Water Quality Monitoring Data Buoys: Revolutionizing Online Surveillance to Replace Manual Monitoring

Water quality monitoring is a crucial task for safeguarding water resource security. Although traditional manual water quality monitoring methods once played an important role, their limitations have become increasingly evident with the development of the times. Water Quality Monitoring Data Buoys, relying on their online monitoring functions, are gradually replacing manual monitoring.

Manual water quality monitoring relies on staff regularly visiting monitoring points, collecting water samples, and bringing them back to the laboratory for analysis. This method has a low sampling frequency, making it difficult to monitor water quality in real time. During the interval between two samplings, sudden changes in water quality are difficult to detect in a timely manner, which is prone to causing the expansion of pollution incidents. Moreover, manual operations are greatly affected by subjective factors. Differences in sampling techniques, sample preservation, and transportation processes among different personnel will interfere with the accuracy of detection results. Additionally, it has high costs in terms of manpower, material resources, and time, and is inefficient.

Water Quality Monitoring Data Buoys do not encounter these problems. They are made of high-strength and corrosion-resistant materials for the buoy body, equipped with sensors such as pH, conductivity, and dissolved oxygen, and powered by solar energy and lithium batteries, enabling long-term use. Monitoring data is transmitted in real time to the remote control center through wireless technologies such as 4G, allowing staff to keep abreast of water quality dynamics at any time.

Water Quality Monitoring Data Buoys can update data at the minute level, promptly detect water quality anomalies; fully automated operation reduces human interference, and the data error rate can be reduced by more than 60%; relying on the cloud platform, managers can view data through mobile phones and computers without the need for on-site travel.

Nowadays, Water Quality Monitoring Data Buoys have been widely used in monitoring sites such as drinking water sources, rivers, and oceans. For example, in the ecological restoration project of the Yangtze River Basin, hundreds of buoy stations laid along the line have provided key data for pollutant tracing and the formulation of treatment plans.