5G for AIoT: smart sewage treatment plant established on campus
2021-11-29
The cross-campus University Research Center for Wireless Broadband Communication Protocols at National Sun Yat-sen University has built the only 5G Campus Experimental Network Demonstration Site among universities in southern Taiwan and successfully integrated 5G networks and Artificial Intelligence Internet-of-Things (AIoT) to create a smart sewage treatment plant, allowing supervisors to monitor sewage treatment process and ensure proper water quality online using a smartphone or tablet.
“NSYSU is the only university in southern Taiwan that has established a 5G campus experimental networks,” said Professor Tsang-Ling Sheu of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Director of the cross-campus University Research Center for Wireless Broadband Communication Protocols at NSYSU. Only 3 universities in Taiwan have been approved for the 5G Campus Experimental Network Demonstration Project of the Ministry of Education: NSYSU, National Taiwan University, and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. In addition to a 5G network room on campus and a 5G experimental site, NSYSU applied 5G AIoT to create a smart sewage treatment plant.
Director Tsang-Ling Sheu said that in the past, when the wastewater treatment plant was managed manually, the management staff had to visit the plant every day to read the electricity and water meters to know whether the electricity supply for the plant was in good order, check the amount of domestic sewage on campus, and see the handheld water quality sensor to know the pH value of wastewater. The cross-campus University Research Center for Wireless Broadband Communication Protocols established the 5G Artificial Intelligence for Internet-of-Things (5G AIoT) Platform for the campus sewage treatment plant, and successfully smartified its management.
He pointed out that this system was developed by postgraduate students of the Department of Electrical Engineering he supervises and that it is different from other smart sewage treatment plants, as it eliminates the trouble of on-site wiring thanks to the integration of 5G and AIoT. Even more importantly, the system allows real-time transfer of huge amounts of data from the plant’s digital electricity meters, flow sensors, and water quality sensors thanks to 5G network to the management platform for the supervisors to monitor the condition of the sewage treatment plant at any time. In case of abnormalities, the system will also send warning messages to remind the management staff to solve the problem as soon as possible.
The cross-campus University Research Center for Wireless Broadband Communication Protocols at NSYSU, besides the establishment of 5G experimental sites on campus for smart sewage treatment plant, 5G monitoring for shore safety and automatic drone patrol, smartifying the campus environment of NSYSU. Next, it will hold the first 5G Campus Experimental Area: Innovative Applications Competition to encourage undergraduates and postgraduates across the country to conduct technological research for innovations using 5G communication and network technologies, in the hope of nurturing more 5G mobile network talents for Taiwan.
The cross-campus University Research Center for Wireless Broadband Communication Protocols at National Sun Yat-sen University has built the only 5G Campus Experimental Network Demonstration Site among universities in southern Taiwan and successfully integrated 5G networks and Artificial Intelligence Internet-of-Things (AIoT) to create a smart sewage treatment plant, allowing supervisors to monitor sewage treatment process and ensure proper water quality online using a smartphone or tablet.
“NSYSU is the only university in southern Taiwan that has established a 5G campus experimental networks,” said Professor Tsang-Ling Sheu of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Director of the cross-campus University Research Center for Wireless Broadband Communication Protocols at NSYSU. Only 3 universities in Taiwan have been approved for the 5G Campus Experimental Network Demonstration Project of the Ministry of Education: NSYSU, National Taiwan University, and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. In addition to a 5G network room on campus and a 5G experimental site, NSYSU applied 5G AIoT to create a smart sewage treatment plant.
Director Tsang-Ling Sheu said that in the past, when the wastewater treatment plant was managed manually, the management staff had to visit the plant every day to read the electricity and water meters to know whether the electricity supply for the plant was in good order, check the amount of domestic sewage on campus, and see the handheld water quality sensor to know the pH value of wastewater. The cross-campus University Research Center for Wireless Broadband Communication Protocols established the 5G Artificial Intelligence for Internet-of-Things (5G AIoT) Platform for the campus sewage treatment plant, and successfully smartified its management.
He pointed out that this system was developed by postgraduate students of the Department of Electrical Engineering he supervises and that it is different from other smart sewage treatment plants, as it eliminates the trouble of on-site wiring thanks to the integration of 5G and AIoT. Even more importantly, the system allows real-time transfer of huge amounts of data from the plant’s digital electricity meters, flow sensors, and water quality sensors thanks to 5G network to the management platform for the supervisors to monitor the condition of the sewage treatment plant at any time. In case of abnormalities, the system will also send warning messages to remind the management staff to solve the problem as soon as possible.
The cross-campus University Research Center for Wireless Broadband Communication Protocols at NSYSU, besides the establishment of 5G experimental sites on campus for smart sewage treatment plant, 5G monitoring for shore safety and automatic drone patrol, smartifying the campus environment of NSYSU. Next, it will hold the first 5G Campus Experimental Area: Innovative Applications Competition to encourage undergraduates and postgraduates across the country to conduct technological research for innovations using 5G communication and network technologies, in the hope of nurturing more 5G mobile network talents for Taiwan.
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