H3C Solution for Smart E-Government Business Scenarios

I. Background

With the rapid emergence of digital technologies such as Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and cloud computing, the traditional office mode for government affairs is undergoing significant changes. The 13th Five-Year Plan and the Government Work Report provide programmatic guidance for the e-government official business, while the national policy guidance clarifies the development trend. Since 2020, the popularity of e-government official business has been further accelerated, attracting more attention from local governments.

II. Requirement analysis

The management of traditional office space relies more on manual work, which is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also has a significant risk of resulting in security problems, resource waste, excessive government department management costs, and other issues. This has certainly prompted new demands for improving government management efficiency and reducing costs.

The major issues of current office space management are as follows:

1. High energy consumption and high electricity costs

Given the fact that the lights are always turned on after work or during the bright daytime, daily lighting management methods are inadequate and ineffective.

Energy is wasted due to a lack of reasonable and efficient management methods for seasonal peak electricity consumption. For example, once employees knock off, the air conditioner continues to operate at a low temperature, resulting in a significant waste of electricity.

2. Time-consuming, labor-intensive, and inefficient manual inspection

Security staff are needed at night to check whether the air-conditioning lights are turned off in the office buildings in use. They spend tens of minutes to two or three hours on each inspection, which is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and inefficient.

3. Safety hazards

The lack of effective supervision of high-powered electrical equipment easily results in an overload of electricity, thus causing safety hazards.

4. Worse working environment and staff experience

Most of the time, the staff are in the offices. The external environmental pollution and indoor decoration air pollution make it difficult to work at ease.

III. Solution overview

1. Program design of e-government official business

The overall architecture of the e-government office IoT solution consists of three layers. Compared with the traditional architecture, the architecture of this solution integrates platform and business as one.

Smart terminal layer: The southernmost layer, including environmental monitoring sensors (temperature, humidity, and air quality monitors), security monitoring sensors (gas, water, and smoke sensors), lighting control devices (smart switches), and electrical appliance management devices (smart sockets).

The devices at the terminal layer mainly provided by partners.[DE1] In this solution, the terminal devices are currently accessed via Zigbee technology.

Network device layer: The IoT of e-government official business can be deployed with a wireless network as a hybrid network or deployed separately.

IoT network: Adopts T320 Series products and Zigbee plug-in cards, provides Zigbee access to the smart devices on the terminal layer and Ethernet access to the Local Area Network (LAN), and eventually connects to the IoT business platform.

Wireless + IoT hybrid network: Uses IoT APs to build the hybrid network with unified management,, and connects to downlink wireless terminals and smart IoT terminals.

Business platform layer: Acts as a specific integrated platform for the e-government official business solution, achieving unified management of network devices and terminal devices via the V9 AC and IOT plug-in card or IoT all-in-one device. Moreover, multiple application systems, such as lighting control, electrical device management, environmental monitoring, and security monitoring, are embedded.

2. E-government official business platform

The platform provides functions including lighting control, electrical device management, environmental monitoring, security monitoring, and [DE2]mobile applications[DE3].

Lighting control

Timing control: To reduce manual switching of lighting facilities, the lighting facilities can be configured to automatically switch lights on and off at regular intervals based on the government department's administrative requirements, such as automatically turning lights on at 8 a.m. and off after 8 p.m.

Collaborative control: The lights are turned on and off with the help of collaborative human body infrared sensor devices that detect people entering and leaving the areas with less human activity, such as public areas of government office environments or stairwells, thus reducing unnecessary energy consumption.

Scenario-based control: Custom settings can be made according to various operation or management scenarios in government departments, in addition to timing and collaborative control. For example, in the lunch break scenario, lights can be turned off to ensure that employees rest in a comfortable environment and reduce energy consumption. Additionally, a meeting scenario can be set to automatically adjust the lights at the start and end of meetings.

Electrical device management

Printing equipment, water dispensers, microwave ovens, and air purification devices are among the many electrical facilities found in government department offices. These electrical devices run for an extended period, consuming power and increasing the safety factor, thereby posing a significant security hazard to government departments.

The e-government office IoT solution manages office electrical devices through smart sockets, scenario panels, and human sensor terminals, controls power supply, and monitors the load status, reducing energy consumption and solving the problem of electrical safety in government departments. This solution also supports customized management strategies based on actual business needs.

Timing control: Electrical appliances can be configured to switch on and off as scheduled based on administrative requirements of government departments.

Collaborative control: Human body infrared sensor collaborative devices are used to turn on or off appliances depending on whether human activity is detected, and temperature and humidity sensor collaborative devices are used to automatically turn on air conditioning appliances such as humidifiers when the temperature or humidity reach a certain threshold.

