Smart Nerves Grow in Underground Pipeline Networks, Precisely Guarding Urban Arteries

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Securities Times reports that China's urban underground pipeline networks are entering a new round of construction. Building on the national 'six networks' initiative, the country is using intelligent IoT and large AI models to strengthen urban safety and resilience while driving effective investment. The underground utility tunnel in Suzhou Industrial Park has deployed distributed temperature-sensing optical fiber, enabling uninterrupted monitoring across the entire area with temperature accuracy of plus or minus 0.1 degrees Celsius and positioning accuracy of 0.1 meters. Nationwide, 7,700 kilometers of underground utility tunnels have been completed so far. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, about 770,000 kilometers will continue to be built or upgraded. CITIC Securities estimates investment of about 5 trillion yuan, with intelligent sensing equipment gaining an incremental market worth hundreds of billions of yuan. Companies such as Guangge Technology and Hanjia Digital Intelligence are developing AI algorithms and intelligent agents to shift pipeline operation and maintenance from breakdown repairs to early warning of sub-health conditions. Some regions have already set up special purpose vehicle management companies to centrally collect data, and Shanghai has connected pipeline data covering 180,000 kilometers.

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