What Is the Future Development Direction of Smart Water?
In recent years, the concept of smart water affairs has been proposed, and the smart transformation of traditional water affairs has become an inevitable trend. Smart Water can monitor the city's water supply and discharge online and perceive it in real-time through data acquisition instruments, wireless networks, water quality, water pressure meters, and other equipment, and effectively integrate water management and drainage water meters through visualization methods. The "Urban Water Affairs Internet of Things" is formed, and the massive water affairs information can be analyzed and processed in time. And make corresponding processing results to assist decision-making suggestions, and manage the entire production, management, and service process of the water system in a more refined and dynamic way, so as to achieve a "smart" state and become an effective part of a smart city.
Is the current smart water service smart enough? It can be seen from the above that smart water has completed automation and realized intelligence, and future development needs to be more intelligent and intelligent.
In simple terms, automation is the process of automatic detection, information processing, analysis and judgment, manipulation and control of machinery, equipment, systems, production, and management processes to achieve the expected goals without the direct participation of people or fewer people, according to the requirements of people. This stage is mainly reflected in the automatic collection of water information. For example, Smart Water collects data through equipment, which effectively replaces the repetitive labor of humans. The intelligent stage refers to the ability to effectively analyze the existing data, convert it into effective information, and assist in the formation of decision-making. Intelligence is the further improvement of informatization. In the informatization stage, only data collection and simple information utilization can be performed. The intelligent stage is like adding judgment to the machine with the support of a network, big data, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and other technologies, which can effectively judge the use of data. For example, in the intelligent stage of smart water affairs, not only can effective information be analyzed in the massive water affairs data to provide decision-makers with auxiliary decision-making, but also can be combined with the control module in the system to realize automatic control.
Compared with intelligence, intelligence will have more "insight" and "judgment” and can analyze and make decisions based on existing data. However, the current stage of smart water affairs is still a long way from being smart, and there is still a lot of room for development in terms of informatization and intelligence. Driven by high-tech technologies such as big data, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence, the development of smart water affairs will become more and more intelligent.
