One website, one picture, one platform: Shanxi installs “intelligent brain” to control water resources and save water

China News Service, Taiyuan, November 10 (Reporter Fan Lifang) "The digital twin water conservancy system is to 'move' our Shanxi's rivers, lakes, and water conservancy projects into the digital space for intelligent simulation and scheduling rehearsal, so that we can see, calculate clearly, and predict accurately, and install a 'smart brain' for water control, water conservation, and water conservation." ” At the press conference on Shanxi’s “15th Five-Year Plan” series held on the 10th, Zhang Dianjun, director of the Shanxi Provincial Water Conservancy Development Center, used a website, a picture, and a platform to outline the digital transformation of Shanxi’s water conservancy during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period.

Currently, the application fields of digital twin technology continue to expand. Faced with the basic provincial situation of "long coal and short water", how can Shanxi leverage the construction of a digital twin water conservancy system? Zhang Dianjun introduced that the specific path focuses on “weaving a dense network, improving a map, and building a platform.”

Weaving a dense network focuses on building an integrated monitoring and sensing system of "sky, ground, water and engineering". Shanxi will build a "five-in-one" monitoring network, make good use of new technologies and new equipment such as remote sensing satellites, rain measuring radars, and drones, and accelerate the implementation of key projects such as the "three lines of defense" for rainwater monitoring and forecasting, precise scheduling and efficient utilization of water resources throughout the chain, and full life cycle management of water conservancy projects. It will achieve full coverage, all elements, and all-weather monitoring, so as to obtain changes in water conditions and industrial conditions at the first time, and secure the first barrier to flood and drought disaster prevention.

Improving a map aims to improve the “one map” of Shanxi water conservancy. At present, the map has collected more than 300,000 pieces of water conservancy data and all the above maps have been stored in the database. In the next step, Shanxi will rely on the province's "one map" of natural resource management and land spatial planning to compile various information such as rainwater conditions, water resources, river and lake management and protection, and project operations, making this water conservancy "living map" more practical the more it is used.

Build a platform, that is, build a modern water network dispatching center in Shanxi with high standards. The center integrates data collection, simulation calculations, scientific decision-making, and convenient services, and will become a provincial-level smart water conservancy hub. Relying on the province's modern water grid layout of "three verticals, nine horizontals, and eight connected rivers", Shanxi will scientifically coordinate and allocate the province's water resources. It will not only maintain the bottom line of flood prevention safety, ensure that the people can drink safe water and the rural water supply is stable, but also help revive the ecological environment of rivers, lakes and springs.