Scenario control: Similar to the scenario-based control in lighting control.

Environment monitoring

H3C provides humanized office experience solutions for government departments in response to increased pollution and dryness in northern China during the winter, to help employees work in a more comfortable environment and improve their work efficiency.

Indoor environment monitoring: Monitors the temperature, humidity, formaldehyde, PM2.5, PM10, and Air Quality Index (AQI), and displays the trend of environmental data changes on the IoT platform.

Collaborative control: Achieves the collaboration of environmental monitoring and electrical device management to adjust the environmental comfort level based on the intelligent strategy of the platform.

Security monitoring

Fire safety, in addition to electrical safety, is an important aspect of government departments' safe operations.

Fire safety - smoke monitoring: Smoke detectors are deployed throughout the office to monitor the surrounding air in real time. When smoke seeps into the optical cavity of a detector and reaches a particular concentration, an alarm is triggered and sent to the IoT platform, which reminds the administrative staff based on the configuration to deal with the situation as soon as possible. At the same time, the detector will activate the built-in speaker and generate a "fire" prompt voice, giving site staff precious time to evacuate before the fire spreads.

Fire safety - water monitoring: Water leak detection cables are deployed beneath or around areas that are prone to water leakage. When a water leak detection cable detects water, an alarm is triggered and sent to the IoT platform, which reminds the administrative staff based on the configuration to address the situation as soon as possible.

Intrusion security: Monitors intrusion through the human body infrared sensor terminal. Strategies can be customized, such as enabling human body infrared monitoring based on time (during winter and summer vacations), to determine whether specific unsafe locations have been invaded by unauthorized individuals.

Platform alarm: Once the above security issues occur, the platform will trigger an alarm and simultaneously collaborate the audio and light alarms on site for alarming.

Mobile application for management

There is no need to install an app. A mobile application can be used for remote office device monitoring, device management, data analysis, and policy configuration.

3. Solution benefits

H3C e-government official business IoT solution helps government departments to improve the administrative management capability, effectively reduce energy consumption expenses, and improve the management efficiency.

Save energy

Turn off non-essential lighting and idle devices automatically based on scenarios, helping government departments save a significant amount of energy each month.

Save manpower

Save manpower on guard tours.

Turn off and on office devices automatically to relieve administrative employees of non-essential tasks.

Improve management efficiency

Administrative guidelines for the use of office devices such as electrical devices and air conditioners have a practical application.

Enhance the security control effectiveness of government departments

Reduce the risk of disasters for government departments and improves their security factors through intelligent strategies including water, electricity, and fire alarms.

Improve work experience

Monitor the office environment from all aspects to ensure that employees work in peace, improve their work experience, and indirectly improve productivity.

IV. Related products

T320 Series Indoor IoT Gateway/Access Unit

T320 Series Indoor IoT Gateway/Access Unit is the new generation of IoT access module independently developed by New H3C Technologies Co., Ltd. (H3C). It has built-in 2.4G RFID or BLE, and supports IoT protocols including RFID, BLE, ZigBee, LoRaWAN, and UWB. In this way, one device can adapt to multiple services. The received data can be transmitted back via Ethernet or Wi-Fi, greatly reducing the difficulty of device deployment. T320 Series products are widely used in education, medical, office, and campus scenarios.

T320 Series products can also be connected with any product of the same series based on user's business needs via a serial connection to meet the service diversification and concurrency requirements.

T320 Series Indoor IoT Gateway

Features:

1. Independent deployment and easy installation

The T320M supports the IoT AP, Terminator, and PoE+ power supply in the uplink direction. The installation is flexible and convenient.

2. Multiple data return methods

T320 Series supports data return via Ethernet and Wi-Fi. The flexible data return methods greatly reduce the difficulty of device installation.

3. One device for multiple services

T320 Series has a built-in 2.4G RFID or BLE radio frequency card, and also supports plug-in cards (such as RFID, BLE, ZigBee, LoRaWAN, and UWB) in the expansion slots to expand service capabilities.

4. Serial chain deployment

Different IoT terminal manufacturers adopt different wireless protocols for data interaction in today's varied IoT business. The key concern of users configuring IoT business is to integrate multi-service networks and the data return of multi terminals.

T320 Series modules support serial deployment. Each chain structure can connect up to nine T320 series modules (varying based on plug-in cards), and can be flexibly expanded according to actual IoT business needs. This solves the problem of multiple IoT business access requests and high concurrency, and implements unified business management with a unified business management system.

