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There are currently 98,000 reservoirs across the country, with small reservoirs accounting for over 95% of the total. Most of these small reservoirs are located in remote mountainous areas and lack dedicated management staff. The common reality is that "someone built them, but no one takes care of them." In addition, aging infrastructure and fragile environmental conditions make these reservoirs highly vulnerable to extreme rainfall, often leading to significant ecological damage in surrounding areas.

The Ministry of Water Resources has clearly stated the need to "innovate management models and promote professional, socialized operation and maintenance." It also emphasizes the digital, networked, and intelligent management of key tasks such as responsible personnel assignment, routine inspections, safety assessments, hidden hazard detection and remediation, maintenance, reservoir area management, and operational scheduling. To meet these goals, building a digital operation and maintenance management platform for reservoirs is essential. **WideIOT** provides highly reliable and efficient IoT solutions to support this transformation.

To address the need for high efficiency and low cost in small reservoir management, WideIOT offers a solution combining **industrial IoT RTU devices** with an **operation and maintenance management platform**. This enables comprehensive management of multiple small reservoirs, allowing one centralized team to carry out intelligent operations and maintenance across all of them.

The WideIOT RTU devices are equipped with multiple I/O ports, serial ports, and Ethernet ports, enabling real-time data collection on water levels, flow rates, rainfall, dam deformation, and more. They also provide network access for surveillance cameras, enabling automated data collection in reservoir areas and significantly reducing labor costs and manual workload.

The operation and maintenance management platform receives and processes the data, presenting it through a visual dashboard that displays real-time operational information, alerts, and maintenance work orders for each small reservoir. This allows managers to allocate personnel and resources more effectively. After receiving alerts via SMS, email, or WeChat, managers can quickly create inspection or maintenance work orders and assign them to field staff. Maintenance personnel log their actions in real time, and those logs can be reviewed and approved. This creates a fully digitalized O&M workflow where all data is traceable and measurable, helping teams continuously improve their practices and boost efficiency.

By implementing this operation and maintenance management system for small reservoirs, service providers can manage a larger portfolio with fewer people and resources. Issues can be detected and resolved quickly, ensuring reservoir safety, flood control, water supply security, and more. Ultimately, this enables precision maintenance, cost reduction, efficiency gains, digital transformation, and high-quality development — achieving multiple goals at once.