipment failure alarm, we can use the operation data to analyze, so as to judge the disposal level, if it is a standby equipment failure, The disposal level is not urgent, and it can be dealt with together when there is a work arrangement in the same direction, so that it can effectively avoid repeated outings of personnel and vehicles and reduce the cost of manpower and material resources.
The other is big data analysis - through the platform, the process location and work content of personnel and vehicles are collected and analyzed, the working hours required by each station or the frequency of equipment failure are discovered, and the optimization space is found from the long-term data trajectory for work adjustment.
Up to now, our "Blue Deep Brain" has been connected to more than 500 sites, not only the Qingyuan Mountain Sewage Treatment Project, but also the high-speed service area, toll stations, and agricultural pollution stations have been connected to the Blue Deep Brain, truly realizing intelligent and intelligent management.
We hope that in 2024, smart technology can help us solve more O&M problems and improve the efficiency of inspection.
Trend 5: Accelerate the implementation of high-performance, low-power and environmentally friendly water-friendly computing chips
In order to meet the needs of efficient and low-energy computing for water treatment and monitoring equipment, environmental water technology companies will be committed to developing high-performance, low-power dedicated computing chips. This trend will further reduce energy consumption and improve device performance, enabling AI "small" models to be tightly integrated with hardware to achieve low-cost, mass-mass deployment, and private domain training. This provides a more perfect combination for the "small" model in the field of environmental protection and water affairs and the upgrading of intelligent equipment in the industry, and promotes the intelligent process of the entire industry.
Trend 6: Hyperspectral remote sensing technology for aerospace equipment is widely used in water quality monitoring
With the advancement of technology, aerospace equipment such as satellites, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and advanced equipment, combined with hyperspectral imaging technology, will achieve real-time, efficient and economical water quality monitoring. Through continuous data precipitation and model optimization, it can not only improve the monitoring accuracy, but also effectively solve the impact of meteorological factors on water quality monitoring. This technology will be widely used in multiple scenarios such as environmental protection, emergency response, and watershed management, providing strong technical support for the protection and management of water resources.
Digital practical application: Zhao Lehu, general manager of Jianghuan (Suzhou) Environmental Protection Technology***
In the process of designing, the construction project of Suzhou Weitang water purification and treatment facility in Suzhou is combined with satellite remote sensing radar telemetry, IoT perception, monitoring and other technical methods, and the digital platform is used to comprehensively grasp the water quality of rivers and lakes in the region. Provide management tools for daily management, operation and maintenance, governance decision-making, supervision and assessment.
Through the digital platform, it mainly solves several problems in the operation and management of water quality monitoring, first of all, the application of intelligent perception equipment, the perfect monitoring system, and the key point is intelligent water quality monitoring equipment. and the use of remote sensing equipment to achieve real-time monitoring of water quality, real-time data upload, and provide data support for follow-up operation and management. Secondly, for the information of high water quality detection, the digital platform can transfer and dispose of the information in a timely manner, and archive it to improve the efficiency of problem disposal and ensure that the water quality situation in the region is dealt with in a timely manner. Combined with historical data, through the construction of regional water quality models, the platform provides short-term trends in water quality changes**. As a decision-making reference for operation management, assist the daily scheduling and management of operation management personnel.
From the perspective of operation, we have the following needs: First, the efficiency of IoT sensing still needs to be improved. How to achieve a comprehensive and accurate grasp of the water quality situation in the region at the lowest possible cost through the technical upgrade of the equipment, or through the further optimization of the estimation plan, and use digital technology to reduce costs and increase efficiency.
Second, the integration of the existing digital platform management function with the actual management business needs to be further improved, and digital technology should not only realize offline business. The more important thing is to improve the efficiency of business management, put forward suggestions and optimization plans, and guide the improvement of business management level.
The third is the application of intelligent technology. It should be able to truly combine with actual business management, be closer to the actual management needs, gradually transition from auxiliary decision-making to real decision-making, and improve the correctness of decision-making, and truly realize intelligence.
Hopefully, in 2024, smart technology can help us solve these problems. As much as possible, we can increase our production efficiency and increase transportation in the water industry.
Trend 7: Real-time water resource dispatching optimization based on deep neural networks
Traditional hydraulic and hydrological mechanism models have limitations in terms of computational speed and accuracy. Driven by new needs and technological developments, the combination of AI technology and computing power will give rise to a number of new modeling technologies, which will be widely used in environmental protection water business scenarios. Based on the deep neural network, a new water resources optimization scheduling algorithm will be formed. By using satellite imagery, meteorological data, and continuously improving sensing and edge computing capabilities, the accuracy of floods and environmental problems** will be greatly improved, and real-time scheduling strategies will be calculated, so as to establish a more efficient and accurate optimal scheduling model.
