Case Study: Chinese Water Pump Manufacturer achieves cloud-based remote monitoring and centralized O&M with Advantech WISE-4471 NB‑IoT solution

WISE-4000 NB-IoT Wireless Sensor Node Brings IoT to Legacy Water Pumps for Distributed Remote Monitoring

Chinese Water Pump Manufacturer struggled to provide timely repairs and centralized management for widely distributed, often hard-to-reach pumping stations. They needed a compact, easy-to-install device-to-cloud solution with wide wireless coverage and simple cloud-based management. Advantech supplied the WISE-4471 NB‑IoT wireless sensor node to enable remote monitoring and O&M without changing existing pump control systems.

Advantech’s WISE-4471 was installed in pump control cabinets and connected via RS‑485 to PLCs, pre-processing data into MQTT and uploading once or twice daily over China Telecom’s NB‑IoT SIM to a public cloud platform. The deployment delivered centralized remote monitoring, eliminated routine on-site inspections, reduced monthly power and network costs thanks to NB‑IoT’s low power and low rates, and improved after-sales service and customer satisfaction—giving the Chinese Water Pump Manufacturer a measurable boost in operational efficiency and market competitiveness.