Recently, a news about the upcoming wireless meter in New York attracted the author's attention. New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced that it will install 826,000 wireless meters in the city by 2011. Although the entire meter wireless system is expected to cost US$250 million, this wireless meter system not only sends data to the receiver on the roof every six hours, but also the Environmental Protection Agency DEP that is responsible for water fee collection. This monthly fee is charged to the user and it is reported that the bill will also be sent via the Internet. According to the estimates of the New York Times, the system will be able to reduce water consumption by 5% to 10% and save up to US$90 million annually.
This plan, relying on wireless communication technology, can be said that regardless of the improvement of urban construction or the quality of life of citizens, whether it is to save water in a macro sense, or to achieve the manpower savings, the reduction of interference with residents' lives, The micro-levels such as the reduction of paper consumption on the Internet sent bills are of great practical significance.
If you jump out of the wireless water meter itself, then the New York wireless water meter's move will undoubtedly be worth thinking about the operators of wireless cities and 3G networks that are currently in full swing.
The wireless city is by no means the only way to achieve wireless Internet access in urban areas. The case of New York's wireless water meter deserves our careful consideration. How can we make use of the more advanced technological advances in wireless communication technology to effectively promote urban construction and improve people's quality of life and efficiency?
In the construction of our wireless city, there has never been a shortage of operators. China Mobile is working with Xiamen to build the so-called domestic first TD wireless city. From the point of view of wireless network construction and content construction such as 3G, the focus of operators is still on how to develop value-added services beyond the voice service, and these are often based on the development and application of entertainment content.
The author believes that the development and progress of wireless communication technology can not only solve the problem of upgrading and innovation of value-added services such as entertainment applications, but also affect many aspects of people's livelihood and urban construction development, and they also have to solve some of the problems with wireless. The needs and possibilities of the problem. The New York wireless meter is an example of an enlightenment.
In fact, the technical requirements of wireless water meters are not high, and Israel has also launched the wireless network meter reading system “Dialog3G Systemâ€, which is known as the revolution of traditional meter reading methods. Domestic water company engineers have also developed a direct-reading wireless meter automatic meter reading system and have obtained national patents. However, why did the wireless water meter concept first land in New York? Why is there no such plan as wireless water meter in China? It can be said that this is not just limited to the popularization of technology and practical factors. It is more difficult to surpass the concept. Operators are busy with the construction of wireless networks such as 3G and wireless for wireless cities. Actually, compared with the demand for wireless Internet access, this type of wireless application based on people's livelihood, which can promote urban construction and help improve the quality of life, may be even more Worthy of attention and advocacy.
With the issuance of 3G licenses, the "3G era" has clearly become the most popular keyword this year. It is not only limited to IT communications, but will be more and more popular in the market. However, in the 3G era that has not been formed in the people's dictionary, if it only stays at the level of value-added applications and services such as wireless entertainment and wireless Internet access, it may still lack some depth.
In many cities, the entrance to the train station will have a card to check the passenger's ID. Previously, after showing the certificate or giving out the name, the inspector entered it on the desktop and checked it. The efficiency was not slow. After that, the desktops were replaced with LCDs and the efficiency was not improved. In the past two years, reader terminals connected to computers and hand-held wireless terminals used by the police to carry out mobile inspections in the cars have indeed improved efficiency. However, passengers still need to issue a document when checking. In the future, if this inspection method cannot be avoided, can we rely on the development of wireless network technology to achieve a revolutionary innovation?
It can be said that with the development of digitization and wireless technology, we need more than just innovation and revolution at the voice and non-voice level. Mr. Chang Xiaobing, chairman of China Unicom, who is an outstanding representative of operators, said “in the end who is a value-added service and needs to re-examine†after laughing at the recent IT leaders’ summit and saying that they are voice and non-voice services. The author is happy to hear this confident prediction from the operator. Compared with this, the author prefers to hear and see that in the aspects of improving urban efficiency and improving the quality of life of residents, the technical innovation layout of operators, together with related departments, business operation plans, and new wireless communications that are already open in this In the era, operators have promised and honored social responsibility.
This plan, relying on wireless communication technology, can be said that regardless of the improvement of urban construction or the quality of life of citizens, whether it is to save water in a macro sense, or to achieve the manpower savings, the reduction of interference with residents' lives, The micro-levels such as the reduction of paper consumption on the Internet sent bills are of great practical significance.
If you jump out of the wireless water meter itself, then the New York wireless water meter's move will undoubtedly be worth thinking about the operators of wireless cities and 3G networks that are currently in full swing.
The wireless city is by no means the only way to achieve wireless Internet access in urban areas. The case of New York's wireless water meter deserves our careful consideration. How can we make use of the more advanced technological advances in wireless communication technology to effectively promote urban construction and improve people's quality of life and efficiency?
In the construction of our wireless city, there has never been a shortage of operators. China Mobile is working with Xiamen to build the so-called domestic first TD wireless city. From the point of view of wireless network construction and content construction such as 3G, the focus of operators is still on how to develop value-added services beyond the voice service, and these are often based on the development and application of entertainment content.
The author believes that the development and progress of wireless communication technology can not only solve the problem of upgrading and innovation of value-added services such as entertainment applications, but also affect many aspects of people's livelihood and urban construction development, and they also have to solve some of the problems with wireless. The needs and possibilities of the problem. The New York wireless meter is an example of an enlightenment.
In fact, the technical requirements of wireless water meters are not high, and Israel has also launched the wireless network meter reading system “Dialog3G Systemâ€, which is known as the revolution of traditional meter reading methods. Domestic water company engineers have also developed a direct-reading wireless meter automatic meter reading system and have obtained national patents. However, why did the wireless water meter concept first land in New York? Why is there no such plan as wireless water meter in China? It can be said that this is not just limited to the popularization of technology and practical factors. It is more difficult to surpass the concept. Operators are busy with the construction of wireless networks such as 3G and wireless for wireless cities. Actually, compared with the demand for wireless Internet access, this type of wireless application based on people's livelihood, which can promote urban construction and help improve the quality of life, may be even more Worthy of attention and advocacy.
With the issuance of 3G licenses, the "3G era" has clearly become the most popular keyword this year. It is not only limited to IT communications, but will be more and more popular in the market. However, in the 3G era that has not been formed in the people's dictionary, if it only stays at the level of value-added applications and services such as wireless entertainment and wireless Internet access, it may still lack some depth.
In many cities, the entrance to the train station will have a card to check the passenger's ID. Previously, after showing the certificate or giving out the name, the inspector entered it on the desktop and checked it. The efficiency was not slow. After that, the desktops were replaced with LCDs and the efficiency was not improved. In the past two years, reader terminals connected to computers and hand-held wireless terminals used by the police to carry out mobile inspections in the cars have indeed improved efficiency. However, passengers still need to issue a document when checking. In the future, if this inspection method cannot be avoided, can we rely on the development of wireless network technology to achieve a revolutionary innovation?
It can be said that with the development of digitization and wireless technology, we need more than just innovation and revolution at the voice and non-voice level. Mr. Chang Xiaobing, chairman of China Unicom, who is an outstanding representative of operators, said “in the end who is a value-added service and needs to re-examine†after laughing at the recent IT leaders’ summit and saying that they are voice and non-voice services. The author is happy to hear this confident prediction from the operator. Compared with this, the author prefers to hear and see that in the aspects of improving urban efficiency and improving the quality of life of residents, the technical innovation layout of operators, together with related departments, business operation plans, and new wireless communications that are already open in this In the era, operators have promised and honored social responsibility.