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A Guide to the CHINT SMG Open Protocol Gateway: Building Flexible IoT Solutions

2025年7月2日

Grappling with significant energy costs, businesses worldwide are urgently seeking more efficient ways to reduce their power consumption. With the CHINT SMG-WSR/SMG-ESR Open Protocol Gateway, business owners can now monitor their power consumption on a single dashboard.

This guide aims to provide information on the gateway, discuss CHINT NB2 smart circuit breakers, present real-world scenarios, and provide step-by-step instructions on configuring the gateway.

The Components of Your CHINT SMG-WSR/SMG-ESR Open Protocol Gateway Smart System Solution

Here are the IoT solutions that make up your CHINT SMG-WSR/SMG-ESR Open Protocol Gateway. Review the products below to ensure your dashboard is optimized for its best performance.

  • CHINT SMG-WSR or SMG-ESR Gateway: This is the bridge to your own servers and platforms. SMG-WSR is better used on a Wi-Fi connection, whereas the SMG-ESR is better suited for a reliable Ethernet connection. Both comply with TH35-7.5 rail.
  • CHINT NB2 Smart Circuit Breakers: Monitors the health of your lines by acting as your data points.
  • PSU-3 Power Supply Unit: You’ll need 12V DC power, and this supply unit will efficiently provide it to the gateways.
  • Your Own MQTT Platform: Choose your existing platform or build a new platform with MQTT protocol. This will serve as your primary tool for communicating with various devices within the same local servers or cloud ecosystem.

Building A Smart Energy Management Scenario

Now that you have the components, it's time to learn about the smart electrical system you’ll be building.

The goal is to procure a simple yet powerful smart energy management system for a commercial establishment.

We will aim to build a comprehensive energy management platform, which will include the following core functionalities:

  1. Collect real-time data from individual circuit breakers. These data include voltage, current, frequency, power, and energy consumption.
  2. By using a third-party platform, we will aim to visualize the collected data.
  3. Achieve the ability to turn circuits on and off remotely via the platform.
  4. Alarm Rule Definition: Support for defining alarm triggers (e.g., over-voltage, under-voltage, over-frequency, under-frequency, leakage, temperature and so on).

With these functionalities, we can ensure that we can conduct and measure different metrics. These metrics include energy savings, predictive maintenance, and automated facility management. All are possible with the use of a competent SMG gateway.

CHINT NB2 Smart System

Key System Functions: What Can the NB2 System Do?

Integrating these components unlocks a suite of powerful functionalities, transforming how you manage your electrical infrastructure. Managing your electrical infrastructure can be a complex task. However, incorporating these elements can help you create a very capable dashboard with excellent functionalities.

Data Visualization & Real-Time Monitoring

"If monitoring numerous electrical parameters is a challenge for your team, a smart electrical system can greatly simplify the task. Our solution is built upon two key components: a capable open protocol gateway and CHINT NB2 circuit breakers. Together, they provide you with real-time monitoring and data visualization, allowing your team to instantly access data on voltage, power, current, and energy consumption.

Remote Control & Automation

A smart electrical system enables you and your team to control circuits through bidirectional communication remotely. This functionality is excellent if you want tighter control when managing your electrical system’s load. If you wish to create a schedule for functions such as turning circuits on or off, this is now possible through automation.

Advanced Protection & Fault Alarms

Overloads and short circuits are existing dangers when working with complex electrical systems, especially those found in smart building establishments. However, using a CHINT NB2 breaker allows your SMG gateway to alarm the operator through the platform. This feature lets you and your team respond with urgency. Lastly, you can identify potential problems by pinpointing any weak points and developing a predictive maintenance strategy to address them.

Energy Management & Analytics

Performing detailed consumption analysis can be hard without getting precise energy data from your circuits. Through an NB2 System, data gathering is easier yet more accurate. With the data you and your team have collected, you can now calculate carbon emissions, which you can use for your sustainability reports as well as pinpoint energy-saving opportunities.

How Does an Open Protocol Gateway Work?

Deploying the NB2 Smart System in your building helps accelerate tasks with pinpoint precision. Discover how a CHINT SMG gateway integrates different technologies into a cohesive ecosystem.

Connectivity Among Solutions

The CHINT SMG gateway serves as your central area. This technology connects all your solutions into a harmonious ecosystem and enables faultless exchanges with your platform and systems. What’s great about our SMG gateway is its compatibility with highly capable protocols for both upstream (connecting to a cloud or local server) and downstream (NB2 smart breakers) device communication, ensuring smooth operation with high-level flexibility.

Unified Exchange of Data

CHINT’s SMG gateway translates diverse communication languages into a cohesive format. This attribute allows for the spotless integration of NB2 system data into your preferred analytical tools, or custom-built applications.