T320M supports IoT APs, Terminators, and PoE+ power supply in the uplink direction, and can supply power to the serially connected T320 modules in the downlink direction. The maximum distance from the first T320M main module to the last T320 module is 100 m.

T320M must be thefirst module in each serial chain structure, and all subsequent serially connected modules are all T320 modules.

5. Comprehensive smart management

T320 Series modules can implement the integrated management and O&M of Wi-Fi & IoT based on the H3C IoT platform through open network management protocols.

T320 Series modules support the data collaboration of WLAN, wired network, and IoT to support users' personalized services, while the H3C IoT platform supports access to third-party services and application platforms with the IoT platform as a unified business management platform to meet users' business needs on a larger scale.

IG530 or iCard-WX35-C1K IoT controller

IG530 or iCard-WX35-C1K is a new IoT edge computing controller developed by H3C, providing a lightweight local business engine based on edge computing. It is suitable for a variety of small and medium-sized IoT scenarios such as e-classrooms and e-government offices. H3C IoT controller can be delivered as an edge computing gateway (H3C IG530) or edge computing service plug-in card (H3C iCard-WX35-C1K). The controller also provides access to IoT terminals via multiple protocols such as Zigbee and LoRa by collaborating with H3C IoT gateway.

H3C IG530 edge computing gateway is delivered in an integrated manner, supports local web-based management and IoT platform-based management, and collaborates with the IoT platform to implement edge computing management, device configuration management, and device upgrade.

H3C iCard-WX35-C1K edge computing service plug-in card can be used with WX35X Series AC to provide users with converged integrated hardware such as WLAN, IoT, and firewall. It also supports local web-based management and IoT platform-based management, and can implement cloud-based application management and device upgrade.

Features:

Flexible deployment and integrated delivery

The IoT controller supports independent and flexible local deployment and can work with gateway devices to allow access over multiple IoT protocols. For small and medium-sized IoT scenarios, the built-in management and business software of devices is easy to install and convenient to manage at lower costs.

Small scenario with high specifications

For small and medium-sized IoT scenarios, the IoT controller supports a variety of hardware interfaces and provide built-in hardware and software specifications to meet the needs of small scenarios with scalability.

One device for multiple services

IG530 edge computing gateway supports access over multiple IoT protocols and seamless end-to-end integration with the IoT gateway series.

iCard-WX35-C1K edge computing service plug-in card supports IoT service processing and can be used together with the WX35X series AC to provide integrated services such as WLAN, IoT, and firewall.

Infrared sensor

This product is provided by a third-party partner for conducting human body infrared detection.

Product specifications:

Power: 3 V battery, 1.5-year service life

Dimensions: 65 mm × 65 mm × 28.5 mm

Sensitivity: 12 m, 90 degrees

Features:

1. Use the Zigbee HA1.2 standard protocol with good compatibility.

2. Adopt the low power consumption design with a battery life of up to 1.5 years.

3. Adopt the automatic threshold adjustment technology and improve the detector's stability to effectively prevent false alarms.

4. Automatically compensate for temperature fluctuations and efficiently prevent sensitivity loss due to temperature variations.

5. Alert and report when the battery voltage is low.

6. Adopt the tool-free and ready-to-use installation design.

7. Adopt the ultra-thin shape design.

8. Provide the battery tamper-proof function.

9. Monitor status online.

10. Obtain the CE, ROHS, and FCC certifications.

Magnetic door sensor

This product is provided by a third-party partner.

Product specifications:

Power: 3 V battery, 2-year service life

Dimensions: 76 mm × 36.6 mm × 16.5 mm (detector); 76 mm × 13.9 mm × 16.5 mm (magnet)

Sensitivity: 15 m

Features:

1. Use the Zigbee HA1.2 standard protocol with good compatibility.

2. Adopt the ultra-low power consumption design with a battery life of up to 24 months.

3. Monitor the closing and opening status of the door and window in real time.

4. Adopt the double reed switch design for doors and windows in different directions.

5. Support anti-tamper alarms.

6. Allow for easy battery removal and replacement.

7. Alert and report when the battery voltage is low.

8. Adopt the tool-free and ready-to-use installation design.

9. Adopt the trendy and simple design with an appearance patent.

10. Obtain CE, ROHS, and FCC certifications.

Gas sensor

This product is provided by a third-party partner.

