On July 18th, China Mobile Tianjin and Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city Smart City Center jointly announced the deployment of Mobile's 5G network in Tianjin, and it has achieved grounded application results in smart water meters!

With the strong support of Tianjin City, Tianjin Mobile has built and opened more than 500 5G base stations throughout the city. In 2019, Tianjin Mobile's investment scale will exceed 1 billion yuan to build large-scale infrastructure and promote the full coverage of the 5G network of 4,500 communities and 4.6 million households in Tianjin.

On June 6, 2019, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued 5G official commercial licenses to 4 companies, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Radio and Television. China skips pre-commercial licenses and directly issues official 5G commercial licenses, becoming the fifth country to announce 5G commercialization after South Korea, the United States, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, and it ranks among the first 5G echelon!

Different from 2G initiation data, 3G initiation data, and 4G development data, 5G is a cross-age technology. In addition to a more extreme experience and greater capacity, 5G will also open the era of the Internet of Everything and penetrate into various industries.

In the era of the Internet of Things, the energy meter reading industry still has the following "pain points". First, the network coverage is poor. Smart meters are usually installed in a closed environment, and network signals are often difficult to guarantee. If the network signal amplification scheme is used, it will bring new problems such as signal interference. Second, massive access. At present, the consumption of water, electricity, gas, and heating meters is huge, and the number of connections to a single base station in the traditional cellular network is limited, which makes it difficult to meet the large number of smart meter connection needs. Third, the security is poor. The smart meter reading equipment commonly used in the market still faces many security challenges, such as the theft and copying of IC cards, the communication security of public network transmission (data theft, network attacks, data tampering, etc.), and the general adaptation of private transmission protocols for energy companies Problems such as low level of security and safety protection.

Although the Internet of Things faces many development challenges in the field of smart meter reading, all of these will be solved with the advent of 5G. Relying on the advantages of 5G high speed, ubiquitous network, low power consumption, and low latency, Xintian Technology will deploy 5G technology in the fields of smart water and smart gas, and realize live broadcast of energy operation, data synchronization and other functions, so that energy management and control companies can timely Make smart decisions, speed up the informatization level of smart meter reading and smart energy management and control, and truly experience the digital and intelligent services of energy management and control brought by the Internet of Things technology.

At present, in the Phoenix Community, Hexi District, Tianjin, there are already 5G network-based matrix NB-IoT smart water meters in retrofit applications. This will realize the cloud monitoring of water usage data, smart meter reading, and at the same time, you can complete the livelihood services such as purchase and warranty through the mobile phone APP with the "touch" of your fingertips.

In recent years, driven by policy, market and other driving factors, smart meter reading can be said to have developed rapidly. In 2015, the “Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Development of Smart Grids” issued by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Energy Administration clearly pointed out that it is necessary to support the collection of water, electricity, and gas meters, build an integrated platform for cross-industry energy operation dynamic data, and encourage energy and information foundations Sharing of facilities.

Therefore, companies in the energy sector are transforming to the field of smart meter reading. For example, the State Grid has listed the construction of "four meters in one", which realizes centralized and automatic data collection of four meters of water, electricity, gas, and heating, as one of the ten key tasks. It can be said that in the 5G era, smart meter reading and smart energy management represented by smart water meters and smart gas meters have unlimited market prospects.