Customization Of Functionalities

Customizing features and actions in your gateway or system is a bonus for every company. Our gateway’s open architecture allows your proprietary platforms to be compatible with the unit. What’s great about this attribute is that you can tinker with every detail and make it fit the needs of your building and operation.

Putting It All Together: Real-World Application Scenarios

The NB2 Smart System is deployed in various real-life scenarios due to its reliability and flexibility.

1. Commercial Chain Stores

In the fast-paced world of retail and food service chains, maintaining operational consistency and safety across hundreds of stores presents a significant challenge. Traditionally, electrical management relies on on-site staff, making it difficult to enforce energy policies, diagnose faults, or respond to emergencies centrally.

A single electrical fault in a critical appliance like an oven or deep fryer can lead to service interruptions, revenue loss, and potential safety hazards.

The CHINT NB2 smart solution transforms this decentralized model. It provides a centralized platform for real-time safety monitoring and remote control over every connected store.

Facility managers can receive instant fault alarms, remotely turn off non-essential loads like billboards after hours, and implement complex, timed schedules tailored to each store's needs. This ensures not just energy savings, but more importantly, it standardizes safety protocols and maximizes operational uptime across the entire brand network.

2. Educational Campuses

On educational campuses, ensuring a safe and energy-efficient environment for students and staff is a top priority. However, large buildings with numerous classrooms and dormitories often suffer from significant energy waste when lights and equipment are left running in empty rooms.

Furthermore, traditional electrical systems offer little visibility into potential safety hazards, with fault detection being entirely reactive.

A smart campus solution featuring CHINT NB2 addresses these issues proactively. It enables administrators to implement automated on/off schedules, ensuring that power in teaching areas is shut down after hours to conserve energy.

More critically, the system provides comprehensive safety monitoring, sending immediate alerts for any electrical anomalies. This shifts campus facility management from a reactive to a proactive model, prioritizing the safety of students and staff while fostering a culture of energy responsibility.

3. Office Buildings

Modern office buildings face a dual challenge: optimizing operational costs and ensuring a safe working environment. A common issue is significant energy waste from lighting and air conditioning being left on after working hours.

Facility managers traditionally lack the tools for real-time oversight or remote intervention, making energy management inefficient and reliant on manual checks.

By deploying a smart electrical system, facility and operations teams are empowered with centralized control. CHINT’s solution allows maintenance personnel to remotely power down entire floors or specific circuits, such as lighting and AC units, after all employees have left.

The system continuously monitors for faults, providing a real-time dashboard of the building's electrical health. This capability goes beyond simple convenience; it fundamentally enhances building sustainability, reduces operational expenditures, and ensures the electrical infrastructure remains safe and reliable for all occupants.

4. High-End Residential (e.g., Villas)

For the modern homeowner, peace of mind regarding property safety is paramount. The nagging worry of leaving an appliance on after leaving home, or the hidden risk of an electrical fault leading to a fire, are common concerns.

Standard circuit breakers are passive devices, offering protection only at the moment of a fault and providing no remote visibility or control to the homeowner.

The CHINT NB2 solution elevates home safety to an active, intelligent function. It provides advanced protection against over/under-voltage and detects potential leakage risks automatically.

Homeowners can use a mobile app to remotely monitor their home's electrical status and turn off all non-essential loads with a single tap after leaving the house. This transforms the traditional electrical panel from a forgotten box in the garage into an active guardian, providing unparalleled safety, control, and ultimate peace of mind.

5. Smart Street Lighting

Smart systems revolutionize the management of public street lighting, prioritizing safety and reliability. Traditionally, managing these lights involved cumbersome manual controls and relied on periodic inspections or public complaints to identify failures—a reactive process that could leave critical areas dark for extended periods.

A smart lighting system transforms this approach into a proactive one. While centralized, automated scheduling provides operational convenience, the system's true value lies in its real-time monitoring capabilities. It continuously checks the status of every individual light.

The moment a unit malfunctions or fails, the system sends an immediate, automatic alert to the maintenance team, pinpointing the exact location of the fault. This capability is critical not for cutting costs, but for enabling swift repairs to ensure the network's reliability and uphold public safety. By proactively addressing outages, cities can maintain consistently well-lit streets, enhancing security for pedestrians and drivers alike.

Conclusion

Using the CHINT NB2 Smart System allows you and your team to experience true intelligent and open electrical management functionalities. With the SMG-WSR/SMG-ESR Open Protocol Gateway, smart systems not only offer excellent safety measures but also provide accurate data and extensive control features that can be integrated with your existing platforms. Furthermore, our open protocol will enable you to build your own tailored solutions. Receiving support from both local and cloud servers, the NB2 Smart System offers unmatched versatility that can address any scenario.

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