In recent days, the results of the 2026 smart city pioneer were presented at the nineteenth smart city congress. Our city case of “improving the capacity of wisdom drainage platforms to protect from floods and floods” received the second prize for the smart cities application case 2026。
The case was led by the municipal housing authority, and was jointly declared by the municipal centre for drainage and water management, fujian yufa ecotechnic co. Ltd. And the four generation technologies co. Ltd. In recent years, the state building system has been based on the urban high-quality development and livelihood security landscape, focusing on the geographical characteristics of the state network of rivers, heavy storm surges and high internal flood control and control pressures, bringing together the upgrading of urban drainage and flood control systems and the creation of a state-wise drainage platform. This platform, equipped with an “intellectual brain” for urban water system governance, promotes a shift from passive “manipulation” to a full-blown digital “intellectual” approach to flood control in the cities of zhuzhou。
A map goes "underwater."
Suzhou is off the coast and extreme weather conditions, such as typhoons and short and heavy rainfall, are frequent. In recent years, the state has developed an integrated system of drainage and drainage, with solid foundations for urban drainage hardware, but it is still operating with cross-sectoral data barriers, insufficient pre-qualification of flood conditions, poor coordination of multi-subject control and insufficient release of the integrated effectiveness of traditional drainage systems。
In order to systematically break down these congestion points, the municipal centre for drainage has taken the lead in developing the wisdom drainage platform in the province. “we fully integrate the entire chain of planning for drainage and flood control in the city, network maintenance, and global water system connections, and we perform the lead, integrated lead responsibility throughout the development and construction of the platform.” zai yuanli, director of the municipal centre for drainage and sewerage, stated that the platform would move away from a single visualized shallow construction approach and build on the results of the global water digitized bottom and network surveys, transforming years of experience in water treatment engineering into quantifiable, mimicable and remixable digital algorithms that would bind the engineering entities to digital data depths and the same frequency。
“on this platform, every river, every pumping station, every platoon has its own `digital identification card'.” a presentation was made by yang ho ying, chief of the water department control section of the municipal water supply and sewerage centre, where the wisdom drainage platform was closely aligned with the geo-governance features of the city's network of rivers and storm surges, and the field verification was completed in multiple rounds of extreme stress disposal, which effectively pre-empted flood risk warning, compressed urban catchment cycles, increased joint port pumping and emergency disposal response。
A storm test for real kung fu
The platform is ready, the technology is good, and the battle will be clear。
In july 2023, typhoon dussure affected the canton, with a 24-hour rainfall of 238 mm to the 50-year standard in the main urban area. The wisdom drainage platform in huizhou provided a precision warning of 12 water points seven hours in advance, connected nine water gates and four pumping stations with a strong platoon command, and completed the operation of 6. 64 million cubic metres of drainage. Ultimately, water collection points were reduced by 62 per cent compared to historical typhoons, and the time of recharge was reduced from more than eight hours in the past to 3. 2 hours。
And in a regularized and intense rainfall scenario, the platform also shows the same quality -- in 30 years, the platform will be able to issue an early warning six hours in advance of rainfall, an increase of 68 per cent in the efficiency of emergency response, a 84 per cent reduction in the time required to move the pumping station, a 34-point reduction in the area, a 65 to 1. 8-hour reduction in the time spent on water recharge, and an effective reduction in flood damage。
“the platform divides the two functional blocks of day-to-day management, command and movement control, integrated line-up, emergency movement control, ecological control, preparedness, risk assessment, intelligent premeditation, round-trip evaluation, etc., into a full range of controlled cockpits with ai smart question-and-answer assistants to achieve integrated control of the water system all-weather line.” the deputy director of the municipal centre for water supply and sewerage, lin yujiang, stated that the stereo-intelligence survey replaced the traditional manual global mapping platoon with a 66 per cent reduction in survey manpower input and a significant reduction in transportation costs. At the same time, the platform integrates data from the network's census, inland water treatment works, digitizes the experience of sub-lineal water treatment, synchronizes drainage and flood control, water environment, water ecology management, and breaks down the pains of decentralized traditional management and delayed disposal。
A platform for water futures
