Infrastructure refers to the physical engineering facilities that provide public services for social production and residents' lives. It is a public service system designed to ensure the normal operation of socio-economic activities in a country or region. Urban infrastructure generally includes road and transportation systems, energy supply systems, water supply and drainage systems, urban disaster prevention systems, environmental sanitation systems, and communication systems. Currently, the application of the Beidou system in the field of infrastructure construction continues to deepen. Today, let's take a look at how the Beidou system is applied in this field!

Road traffic system

During the construction of the high-speed railway from Huanggang to Huangmei in Hubei Province, the Beidou-based surveying and measuring device significantly enhanced the construction technology and engineering quality. This device, integrating Beidou and infrared scanning functions, can easily and quickly measure, record, and transmit parameters such as contact line mast clearance, foundation elevation, span, messenger wire height, and stagger value, keeping measurement errors within the "millimeter range". This has achieved intelligent construction and improved construction quality.

High-speed railway from Huanggang to Huangmei in Hubei

The Guiyang-Huangping Expressway is located in Guizhou's karst landform, and the special topographical environment poses many challenges and difficulties for construction. The high-precision service of Beidou effectively assisted in the installation and hanging of the main arch cables of the Wumei River Bridge, effectively improving the installation accuracy of the arch ribs.

Guiyang-Huangping Expressway

During the construction of the Lingdingyang Bridge catwalk on the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor, construction personnel utilized the Beidou system for dynamic monitoring of the entire installation process. At the same time, they lowered the immersed tube onto the seabed underwater at a depth of 40 meters, achieving precise docking.

The integrated vessel for the transportation and installation of immersed tubes for the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge is currently engaged in the operation of lowering the tube segments

Energy supply system

In Tianshui, Gansu Province, the power supply company has strengthened the safety management of power infrastructure by utilizing Beidou. The front of the safety helmets worn by the staff is equipped with a camera, which is simultaneously connected to a Beidou-based safety control system. Leveraging Beidou's high-precision positioning technology, the system can monitor, collect, and upload location information in real time. By utilizing Beidou positioning and electronic fencing technology, it can divide work areas and live areas into electronic fences at intervals.

The management personnel implement the monitoring of personnel information within the operation area

Sichuan Ya'an Electric Power has utilized Beidou short message services to intelligently upgrade the infrastructure of remote small hydropower stations, successfully implemented automated data collection and data collection and transmission, and achieved visual status monitoring and early warning through combining multiple technologies, thereby enhancing the operation and maintenance level of lines in uninhabited areas.

In recent years, Beijing has deployed multiple Beidou terminals for gas pipeline network inspection work, utilizing the Beidou system to more quickly and accurately identify risk points, ensuring the safety of gas equipment and infrastructure around hospitals, and improving the efficiency and accuracy of maintenance.

plumbing and drainage system

In terms of water supply and drainage infrastructure, all drainage pipeline manhole covers in Baoshan District, Shanghai, have been "armed" with Beidou system technology, enabling precise background positioning and real-time monitoring. As long as there is an abnormal movement of decimeter level, the sensing module under the manhole cover will trigger an "alarm"; manhole covers equipped with Beidou terminals in Xiaoshan, Hangzhou, can send out alarm signals in a timely manner when their posture or shape changes.

Manhole covers equipped with Beidou terminals

Urban disaster prevention system

Sichuan Ya'an has installed facilities and equipment such as Beidou integrated monitoring terminals and Beidou rainfall monitoring terminals at several major geological disaster hazard points, effectively improving the level of earthquake disaster prevention.

Shanghai Port is equipped with telemetry, positioning, and tracking terminals based on the Beidou system, which enable real-time tracking and precise positioning of maritime infrastructure. By obtaining information on the dynamic drift trajectory of navigation aids, it plays a crucial role in ensuring timely and effective safety management of navigation aids.

Environmental sanitation system

In Wuhan, Hubei Province, the city's environmental sanitation infrastructure has been equipped with terminals that support the Beidou system, which can automatically detect the amount of garbage stored in trash bins, accurately solving the problem of overflowing bins. In Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, 300 environmental sanitation vehicles have been equipped with on-board Beidou terminals, allowing management personnel to monitor the operation of the vehicles in real time, including departure time, driving speed, driving trajectory, and other information.

The top of the trash can is equipped with a chip and a sensor

communication system

With the mutual enhancement and empowerment of the two major infrastructures, Beidou and 5G, promoting the development of integrated technology, integrated terminals, integrated platforms, integrated data, and integrated services, the application modes of the Beidou system will become more diverse. "5G + Beidou high-precision positioning" provides more possibilities for vehicle-road coordination in transportation infrastructure. With the joint empowerment and support of the Beidou system and 5G, "unmanned farms" have become a reality, making agricultural production easier, more efficient, and more convenient.

Jointly drawing a new blueprint for infrastructure development during the 14th Five-Year Plan period

November 2021

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Information and Communication Industry", proposing to make the construction of new digital infrastructure one of the key development priorities during the 14th Five-Year Plan period. It aims to comprehensively deploy a new generation of communication network infrastructure and promote the large-scale application of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System in the information and communication field.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Office of the Central Leading Group for Cybersecurity and Informatization, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the National Health Commission, and the National Energy Administration jointly issued the "Three-Year Action Plan for the Construction of New IoT Infrastructure (2021-2023)", proposing to utilize various technological methods such as Beidou to advance the construction of new IoT infrastructure, promote the development of the digital economy, and empower the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries.

December 2021

The Ministry of Transport has issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for Digital Transportation Development", proposing to deploy information infrastructure application networks such as Beidou and 5G, and build application scenarios and industrial ecosystems based on Beidou and 5G.

January 2022

The State Council has released the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of a Modern Comprehensive Transportation System", proposing to promote the application of advanced transportation equipment, facilitate the promotion and application of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, improve the infrastructure of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System for transportation, enhance the ground-based augmentation network of BeiDou, and improve the level of BeiDou short message service.

March 2022

The National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration have released the "14th Five-Year Plan for Modern Energy System", proposing to promote the application of the Beidou system and other technologies in the energy industry, and accelerate the construction of Beidou space-time infrastructure applications and intelligent operation system projects.

April 2022

The Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Science and Technology have issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for Scientific and Technological Innovation in the Transportation Sector", proposing to accelerate the promotion of BeiDou in the fields of survey and design, construction, management, operation, and transportation services of transportation infrastructure.