Trend 8: Environmental protection and water knowledge graph helps to capitalize data elements
In the era of digital economy, data, as the core factor of production, is driving profound changes in the economic form. In order to further improve the digital value mining and digital application capabilities of environmental protection water enterprises, knowledge graph technology is playing a key role. It is expected that in 2024, a group of companies will begin to disclose the volume of their data resources in their "balance sheets", and data will become the core subject matter, leading a new round of assetization innovation. This will not only optimize the decision-making process of enterprises, but also create more business opportunities and value for the environmentally friendly water industry.
Digital practice application: Jin Dongjun, deputy general manager of Yiwu drainage
As a wholly state-owned enterprise integrating R&D and application of environmental protection technology, system design and development, operation and maintenance of drainage facilities, construction and operation and maintenance of sewage treatment system, trenchless repair of pipelines and third-party services.
In the past year, the company has optimized the company's business structure and improved the level of scientific and technological operation and maintenance management through overall digital reform, which has had a lot of positive impacts on production and operation. The most important thing is to solve the far-reaching changes in the practical work needs such as the refined operation and maintenance of the rainwater and sewage pipe network and the scientific scheduling of water volume.
Our company has successively invested more than 2,000 yuan to gradually build a comprehensive management and control system of "smart drainage" with reservoir raw water tracking, urban water supply monitoring, urban water distribution activation, urban rainwater drainage, and urban and rural sewage transportation, and a comprehensive management and control system of urban and rural integration, connecting 6 major water sources, 9 waterworks, 7 rainwater lifting pumping stations, and more than 270 monitoring points, comprehensively researching and judging the trend of the city's water supply and drainage balance, and implementing urban waterlogging disposal in the flood season. Carry out the replacement of high-quality tap water with quality water supply and supplement the urban inland river system, and create a full life cycle management of "one drop of water".
Since 2016, we have continued to invest about 300 million yuan to build a joint dispatch model of "one network and nine plants". Through the three modules of plant and station networking, real-time monitoring and remote scheduling, the interconnection of 9 sewage treatment plants and 18 sewage dispatching pumping stations has been completed, and the sewage pipelines of 14 towns and streets have been woven into a network, which has balanced the contradiction between the pipe network and the plant and station, reasonably allocated the amount of sewage treated by each sewage plant, balanced the quality of the sewage entering the plant, realized the overall dispatch of 280,000 tons of sewage at the same time, fully improved the operation efficiency of each sewage plant facility, and "turned the spare capacity into a whole". Stabilize the operating load of the wastewater plant; At the same time, combined with the platform system data analysis of the operation status of the sewage plant, clarify the peak and valley law of sewage treatment, through reasonable storage, dynamic monitoring, scientific scheduling "three steps", accurately improve the water storage capacity of the pipe network on long-distance transportation, the current sewage pipe network storage capacity of Yiwu has reached 2-30,000 tons, to solve the sewage plant maintenance, pipe network repair, water peak period and other situations of sewage absorption difficulties, to achieve the purpose of environmental protection.
Through the comprehensive layout and the empowerment of industrial science and technology, our drainage company has continuously optimized the dispatching path and realized the upgrading of Yiwu's water industry from the original "single-point, one-way, and single-channel" to "multi-point, two-way, and multi-channel" to meet the needs of more complex industries.
Trend 9: Real-time collaboration of IoT data helps water enterprises build virtual water plants
In the context of the dual carbon goals, water saving, energy conservation and drug saving have become the key elements for environmental protection water enterprises to achieve carbon neutrality. With the help of the Internet of Things (IoT) and digital twin technology, the real-time collaboration of IoT data will promote water utilities to build virtual water plants and further optimize the production efficiency of water production equipment and green processes. In addition, this model can also match supply and demand in the pipe network and secondary water supply, effectively reduce carbon emissions and energy consumption, and improve the environmental protection and social responsibility of enterprises.
Trend 10: Smart water meters have become an important part of the Internet of smart home industry
Water is a vital necessity and is closely linked to everyone's health and quality of life. Under the trend of the Internet of Everything, smart water meters play an increasingly important role in the Internet of smart home industry, and their functions far exceed traditional meter reading and billing. The smart water meter has communication and computing capabilities, and can realize multiple composite functions such as water quality monitoring, flow detection, and water analysis. This not only ensures the safety and comfort of water, but also optimizes water demand and satisfies residents' pursuit of a better life. Therefore, smart water meters will become an indispensable part of the Internet of smart home industry.
Summary: The environmental water technology industry benefits from the technological advancement of the Internet of Things and sensors, and is able to monitor and provide first-class data in real time, which provides support for a new data-driven and AI-driven operating model, which will further improve the operational efficiency of environmental protection water assets. Environmental water technology companies urgently need to achieve technological breakthroughs and improve data processing capabilities to adapt to the changes of the new era and solve uncertainties. The new technological revolution will bring challenges and opportunities, combining the traditional characteristics of environmental protection water, people's livelihood needs, market changes and technological attributes.