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Anhui Mobile Smart Toilet Operation

Admin September 20, 2026

Anhui Mobile has carried out multiple practices in the operation of smart toilets, achieving efficient management and convenient services for the public through advanced technologies.

I. Construction of a Long-term Management and Protection Platform for Rural Toilets
Anhui Mobile Hefei Branch has constructed a long-term management and protection platform for rural toilets in Feixi County, Hefei City. This platform, centered around IoT and big data technologies, integrates five functional modules:

  1. Digital Toilet Renovation Archives: Establish electronic archives for the renovation of rural households' toilets, enabling traceable information and dynamic updates.
  2. Mobile Reporting for Sewage Pumping and Repairs: Provide convenient channels for reporting repairs and sewage pumping requests through mobile applications, shortening response times.
  3. IoT-based Real-time Monitoring: Deploy sensors to monitor the status of toilet facilities in real-time (such as septic tank levels and equipment operation), ensuring timely alerts for abnormalities.
  4. Work Order-based Task Scheduling: The system automatically generates work orders for repairs and waste removal, optimizing the scheduling process for management and protection personnel and enhancing work efficiency.
  5. Visual Macro-level Control: Display the overall situation of toilet renovations in the region through data dashboards, providing data support for government decision-making.
    This platform achieves triple effects of "convenience for the public, cost-effectiveness for management, and optimized governance for the government": the public can provide feedback on service quality through evaluation mechanisms; standardized management and protection processes reduce management costs; and the government enhances governance precision through intensive data management.

II. Intelligent Operation of Smart Public Toilets
The smart public toilets promoted by Anhui Mobile achieve dynamic resource allocation and early warning responses through multi-dimensional data collection and IoT technologies:

  1. Environmental Sensing Network: Deploy air quality sensors (monitoring indicators such as ammonia and hydrogen sulfide), pedestrian counters, toilet occupancy sensors, and water and electricity metering devices to collect operational data in real-time.
  2. Intelligent Control System: Automatically adjust lighting brightness and ventilation intensity based on pedestrian traffic to reduce energy consumption; monitor the remaining quantities of consumables (such as toilet paper and hand sanitizer) to trigger automatic restocking reminders.
  3. Fault Early Warning Mechanism: When air quality exceeds standards or facilities malfunction, the system immediately generates maintenance work orders and pushes them to management personnel, shortening repair cycles.
  4. City-level Data Aggregation: After aggregating data from individual public toilets, it can analyze regional usage patterns (such as peak hours and popular locations), providing scientific bases for urban planning and public toilet layout optimization.

III. Technological Empowerment and Social Value
Anhui Mobile's practices transform traditional public toilets into urban data nodes, driving the transformation of municipal facilities towards intelligence and service orientation through a closed loop of "sensing-transmission-analysis-decision-making." Its value is reflected in:

  • Enhancing the Public Experience: Functions such as quick repair reporting and real-time toilet occupancy queries reduce waiting times for the public.
  • Optimizing Resource Allocation: Data-based dynamic scheduling reduces waste of manpower and materials.
  • Assisting Government Governance: Statistics on toilet renovations provide quantitative bases for policy formulation, aiding in the deepening of the "toilet revolution."

In the future, with the integration of 5G and AI technologies, smart toilets are expected to further achieve advanced functions such as unmanned inspections and predictive maintenance, continuously promoting the upgrading of urban public services.