Towards Standardised Unmanned Operation: Youkong's Gate and Pump Station Automation with Dam Safety Monitoring
Lead: Flood-season staffing, gate dispatching, pump station inspection and dam safety — the difficulty in managing water conservancy assets is rarely the lack of equipment. It is that the sites are dispersed, the data is fragmented and the workforce is limited. Addressing this, Guangdong Youkong Intelligent Engineering Technology Co., Ltd. (YOKORN) provides a complete solution covering gate LCU control cabinets, pumping station LCU control cabinets, dam safety monitoring, hydrological monitoring, a smart water conservancy platform and cyber security.
At the field control layer, gate and pumping station LCU control cabinets handle local data acquisition and execution: gate opening, water level, flow, motor current and unit temperature are brought into one system, supporting both local manual operation and remote dispatching from the control room. For gates and pump stations distributed along a river basin, the system can execute automatically against preset water level and flow strategies, significantly reducing the burden of on-site attendance during flood season.
At the safety monitoring layer, the dam safety monitoring system continuously collects seepage pressure, displacement and seepage flow, while the hydrological monitoring system returns rainfall and water level data in real time. Together they form a "monitoring — analysis — early warning" loop. When an indicator exceeds its limit, alerts are pushed by severity level, giving managers time to respond.
At the data application layer, the smart water conservancy platform consolidates these dispersed points onto a single map, combining GIS spatial information with 3D scenes to enable remote sensing, dynamic monitoring and standardised unmanned management. Given the importance of water conservancy information systems, the solution also includes cyber security — boundary protection, access control and audit trails — to keep the system running reliably over the long term.
Youkong notes that intelligence in water conservancy is not about removing people. It is about putting limited maintenance resources where human judgement is genuinely needed: let the system do the repetitive inspection rounds, and let engineers make the decisions.
Figure 4 A water conservancy project site. (Source: Company asset library — banner2.png)
Figure 5 A local LCU control cabinet, supporting both local operation and remote dispatching from the control room. (Source: Product Materials / Water Treatment Plant / 1. PLC Control System)
Tags: Smart Water Conservancy Gate LCU Pumping Station LCU Dam Safety Monitoring Hydrological Monitoring
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