Cotton is one of the most important cash crops in China, and is also a daily necessity. It plays an important role in national defense, medicine, industry and other fields. Xinjiang long-staple cotton, the world’s top, quilt, warm, breathable, comfortable, long demand. To meet domestic demand, China imports about 2 million tons of cotton every year. In recent years, China has actively expanded import channels and strengthened cooperation with major cotton producers such as Brazil and India to ensure the stability of its domestic cotton supply chain. China has also established a cotton reserve system to ensure that cotton farmers are safe. As for picking, with the promotion of mechanized cotton picking in China, xinjiang’s cotton machine has reached 42% in 2019.
Intelligent agriculture has become the general development direction of cotton industry and even the world agricultural industry. Therefore, the organic combination of smart agriculture and cotton industry can provide important technical support for the significant increase of cotton output and the revitalization of cotton industry.
Demand for intelligent cotton plant
With the intelligent reform of factories and the continuous advancement of information construction, the deployment and application of various information systems and automation systems by large-scale enterprises with complex production lines, the modern management means of factories are becoming richer and more accurate. Workshop management of production enterprises is becoming more and more important, and the safety, availability and operation and maintenance management requirements of all kinds of equipment in the workshop are becoming more and more high. Various advanced technical means, such as video monitoring system, can effectively strengthen the intuitive management of various occasions, special equipment and personnel, timely and effectively reflect the site situation of important locations and regions, enhance security measures, and further standardize the production management of each position.
Disadvantages of traditional monitoring
Traditional monitoring systems and equipment can no longer meet the needs of enterprises for “centralized monitoring and unified management” of factories, and can not realize high-definition display and detailed view of the whole process of information status of factories, equipment, production and operation.
Technological progress has become the booster of factory upgrading and transformation
At present, the monitoring means has developed from the traditional analog video monitoring to high-definition network digital video monitoring. Using the existing office network, enterprise private network, optical fiber private network laying, even the Internet and wireless network can build the high-definition network video monitoring system of the factory. At the same time, the large-scale popularization of megapixel network camera also solves the awkward situation of the lack of resolution of traditional analog video surveillance system.
Cotton processing plant monitoring and management needs
The system mainly meets the needs of two major parts: one is the safety of public area of cotton processing factory; Second, cotton processing factory production area monitoring unified centralized management demand.
Remote monitoring system mainly through the distribution in cotton processing production line equipment sensor, switch signal, video surveillance equipment, PLC controller, such as device, through the intelligent networking equipment integrated into the Internet and LAN, realize the production and operation at any time to master, the monitoring data and network within the scope of online knowledge repository, Carry out remote diagnosis and online maintenance according to the equipment operation data collected on site.
The security prevention system should start from a high degree of security, scientific management and the resistance and defense ability to man-made destruction, so we put forward the following design principles:
1) Advanced: it means that the products and systems required to be adopted are the application achievements of modern advanced electronic technology and have certain forward-looking characteristics.
2) Practicability: Reasonably configure the functions to be realized, and the front-end of the system and software have good learnability and operability.
3) Reliability: when designing the security system, it is necessary to ensure the safe and reliable operation of the system and the convenience of setting, and to consider the preservation and quick recovery of the system setting data.
4) Centralized management and control of equipment: centralized management and view of the monitoring of each cotton processing plant. In addition, public network access needs to be met.
Cotton processing plant intelligent solutions
Based on the current monitoring needs of cotton processing plants, TSINGSEE Video can build a stable and efficient video security monitoring and management platform for its “Cloud edge” series video edge computing gateway EasyNVR.
EasyNVR will be deployed at the headquarters of the cotton processing plant, and Hikon or Uvision cameras will be directly connected to EasyNVR through the internal network of the headquarters. The EasyNTS device terminal is deployed in the site of each branch, and the virtual channel is established with the server terminal. EasyNVR can pull the monitoring video stream of the branch, and finally centralize the factory monitoring video of each branch and the headquarters into the EasyNVR platform of the headquarters.
Through EasyNVR hd video monitoring system to focus on video surveillance management of production, at the same time through the private network video transmission on the transmission of video resources related to the level of department to realize remote network monitoring, make full use of computer, video compression, network communications in areas such as advanced technology, stable to further improve the safety management of factory and production efficiency.
