Can the upgrading of water meters promote the "water price ladder"?

Promote the development of intelligent urban water supply systems <br> <br> realize intelligent urban water supply systems, scientific management is the key.

As China's urban water users and water consumption continue to increase, the National Development and Reform Commission has launched a "stepped water price" policy to strengthen the water supply industry's management and user awareness of water conservation. Cities such as Wuhan and Hefei have successively implemented “stepped water prices,” but most urban water supply management still adopts traditional methods. The existing work efficiency cannot support the “stepped water price” that has been advocated, which puts forward even more improvements to our city’s water supply management. High demand.

The “stepped water price” is not only to save water, but more importantly, it is to increase the utilization rate of water and increase the value of water. This is the requirement of intelligent modern cities for water supply systems. However, why are the “stepped water prices” that have been pushed by national policies and people's consciousness down to the slow progress? It is understood that in many areas of China's water fee income still uses the checklist's monthly household inspection and manual charging methods. The accurate data collected in real time, regularly, and successfully requested by the “step water price” cannot be guaranteed — it seems that the technical problem of the water meter is the key to restricting the smooth implementation of the “water price ladder”.

Water meter replacement, can promote the "water price ladder"?

The small water meter witnessed the changes of our urban water supply system. Most people have seen the first generation of water meters—mechanical water meters. They only have statistical data functions and they need to check the water consumption every month. What appeared after this was the second-generation water meter, which is often referred to as a card meter. Compared with mechanical water meters, the second-generation water meter has added intelligent functions, which can pre-store water fees and reduce the cost of water fee management. But there are still fatal flaws: the need for long-term power supply, electronic readings and mechanical readings are prone to error, and vulnerable to interference, weak anti-attack ability.

After summarizing the limitations of the previous two generations of water meters, the "direct-reading smart water meter" no longer requires long-term power supply, and reliability, stability, anti-jamming and anti-attack performance have been greatly improved. However, the position of its digital wheel is uncertain, and the blind area is easy to appear when reading. This directly results in inaccurate readings, and it still cannot guarantee the requirement of “step water price” to accurately record data.

The "third-generation water meter" solves the technical problem of "step water price" and makes the urban water supply system intelligent.

In order to truly solve the technical problems of “stepped water price” and thus ensure the smooth implementation of smart urban water supply systems, we must address the key issues of statistics and management of data. This requires accurate, timely, and timely collection of data on water consumption throughout urban areas. If you still rely on meter-reading workers at this time, you can't read a meter. At the same time, the statistics and analysis of the data should be able to meet the user's requirements for inspection. This also puts forward higher requirements for the back-end management of the water supply system.

In response to the problem of water consumption data collection, Longkang meter has perfected the "direct-reading smart water meter" and introduced a "passive direct-reading water meter without blind area", completely subverting the traditional water meter counting mechanism. To achieve the effect of no blind area counting and accurate direct reading, to achieve a true sense of the "third generation of water meters."

The current "third generation water meter" has the function of timing acquisition and real-time acquisition. Timely collection, that is, the time point for the water meter to set data statistics in advance, then the water meter can automatically record the water consumption of the residents according to the time point, and can be read out when the water company reads the meter. The real-time acquisition means that the “third-generation water meter” freezes and transmits the water meter data, and can be locked at any time for reference. In this way, the water company can use the data collector to send instructions to the water meter to read the number of words on the water meter.

At the same time, through the cell data concentrator, the water consumption of each household can be collected and collected remotely. The meter reader can transmit the water data of the entire community to the water company as long as the meter reader sends instructions to the concentrators in each area, realizing the data. The remote transmission does not require manual copying or entry into the computer.

Without blind area accurate direct reading, real-time acquisition, timing acquisition of the three major features both in order to truly achieve at the same time complete a large number of user data accurate collection and statistics work to ensure the effective implementation of "step water price" and promote the intelligent development of urban water supply system . According to Long Kang, the manufacturer of the “third-generation water meter,” they have already provided 10,000 water meters for free, mainly for cities and communities with high population density. “Now the shortage of water resources is well known. As a water meter manufacturer, it is obligatory to use science and technology to escort the 'stepped water price' to help the intelligent development of the urban water supply system.” said Fan Jun, deputy general manager of Ningbo Longkang Technology Company.