Product specifications:

Power: AC 220 V

Dimensions: 79 mm × 68 mm × 31 mm (excluding the plug)

Sensitivity: 3000 ± 1000 ppm

Features:

1. Use the Zigbee HA1.2 standard protocol with good compatibility.

2. Adopt the ultra-low power consumption design.

3. Adopt the tool-free installation with AC power supply and support direct plugging into a wall socket.

4. Extend the transmission distance as a repeater station.

5. Adopt a semiconductor sensor with high stability.

6. Use an ABS+PC fireproof shell that is corrosion-resistant and anti-spontaneous combustion.

7. Provide a replaceable plug, suitable for users in different countries.

8. Adopt the trendy and simple design with an appearance patent.

10. Obtain CE, ROHS, and FCC certifications.

Smoke sensor

This product is provided by a third-party partner.

Product specifications:

Power: 3 V, 3-year service life

Dimensions: 60 mm × 60 mm × 49.2 mm

Features:

1. Use the Zigbee HA1.2 standard protocol with good compatibility.

2. Use the ultra-low power consumption design with the battery life up to 36 months.

3. Support remote mute through the app.

4. Alert and report when the battery voltage is low.

5. Allow for easy battery removal and replacement.

6. Adopt the tool-free and ready-to-use installation design.

7. Adopt the trendy and simple design with an appearance patent.

8. Obtain the CE, ROHS, EN14604, and FCC certifications.

9. Obtain the Germany Red Dot Award.

Carbon monoxide sensor

This product is provided by a third-party partner.

Product specifications

Power: 3 V, 3-year service life

Dimensions: 60 mm × 60 mm × 49.2 mm

Alarm concentration: 30 ppm, alarm reporting in 120 minutes

50 ppm, alarm reporting in 60 to 90 minutes

100 ppm, alarm reporting in 10 to 40 minutes

300 ppm, alarm reporting in 3 minutes

Features:

1. Use the Zigbee HA1.2 standard protocol with good compatibility.

2. Adopt Japanese NEMOTO electrochemical sensor.

3. Alert and report when the battery voltage is low.

4. Allow for easy battery removal and replacement.

5. Adopt the tool-free and ready-to-use installation design.

6. Adopt the trendy and simple design with an appearance patent.

7. Obtain the CE, ROHS, and FCC certifications.

8. Obtain the Germany Red Dot Award.

Temperature and humidity sensor

This product is provided by a third-party partner.

Power: 3 V, 1-year service life

Dimensions: 60 mm × 60 mm × 20.8 mm

Sensitivity: -20℃ to +120℃, 0% to 100%

Features:

1. Use the Zigbee HA1.2 standard protocol with good compatibility.

2. Adopt the ultra-low power consumption design with longer battery life.

3. Use a high-precision digital temperature and humidity sensor.

4. Detect temperature and humidity with high precision.

5. Alert and report when the battery voltage is low.

6. Allow for easy battery removal and replacement.

7. Adopt the tool-free and ready-to-use installation design.

8. Adopt the trendy and simple design with an appearance patent.

9. Obtain the CE, ROHS, and FCC certifications.

Water sensor

This product is provided by a third-party partner.

Dimensions: 76 mm × 36.6 mm × 16.5 mm (detector); 28.3 mm × 26.5 mm × 12.2 mm (sensor)

Features:

1. Use the Zigbee HA1.2 standard protocol with good compatibility.

2. Adopt the ultra-low power consumption design with the battery life up to 24 months.

3. Adopt the separate design of the main body and sensor and effectively protect the product from high humidity environments.

4. Alert and report when the battery voltage is low.

5. Allow for easy battery removal and replacement.

6. Adopt the tool-free and ready-to-use installation design.

7. Adopt the trendy and simple design with an appearance patent.

8. Obtain the CE, ROHS, and FCC certifications.

Air quality monitor

This product is provided by a third-party partner.

Dimensions: Φ37 mm × 96 mm

Power supply: voltage, power adapter, backup battery

Dimensions: 96 mm diameter, 37 mm height

1. Detect formaldehyde, PM2.5, and PM10.

2. Support remote monitoring through smartphones.

3. Provide LCD and monitor the indoor air quality in real time.

4. Support voice instructions.

5. Support Alexa.

6. Use flame-retardant engineering shell materials.

7. Support tool-free installation.

8. Adopt an intelligent and trendy design with an appearance patent.

Infrared remote control

This product is provided by a third-party partner.

Dimensions: 80 mm × 80 mm × 28 mm

Power supply: AC 220 V, with an adapter

1. Act as a key configuration in the room.

2. Protect dual LANs and network propagation.

3. Support 90% of the infrared devices on the market.

4. Support more than 15 types of infrared devices.

5. Provide 360-degree controllability within 10 m.

6. Adopt a magnetic design, which allows for several installation methods, including placing on a table and attaching to a wall or ceiling.

