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Intelligent environmental management Smart Environmental IoT provides you with the tools you need to monitor, analyze, and optimize environmental data and the conditions of your systems.

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The challenge

Be knowledgeable about the state of the environment and nature

Sustainable environmental management in cities and communities has increasingly gained in significance as a means to proactively address current issues such as climate change with challenging weather conditions or dust pollution. Measures such as the efficient management of parks and green spaces and the targeted drainage of compensation areas serve to protect the environment and enhance the quality of life in cities.

Sensors are used to collect and monitor data on environmental conditions, such as air quality, temperature, humidity, or noise. With real-time data, environmental problems can be identified so as to derive and implement suitable measures.

Solution

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Environmental IoT

Phoenix Contact has developed an intelligent environmental monitoring system to provide more data transparency in environment issues. Utilizing sensor technology, Smart Environmental IoT collects environmental data, which is then transmitted to urban data platforms via a communication network.

The Environmental IoT system enables you to connect all types of sensors with different interfaces. Our controllers, based on the open PLCnext Technology ecosystem, can check the sensors and detect measuring errors.

The environmental information visualized provides urban and landscape planners with important decision-making tools, plus data for severe weather warnings. Costs for services and processes are also significantly reduced using needs-based measures.

Applications for monitoring the environment

Efficient green space management

The green cities of tomorrow will stand out with their vibrant green spaces and pleasant climate. Using smart irrigation solutions, all plants, trees, and grasses are watered as and when they need it, while conserving resources.

The intelligent irrigation control system uses updated sensor data relating to soil moisture, soil temperature, and conductivity. The calculations include not only local environmental data, but also data from weather forecasters as well as historical data. Having the data enables the best possible predictive irrigation of green spaces along with the potential to reduce water consumption and lower labor costs.

Utilizing LoRaWAN and cloud services ensures high data availability and transparency, and enables easy integration into your network.

More about soil moisture sensors

Monitoring water quality

Improving water quality is essential for the environment. In hot seasons especially, what is needed is for the water quality to be monitored and evaluated regularly to keep the increased risk of algae growth under control. Data from sensors provides important indicators for water quality monitoring by measuring the turbidity and the oxygen content.

Our environmental IoT solution monitors this environmental data in real time. The system not only alerts the user if a threshold value is exceeded, it can also trigger automation processes such as artificial aeration of the water.

Water levels and rain monitoring

Heavy rainfall events at a local level are causing serious flood damage worldwide. To take protective measures in good time, forecasts and early warnings about floods are essential for survival.

We offer the Environmental Monitoring Service on our IoT platform, which integrates various sensor data via LoRaWAN. It visualizes not only rain intensity or water levels, but its data can be used as an early warning system for floods.

Your advantages

Derivation of effective measures for the sustainable protection of the environment
Respond to hazardous situations such as storms or floods at an early stage
Raising awareness on environmental issues through transparent environmental knowledge
Reduce costs for services and processes through needs-based optimization

Contact

Fabian Pasimeni

Global Industry Manager Urban Infrastructure

smartcity@phoenixcontact.com

I would be happy to support you on your way towards a smart city.

Intelligent environmental management with the Smart City Box

With the Smart City Box, you can easily combine city data – from the sensor to the control system. Data transparency helps cities identify targeted optimization measures for efficient and sustainable living spaces. The all-purpose box is easily connected to your existing infrastructure.

All applications are based on sensor data and wireless data transmission acquired in real time. Given its open system architecture, the Box can be easily integrated into both municipal computing centers and into many other IoT platforms.