The importance of NB-IoT water meters is highlighted, accounting for a large proportion of the smart water industry

With the development of Internet of Things technology, my country's water meter field has also kept pace with the times and ushered in changes. With the help of various technologies such as the Internet of Things, our country has realized the transformation from traditional mechanical water meters to NB- Application of IoT smart water meters.

NB-IoT technology has begun to be used in intelligent remote meter reading in water companies, DMA zone metering in urban water supply pipe networks and the establishment of pipe networks due to its characteristics of wide coverage, large connections, and low power consumption. The leakage pipe network system has been widely used in the field of informatization and intelligence, and the benefits it brings are also obvious.

First of all, leakage analysis is realized through gridding of water meters, real-time monitoring, and rapid location of pipe network problems, thereby reducing leakage. Secondly, through remote automatic meter reading, we can eliminate phenomena such as disturbing residents, "inaccurate readings", and "valuation" caused by manual meter reading, improve the service level of water companies, and at the same time reduce the labor costs of water companies.

With the continuous popularization of 5G technology, the advantages of NB-IoT Internet of Things water meters have become increasingly obvious, and the growth trend will be obvious in the next few years. Sanchuan Wisdom said in response to investors' questions: "Judging from the current situation, NB-IoT Internet of Things water meters have become a mainstream product in the market. The development of NB-IoT affects the smart water meter market structure and corporate focus."

On May 7, the General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Notice on Further Promoting the Comprehensive Development of the Mobile Internet of Things" stating that it will promote the convergence of NB-IoT module prices with 2G modules and guide new IoT terminals to NB-IoT and Cat1 migration; create a number of NB-IoT application benchmark projects and NB-IoT million-level connection scale application scenarios.

Recently, there is news that China Mobile and Ningshui Group will conduct in-depth cooperation in the field of NB-IoT meter reading. Ningshui Group has successfully solved difficult and pain points for customers through the product model of using NB-IoT wireless smart water meters as smart metering terminal access platform software, and realized functions such as centralized water meter reading, online monitoring, big data analysis, and water affairs information applications.

According to rough estimates, the number of NB-IoT water meters currently installed and about to be shipped has exceeded 10 million, making it at the forefront of the vertical industry.

Industry analysts believe that with the official commercialization of 5G, relying onThe technical characteristics of 5G technology such as high bandwidth, low latency and large connections, combined with NB-IoT, will bring better technical solutions and richer application scenarios to the development of smart water services.

Some institutions predict that the overall NB-IoT market will reach US$52.5 billion in 2020, and the application side will be US$40.9 billion. In policy guidance, standard unification, base station matching, cost reduction, etc. Under the joint promotion of favorable conditions, the market space of nearly 100 billion in NB-IoT applications is expected to be accelerated. As an important application scenario, NB-IoT smart water meters are expected to occupy "half of the water meter industry".

　(Original title: NB-IoT water meters are about to occupy "half of the water meter industry")