Smart Gas Repair-Reporting Management Using Predictive Maintenance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing gas repair-reporting management systems struggle to balance call center efficiency with user waiting costs, leading to inefficiencies in handling repair-reporting issues and potential safety risks.

Innovation Solution

An IoT system for gas repair-reporting management based on a smart gas call center, which uses historical data from smart gas sensors to identify and generate first and second gas repair-reporting areas, predict future repair needs, and optimize maintenance personnel allocation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If traditional gas repair-reporting management is used, then call center efficiency is maintained, but user waiting costs increase and repair response time is delayed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser waiting costVSAvoidcall center efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by predicting future gas repair-reporting data and generating maintenance personnel arrangement plans in advance. The smart gas management platform uses historical data to forecast repair needs, divides service areas, and pre-arranges maintenance personnel before actual repair requests occur, thereby reducing user waiting time while maintaining call center efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Speed

If more maintenance personnel are allocated, then repair response speed improves, but resource allocation efficiency deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverepair response speedVSAvoidresource allocation efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies local quality by dividing the service area into multiple regions based on historical repair data and predicting future repair needs for each specific area. Maintenance personnel are allocated differently according to the specific characteristics and repair demand of each local region, ensuring optimal response speed in high-demand areas while avoiding resource waste in low-demand areas.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes parameters by dynamically adjusting maintenance personnel allocation based on predicted repair-reporting data. The smart gas management platform uses historical data to forecast future repair volumes and modifies personnel arrangement plans accordingly, allowing flexible resource allocation that responds to changing repair demands without permanent overstaffing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Measurement precision

If repair-reporting data is collected and analyzed, then maintenance accuracy improves, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemaintenance accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an intermediary - the smart gas management platform - that collects, processes, and analyzes repair-reporting data from the smart gas sensor network platform. This intermediary layer handles the complexity of data collection and analysis, generating predictive insights and maintenance plans while keeping the overall system architecture manageable and the user interface simple.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS12314886B2Methods and internet of things systems for gas repair-reporting management based on call centers of smart gas
Publication Date: 2025.05.27 CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

The present disclosure provides methods and Internet of Things (IoT) systems for gas repair-reporting management based on a call center of smart gas. The method includes obtaining historical gas use data and historical gas repair-reporting data; generating, based on the historical gas use data and the historical gas repair-reporting data, first gas repair-reporting areas; generating, at least based on the historical gas use data and the historical gas repair-reporting data of the first gas repair-reporting areas, future gas repair-reporting data of the first gas repair-reporting areas; generating, based on the first gas repair-reporting areas and the future gas repair-reporting data of the first gas repair-reporting areas, second gas repair-reporting areas and future gas repair-reporting data corresponding to the second gas repair-reporting areas; and generating, based on the future gas repair-reporting data of the second gas repair-reporting areas, a maintenance personnel arrangement plan.