IoT Gas Meter Identification via Sensor Network Platform
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in finding and querying their gas meters, especially when identification labels are missing or fallen off, leading to inconvenient balance inquiries and recharges.
Innovation Solution
A gas meter query method utilizing a compound IoT system, where gas meters communicate through a sensor network platform to a management platform, sending identification and balance data, and triggering prompt information to users via service sub-platforms, including indicator lamps for easy identification and low-balance alerts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If gas meters are set up together for unified management, then management efficiency is improved, but user identification of their own gas meter becomes difficult when labels are missing or fallen off
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system consisting of a query terminal, management server, and gas meter network. When a user cannot identify their gas meter through traditional labels, they can use the query terminal to input account information, and the system will guide them to the correct gas meter through audio-visual prompts, thus resolving the identification difficulty while maintaining unified management
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical label-based identification system with an electronic information system. Instead of relying on physical labels that can fall off or become illegible, the system uses electronic account verification and audio-visual guidance to identify and locate the correct gas meter, providing a more reliable identification mechanism
2Ease of manufacture
If traditional label-based identification is used on gas meters, then manufacturing simplicity is maintained, but reliability of user identification deteriorates when labels fall off or are not set
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces a management server as an intermediary that stores and verifies gas meter identification information. Instead of relying solely on physical labels, the server acts as a reliable database that can accurately match user account information with the correct gas meter, ensuring identification reliability without complicating the physical gas meter structure
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates an electronic copy of the gas meter identification information in the management server's database. This digital copy serves as a backup and verification mechanism, allowing the system to reliably identify gas meters even when physical labels are missing or damaged, without requiring additional physical identification components on the gas meters themselves
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AI summary
The present invention provides a gas meter query method based on a compound Internet of Things (IoT) and an IoT system, and relates to the field of the IoT. The method includes: sending, by the first gas meter of a plurality of gas meters, when reading the data information corresponding to the second gas meter, the data information to the management platform via the sensor network platform; sending, by the management platform, the first control signal to the second gas meter via the sensor network platform, so that the second gas meter sends the first prompt information; sending the second prompt information to at least one of a plurality of service sub-platforms; and sending, by one of the service sub-platforms that receives the second prompt information, the second prompt information to the user sub-platform corresponding to the second gas meter.