Technology
Municipalities
mostly hesitate to introduce an image monitoring system to their water supply
plants because a 10-20 million yen investment is required. They currently
explore the cause of unusual values of the water quality meter only by values
without images. Metawater and Nippon Telecommunications Network jointly developed
a very inexpensive image monitoring system for water supply plants. It costs
only several hundred thousand yen to introduce, one hundredth of the cost
required to introduce the conventional system. The company succeeded in
reducing the cost of filming equipment by employing the image processing method
with lower communication load and eliminating the necessity of special-purpose
terminals because staff members can monitor the image using the existing PCs
with the help of cloud computing.
Units
made up of camera and communication device are installed in a water supply
plant and staff members monitor image data through the cloud computing service
provided by Nippon Telecommunications Network. Metawater employed the processing
technology to change still images to moving images to reduce the load
associated with filming and communication. LAN is used for the communication in
the initial stage, but later a wireless communication environment will be
established to make it possible to eliminate the expense for wiring and set the
unit wherever an outlet is available. The newly developed system is designed
for the monitoring of water quality of rivers and water purification plants.
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