Hunan Mobile Smart Toilet Architecture
The architecture of Hunan Mobile's smart toilets follows a four-layer logic of 'perception layer - transmission layer - platform layer - application layer', supported by technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and big data to achieve intelligent and efficient public toilet management.
The perception layer serves as the 'nerve endings' of smart toilets, responsible for real-time monitoring of the internal environment and equipment status of public toilets. By deploying human activity sensors, air quality monitors (such as temperature and humidity, ammonia, and hydrogen sulfide sensors), and facility operation status detection devices (such as sensors for faucets, flush valves, and lighting equipment), the perception layer can accurately capture toilet occupancy, air quality changes, and equipment failure risks, providing basic information for subsequent data processing.
The transmission layer acts as a 'bridge' for data transmission, relying on IoT technologies (such as LoRa, NB-IoT, 4G/5G, etc.) to build a stable communication network, ensuring that data collected by the perception layer is transmitted to the platform layer in real-time and reliably. Some smart toilets adopt a dual-network compatibility design to avoid data interruption caused by single-network failures and enhance system fault tolerance.
The platform layer is the 'brain' of smart toilets, relying on a smart public toilet cloud management platform to achieve data calculation and storage. This layer uses big data analysis techniques to clean, classify, and mine massive amounts of data, generating visual reports (such as toilet occupancy rates, energy consumption trends, equipment failure rates, etc.) to provide decision support for managers. At the same time, cloud computing technology ensures the platform's high concurrent processing capacity to meet the needs of collaborative management of multiple public toilets.
The application layer directly serves users and managers, providing a variety of functional services. For users, it achieves intelligent guidance for available toilet stalls through electronic guide screens and mobile apps, reducing waiting times. For managers, it integrates functions such as environmental monitoring (real-time display of air quality and triggering of ventilation systems), resource consumption monitoring (statistics on water and electricity usage and optimization of allocation), automated control (automatic adjustment of lighting and deodorization equipment based on foot traffic), and cleaning management (coordination with cleaning staff or automatic cleaning devices), enhancing the operational efficiency and user experience of public toilets.
Some smart toilets adopt a modular design, with core control equipment (such as smart management hosts) integrating data collection, transmission, calculation, and联动 (coordination) functions, compatible with various subsystem devices, reducing deployment costs. For example, Guangzhou Zhongqi Technology's 'Zhongqi ZQ-SmartToilet' system supports the selection of over a hundred smart devices on demand, featuring high-precision detection and dual-network compatibility advantages, and can flexibly adapt to different scenario requirements.
