World Electric Technology Smart Factory Energy Consumption Management IoT Solution

I. Current Status and Needs of Factory Energy Consumption Management

In recent years, with the vigorous development of China's industrial sector, factories have become major contributors to overall societal energy consumption and emissions. The call for building resource-efficient factories is growing increasingly urgent. Currently, most domestic factory buildings and workshops rely on manual, periodic meter reading to collect statistics on electricity and energy consumption. The current state of factory management and control is as follows:

• Factories are often spread over large areas with numerous pieces of equipment. Equipment inspection is typically performed by workers based on basic device display data and external appearance, resulting in relatively crude equipment management. The internal operating status of equipment and potential issues affecting normal operation cannot be understood in a timely manner.
• There are numerous energy measurement points, various types of energy media, and these points are scattered across different workshops. Long-term reliance on manual meter reading for statistics is both labor-intensive and inefficient.
• The energy measurement information obtained manually is limited, and the processing cycle is long. Consequently, a series of problems such as significant energy waste cannot be detected promptly, preventing the implementation of reasonable corrective measures.

By adopting IoT communication technology, it is possible to monitor the dynamic energy consumption information of an entire factory online. This energy consumption data can be integrated with corresponding equipment data, allowing on-site operational managers to understand and grasp key information such as the real-time energy consumption status, unit energy consumption data, energy consumption trends, and real-time operating parameters of critical equipment.
Based on its core IoT gateway and communication technologies, West-HN Technology has launched a smart factory energy management and control IoT hardware solution.

II. IoT Solution for Smart Factory Energy Consumption Management and Control

The West-HN Technology Smart Factory Energy Consumption Management and Control Solution is based on the C300 gateway. It connects downstream to energy consumption and environmental sensors, as well as terminal control devices, enabling intelligent management and control of factory electrical equipment and utilities such as water, electricity, and gas. Through optimization of control strategies, it helps avoid energy waste.

Primary Objectives of the Solution

• Deploy IoT communication gateways to cover the entire factory building and premises. Uplink supports 4G/Ethernet, downlink supports ZigBee/LoRa/RS485, enabling connectivity with terminals using various wireless and wired technologies.
• Achieve online monitoring, automatic collection, and storage of various energy consumption data and energy efficiency indicators, providing flexible and diverse query methods. It can offer hybrid wireless (ZigBee/LoRa) and wired (RS485) networking solutions for water, electricity, and gas monitoring. For existing on-site equipment, wireless or wired RS485 serial connections can be used for data upload.
• Provide various environmental data collection sensors tailored to each factory's environment, including temperature, humidity, illumination, carbon dioxide concentration, and other environmental parameters.
• For special equipment within the factory that requires switching control or data acquisition, provide wireless serial port and digital I/O control devices to enable remote switching control.

III. Introduction to Hainan West-HN Technology Co., Ltd.

With the vision of "Making Standardization of Industrial IoT Simpler," Hainan West-HN Technology Co., Ltd. focuses on the IoT industry chain. It continuously conducts R&D in the fields of indoor positioning, sensing control, and data transmission products. Adopting a "Lego-like" production approach, it precisely meets the characteristic needs of the industrial IoT market for small-batch, high-variety products. The company provides solutions for complex environments and personalized requirements, truly realizing a new supply-demand relationship characterized by low inventory and high fulfillment.

The company has R&D centers in Shanghai, Suzhou, Chengdu, and Taipei. Building upon the group's nearly 40 years of strong commercial resources and reputation, it adheres to the business philosophy of "Being Experts in the Industry." It excels in channels, is sensitive to the market, and focuses on products, ensuring they are "reliable in R&D," "stable in production," and "quality in sales." The company remains dedicated to the ultimate satisfaction of personalized scenario requirements for industrial IoT clients.

Regarding products, we have Zigbee positioning products developed by our in-house team over more than a decade, as well as UWB positioning products developed by teams in Shanghai and Taipei, catering to different customer needs for positioning accuracy. Simultaneously, the company also introduces Bluetooth positioning products to complement its self-developed solutions, aiming to comprehensively meet the needs of various clients.

In terms of software support, we integrate overall solutions from various industries, actively open interfaces and source code for system integrators to join, and facilitate related software companies in creating case demonstrations based on our products. This aims to broaden the application of IoT indoor positioning.