The whole system adopts the whole network digital video monitoring architecture, the front end uses high-definition network camera for video collection, through the camera network port and RTSP protocol or Onvif protocol directly access to the cotton processing plant video transmission network, transmission to the back end for centralized storage and management.
The transmission backbone adopts gigabit optical fiber network, and the back end adopts EasyNVR centralized management platform to complete centralized preview, control, management, storage, video distribution and other functions of the entire video surveillance system, so as to realize centralized management of high-definition digital video surveillance system of the factory and create smart factory supervision mode.
Technical characteristics
EasyNVR is the perfect and stable video surveillance management platform developed by TSINGSEE Video. The system is easy to operate, maintain and expand, and has a wide range of applications. It supports fluorite cloud service, remote video preview, playback, message push and so on. Smart factory video surveillance management also has the following functions:
1) Real-time transmission of HD video information
EasyNVR video management platform can, with the support of bandwidth, connect and transmit the webcam in cotton processing factory or the camera in DVR through RTSP/Onvif protocol through H.264/H.265 compression coding.
2) Support multi-terminal video viewing
The video uploaded by the monitoring room of each cotton processing plant is connected to the factory LAN, decoded and output to the TV wall through the decoder in the monitoring center, and can also be operated and controlled directly on the monitoring client PC.
Users can monitor each monitoring point from the client PC and the TV wall of the monitoring center, so as to understand the operation of equipment in the production area, the situation of raw material storage area and the safety status of living areas, etc. You can also log in to the center platform through web clients such as computers and mobile phones to browse and watch front-end surveillance videos in real time.
The system supports single screen, multi-screen function and character superposition function. Users can set the front-end image quality on the client PC, and the effect is reflected in real time. All the videos of the monitoring points are recorded in real time. In addition, users can choose to watch any video or multiple channels, and the number of video Windows is 1, 4, 9 and 16.
3) Centralized and unified management of equipment
EasyNVR supports centralized device monitoring and real-time monitoring, as well as visual remote operation and maintenance management, which can help quickly solve and troubleshoot front-end device problems and reduce operation and maintenance costs.
4) Video playback
EasyNVR local disk supports video recording, retrieval, and playback. You can accurately control video playback through the timeline. At the same time, EasyNVR itself provides video recording function, in addition to:
- Enable or disable video recording for the channel
- Video files can be retrieved and played back without region limitation
- Supports real-time video surveillance and playback on the public network
- Supports 24-hour video surveillance
- Supports video retrieval and playback
- The video playback function helps the factory managers to observe and understand the site conditions in various areas and workshops of the factory, analyze the cause of accidents encountered in the production process, and conduct video review, accountability and evidence collection.
5) PTZ control
In EasyNVR video surveillance platform, Onvif protocol is used to access the network camera of cotton processing factory or the camera of hard disk recorder. Investigators can trace the source and find the cause by controlling the host to retrieve effective information.
6) Multi-stream output
EasyNVR supports multi-protocol distribution, including video streams in RTSP, FLV, RTMP, WS-FLV and HLS formats, with strong flexibility and high openness, which can meet the requirements of diversified scenarios for factory security monitoring.
7) Device snapshot and status maintenance
Real-time monitoring of equipment status and operation, in case of failure can be timely maintenance, improve the risk prevention and control level of factory safety.
8) Provide secondary development interface
Through API interface documents, EasyNVR video management transcoding streams can be directly integrated into the upper business platform to realize video viewing.
9) Multi-level permission management
EasyNVR platform supports multi-level rights management, and users at all levels have different browsing and control rights for the video at the monitoring point.
conclusion
Based on emerging technologies such as Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing, ARTIFICIAL intelligence and edge computing to realize efficient information interconnection among equipment, cotton processing factories are gradually upgrading to “smart factories”. Intelligent agriculture is the inevitable trend of cotton industry and even the whole agricultural industry.
EasyNVR’s smart factory video monitoring solution by TSINGSEE Video can effectively ensure the factory’s efficient production, ensure production safety, eliminate safety risks in time, and greatly improve the intelligent management level of cotton processing plants.