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A chemical plant faced challenges such as inefficient energy utilization, low equipment utilization, and rough manual meter reading. To address these issues, the plant implemented several digital energy‑saving retrofits, achieving multiple benefits including waste‑to‑value, energy savings, and efficiency gains. Key measures included recovering high‑temperature steam to drive idle steam turbines for power generation, and recovering surplus steam to provide heat for production. These steps effectively reduced energy costs and improved energy efficiency.

However, the plant’s energy management system was still based on local monitoring plus manual meter reading, resulting in heavy workloads, low efficiency, slow data aggregation, and difficult decision‑making. As a result, energy statistics and cost accounting remained rough, and the benefits of energy savings could not be properly uated. Therefore, the plant needed an information management system capable of automatic energy data collection, automatic reporting, and visualized management. WideIOT provides a highly reliable IoT solution.

Solution Overview

1. Data collection and transmission

By deploying energy data acquisition gateways connected to flow meters, temperature sensors, PLC controllers, smart electricity meters, and other devices across various pipelines, the system collects real‑time data such as recovered steam flow, steam temperature, turbine operating status, power generation, and electricity consumption. Data is transmitted to the energy management platform via 5G/4G/WiFi/Ethernet.

2. Centralized energy management platform

The platform receives and parses all energy data, displaying it through visual dashboards. It enables statistics on energy usage by equipment and workshop, steam flow by pipeline, alarm reports, energy consumption reports, and more. This supports scientific and rational decision‑making to ensure stable equipment operation and energy efficiency.

3. Remote monitoring and quick response

Managers can remotely monitor equipment operating status and energy consumption data using mobile phones, computers, or shop floor displays. They receive alarm notifications for equipment failures, excessive energy use, and other anomalies, allowing rapid fault location and diagnosis. They can then respond on‑site or remotely control PLCs, improving emergency response capabilities and ensuring safe and reliable production.