Focus on the thirteenth five-year plan for the water meter industry

[China Instrument Network Instrument Conference] On Thursday, the 2016 Working Conference of the China Metering Association's Water Meter Working Committee's Smart Metering Technology Working Group was held in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province. The meeting was organized by the Water Metering Committee's "Smart Water Metering Technology Working Group." Present at the meeting are Lin Zhiliang, deputy director of the Water Metering Working Committee, Yao Ling, head of the Technical Working Group of the Secretary-General, Smart Water Meters, and Wei Qinghua, deputy leader of the Water Metering Technology Group, and Zhao Jianliang, director of the Zhejiang Metrology Institute. Xiaobian had the privilege of listening to experts together to listen to the huge amount of information on this day's conference, covering the “Twelfth Five-Year” work summary, the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan”, the Huawei Wireless Communication Technology Report, the topic of wireless communications and the topic of Ultrasound. "Cold water meter" national metrological verification procedures and revised version of the draft specification review and so on. Today, Xiao Bian has compiled the "13th Five-Year Plan for Development of China's Water Meter Industry" to sort out the most useful information for the water meter circle for everyone to browse.

a set of data

Over the past five years, the production and sales volume of most water meter companies have both increased by more than double digits, and especially the smart water meter products and application systems have seen a pleasing growth.

In 2015, the number of export water meters in China was approximately 22.43 million units, and the value of export transactions was 191.08 million US dollars, which was 30.6% and 19.5% higher than the 17.18 million units and 15.38 million US dollars held in 2011 respectively.

In 2015, many water meter manufacturers in the industry had sales of smart water meters and application systems. The proportion of smart water meters and mechanical water meters increased from 13.3% in 2013 to 26.8% in 2014, and the total sales revenue also had a large margin. improve.

Priority to develop new products and technologies

• Strengthen the research and development of high-performance ultrasonic water meters, electromagnetic water meters, jet water meters, and other product designs, processes, equipment, measurement technologies, and reliability test methods.

• Intensify basic research and technological research to ensure the performance indicators and long-term stability and reliability of smart meter 2.0 products and meet the requirements of users.

• The application and research and development of smart meter wireless communication and network access technology should focus on and do the following: 1. Self-organizing wireless local area network (WLAN), wireless wide area network (such as LoRa technology) and wireless cellular network (such as Applications and R&D of Internet access technologies such as NB-IOT technology: 2 Conduct research on low power consumption, reliability, and security during data transmission.

• Carry out comprehensive application and research of "Internet intelligent water meter" technology.

• Conditional companies can plan the study of smart meter network monitoring and control and information-based Internet applications featuring smart terminals (water meters and related sensors) big data, cloud computing, wireless data transmission, and pipe network monitoring and control theory. Select the pilot project.

• Improve the performance of high-performance impeller mechanical water meters.

The "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan"

• Through continuous efforts, domestic sales of water meters, domestic sales revenue, export volume, and export delivery value will increase by 20%, 60%, 30%, and 40% on a 2015 basis.

• The sales revenue of smart water meters (including smart application systems) accounts for 40% of all water meter sales.

• The number of industrial invention patents and software copyright filings should be increased by more than double the 2015 level.

• Preside over and participate in the revision of more than 5 national standards and ministries and commissions industry standards, and make and revise more than 3 internal standards in the water meter industry.

• Water meter product performance indicators fully meet the requirements of revised national water meter product standards.

• The qualified rate of water meter products in the country remained above 98%.

Table Industry Expandable Industry Direction

In fact, at present, some water meter companies are already entering the field of smart water supply and even smart water, and they are involved in the aspects of water and water supply automation, scientific dispatch water management of pipelines, water leakage monitoring and positioning of pipelines, online water quality monitoring, and application of GIS systems. In addition to measuring drinking water, some of the water meter companies have been involved in irrigation water for farmland, fire fighting water, heating water, and direct drinking water metering.

I must mention the Internet of Things

The original “Wireless Network Access Technology for Terminal Metering is a key technology for IoT in smart water applications. With the deep cooperation of wireless communication equipment manufacturers and network operators and the active cooperation of meter manufacturing companies, this technology has There is a big breakthrough. In the near future, the desire of smart terminals for low-cost, low-power access to wireless public networks will also become a reality. In fact, during the meeting, experts have repeatedly stressed that water meters should have network access. The function, after ensuring the performance of the water meter itself and the process and so on, will give communication, transmission and other functions to the professional operators. In the collision and cooperation of the two industries, they will perform their duties in order to take the Internet of Things meter. road.

Conclusion Water meter industry organization through the establishment of "smart water meter technology working group" this technical institution, effectively promoted the construction of the water meter industry technical standards system, the need for the development of standards and key technologies and industry common research work. Listening to the report of the experts of the working group and the lively discussions of the delegates, people can not help but feel that no matter how frustrating the water meter ring is, how the various forces are surging, and some people are quietly doing things for the industry, hoping that the industry will develop better.

(Original title: Xiao Bian helps you sort out the "13th Five-Year Development Plan Outline for China's Water Meter Industry")

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