IOT News

Industry Background

In recent years, with the ongoing advancement of industrialization and urbanization in China, aggregates—as essential raw materials for concrete and mortar—have been widely used in infrastructure projects such as construction, transportation, and water conservancy. This has created favorable conditions for the rapid growth of the crushing and screening equipment industry, with more and more factories embracing smart manufacturing.
Moreover, as the market matures and industry concentration continues to rise, crushing and screening equipment—as key profit-generating assets for downstream sectors such as mining equipment manufacturers—presents certain challenges. These include long production, logistics, and installation/commissioning cycles, relatively slow turnover, and high customer expectations for after-sales maintenance and support. In the long run, equipment manufacturers cannot afford to overlook intelligent aftermarket services.

Industry Pain Points

Equipment is often located in remote areas with harsh environmental conditions. When faults occur, manufacturers are frequently unable to respond in time, impacting operational efficiency and profitability—highlighting the need for remote maintenance capabilities.
Large numbers of widely distributed devices create data silos, making it impossible to perceive equipment status or detect faults in real time—requiring a remote monitoring and digital management system.
Critical equipment data remains underutilized, maintenance resources are not optimally allocated, and service quality fails to improve—demanding intelligent analysis and integrated management of diverse data resources.

Solution Overview

WideIOT offers an IoT solution for remote monitoring and maintenance of crushers based on industrial smart gateways. The gateways collect equipment data from crusher PLCs and upload it to cloud platforms, enabling online monitoring, fault alerts, maintenance work orders, data analytics, remote control, and remote maintenance for distributed assets. This solution enhances market competitiveness and after-sales service quality, helping manufacturers deliver more responsive and customized services to their customers.

System Functions

Data Acquisition – The gateways collect real-time crusher operating data—including rotational speed, temperature, pressure, voltage, and current—and upload it to cloud or local servers via 5G/4G/Wi-Fi/Ethernet.
Remote Monitoring – Users can view equipment maps and data dashboards on PCs or mobile devices, gaining real-time visibility into crusher location, operating status, and alarm data, with quick query and management capabilities.
Fault Alerting – Configurable alarm rules and notification methods automatically trigger alerts and generate maintenance work orders when crusher faults are detected, with notifications via WeChat, SMS, or email.
Remote Control – Users can send control commands to remote PLCs for remote start/stop and parameter adjustments, enabling timely optimization of crusher operation and improving work efficiency.
Remote Maintenance – Through the Remote Maintenance Tunnel, engineers can perform remote PLC programming, debugging, and program upload/download without traveling to the site—reducing maintenance costs and improving service responsiveness.
Data Analytics – Intelligent analysis of operational, alarm, and energy consumption data provides reliable insights for quality improvement, efficiency enhancement, and energy savings—supporting timely and informed decision-making.