Smart indoor siren

This product is provided by a third-party partner.

Power supply: 100 V to 240 V

Backup battery: 3.8 V/700 mA

Dimensions: Φ 80 mm × 32 mm (excluding the plug)

Features:

1. Use the Zigbee HA1.2 standard protocol with good compatibility.

2. Adopt the low power consumption design.

3. Provide a highly flexible rotating plug, suitable for users in different countries.

4. Support audio and flash alarms with a sound speed of 95 dB/m.

5. Allow the AC power be to cut off after the battery operates for 12 hours.

6. Extend wireless distance as a wireless repeater.

7. Obtain CE and ROHS certifications.

Single-key/double-key/three-key smart switch

The switch control panel product is provided by a third-party partner. It can be connected to a smart host through a ZigBee wireless network to form a network with other ZigBee devices. Then, users can control the switching status of the loads connected to each circuit of the smart switch through the local key, scenario linkage, or mobile applications, and view the current load status on the product.

Main specifications:

Dimensions: 86 mm × 86 mm× 45.8 mm

Installation: 86 type bottom box

Switch circuit: single key - one circuit; double keys - two circuits; three keys - three circuits

Communication: wireless ZigBee HA1.2, built-in antenna

Standby power consumption: ≤ 0.5 W

Function: The product supports switching on or off the configured key and setting the scenarios based on the software configuration.

Maximum load power: 3 A per circuit

Single-key/double-key/three-key scenario switch

The scenario-based control module product is provided by a third-party partner. It can be connected to a smart host through a wireless network to form a network with other ZigBee devices. Then, users can configure the product through the mobile application, and the smart switch can operate based on the configured scenarios.

Main specifications:

Dimensions: 86 mm × 86 mm× 45.8 mm

Installation: 86 type bottom box

Switch circuit: single key - one circuit; double keys - two circuits; three keys - three circuits

Communication: wireless ZigBee HA1.2, built-in antenna

Standby power consumption: ≤ 0.5 W

Function: The product can control the switch for the load of the circuit corresponding to a key.

Six-key scenario-based switch

The scenario-based control module product is provided by a third-party partner. It can be connected to a smart host through a wireless network to form a network with other ZigBee devices. Then, users can use the mobile application to switch among the six configured scenarios with one-click control.

Main specifications:

Dimensions: 86 mm × 86 mm× 46.5 mm

Communication: wireless ZigBee HA1.2, built-in antenna

Communication distance: indoor > 20 m

The sensing distance of turning on backlit: > 100 mm

Installation: 86 type bottom box

10 A smart socket 1

This product is provided by a third-party partner. It can be connected to a smart host through a wireless network to form a network with other ZigBee devices. Then, users can control the product by scenario linkage or software. The product supports USB charging, timing management, and local child lock functions, and monitors the voltage and current parameters of power devices in real time.

Dimensions: 86 mm × 86 mm× 48.6 mm

Installation: 86 type bottom box

Communication: wireless ZigBee HA1.2, built-in antenna

Standby power consumption: ≤ 0.5 W

Maximum load power: 10 A resistive

USB output: 5 V/2.1 A, 5 V/1.0 A

Active energy (class 2)

10 A smart socket 2

The smart socket product (with the measurement function) is provided by a third-party partner. It can be connected to a smart host through a wireless network to form a network with other ZigBee devices. Then, users can control the product by scenario linkage or mobile applications. This product supports USB charging, timing management, and local child lock functions. It performs the real-time monitoring of voltage and current parameters of power devices for safe and scientific electricity use.

Dimensions: 86 mm × 86 mm× 51 mm

Installation: 86 type bottom box

Communication: wireless ZigBee HA, built-in antenna

Standby power consumption: ≤ 0.5 W

Maximum load power: 10 A resistive

Active energy (class 2)

16 A smart socket

This product is provided by a third-party partner. It can be connected to a smart host through a wireless network to form a network with other ZigBee devices. Then, users can control the product by scenario linkage or mobile applications. This product supports timing management and local child lock functions, and monitors the voltage and current parameters of power devices in real time.

Dimensions: 86 mm × 86 mm× 49.8 mm

Installation: 86 type bottom box

Communication: wireless ZigBee HA1.2, built-in antenna

Standby power consumption: ≤ 0.5 W

Maximum load power: 16 A resistive

Active energy (class 2)

Overload protection: > 20 A overcurrent protection