In the context of the environmental protection industry, where profit margins continue to shrink, labor costs keep rising, and traditional operation and maintenance models are becoming unsustainable, intelligent transformation is no longer a “choice question” but a “mandatory question” for enterprise survival and development.  

From May 29 to 30, 2026, a delegation from Shanxi Lvjie's Environmental Protection Co., Ltd. visited Sichuan to engage in a two-day in-depth technical exchange and on-site inspection with Hongtai Huarui Technology Group. The two sides conducted practical and in-depth discussions on core topics such as intelligent wastewater treatment, low- or unmanned operations and maintenance, sludge disposal, and plug-and-play AI-integrated equipment, jointly exploring new pathways for high-quality development in the environmental protection industry. 

 1. Technical Exchange: Focusing on Industry Pain Points and Refreshing Operational Understanding

On May 29, the technical exchange meeting officially opened at Hongtai Huarui’s Chengdu, Sichuan headquarters.  

Shanxi Lvjie's Environmental Protection currently operates nearly 100 sites covering rural and industrial wastewater, with an operations team of approximately 100 people. Although the company has taken the lead in building a smart water platform to achieve centralized management of monitoring, operation, and delivery through a single dashboard, it still faces common industry challenges such as shrinking profit margins, heavy reliance on experienced engineers for equipment commissioning, and time-consuming and labor-intensive sludge disposal.  

In response to these challenges, Shanxi Lvjie's Environmental Protection clearly outlined three core demands: 

• Refresh the traditional concept of wastewater plant operations  
• “Bring results home”  
• Achieve mutually beneficial cooperation with Hongtai Huarui  

During the exchange, Hongtai Huarui focused on introducing the FyhoneOS , which constructs a human-vehicle-equipment collaborative ecosystem. This system uses AI as the central brain, connecting the three main operational nodes—human, vehicle, and equipment—to build an intelligent operations and maintenance system covering monitoring, early warning, scheduling, execution, and feedback in a closed loop.  

Addressing pain points in sludge treatment, such as poor equipment stability, difficulty in cleaning and maintenance, and high anti-corrosion requirements, Hongtai Huarui revealed that the next version of the FyhoneOS will integrate a smarter, more stable sludge treatment solution to further improve automation and reliability in the sludge segment.  

Notably, Shanxi Lvjie's Environmental Protection showed strong interest in intelligent dosing equipment. Hongtai Huarui demonstrated AI-integrated wastewater treatment devices that truly achieve “plug-and-play”—automatically adapting and operating once connected to water and power, completely eliminating the traditional complexity of equipment commissioning and heavy reliance on experienced engineers.  

In response to concerns about whether the practicality of the FyhoneOS system is proportional to its cost and whether expenses are controllable, Hongtai Huarui clearly stated: they are committed to cost control and system marketability, significantly reducing comprehensive operation and maintenance costs through intelligent methods, achieving “cost reduction without efficiency loss, efficiency increase without added burden.”  

 2. On-Site Inspection: Visiting Operations Sites and Witnessing AI Implementation

On May 30, the delegation visited urban wastewater treatment plants and human-vehicle-equipment application sites, experiencing the real-world performance of the FyhoneOS system up close.  

At the “human-vehicle-equipment” application site, the delegation observed that the FyhoneOS  had upgraded the traditional “manual monitoring” model to AI autonomous operation: 

• The system provides 24/7 online monitoring and can issue water quality fluctuation warnings hours in advance;  
• Operators can check equipment status and receive task instructions in real-time via an app;  
• On-site operations have achieved low-manpower management, improving inspection efficiency by over 50%.   

During the AI-integrated equipment demonstration, the devices automatically complete parameter adaptation and operational initialization once connected to water and power, requiring no human intervention. The unmanned delivery system demonstrated autonomous route planning and on-demand delivery of chemicals and materials, entirely without human involvement, greatly reducing on-site personnel workload. 

In terms of sludge treatment, Hongtai Huarui also showcased the preliminary results of the Guanlan system (AI sludge settling ratio detection). This system uses visual recognition and AI models to automatically assess and return data on the sludge settling process, laying the foundation for future system integration. The next version of the FyhoneOS will further integrate a smarter sludge treatment solution, continuously addressing operational challenges in sludge management. 

The Shanxi Lvjie's Environmental Protection delegation expressed high recognition, stating, “This is exactly the scenario we hope to ‘bring results home.’ By introducing Hongtai Huarui’s human-vehicle-equipment ecosystem, we can significantly reduce the operational burden on personnel while improving the accuracy and timeliness of chemical delivery.”  

 3. Exchange Outcomes: Reaching Strategic Consensus and Initiating a New Chapter of Cooperation

After two days of technical exchange and on-site inspections, both sides reached important consensus on several levels:  

1. AI empowerment is key to breaking through shrinking profit margins in the environmental protection industry

Intelligent methods that optimize chemical consumption, labor, and compliance stability are essential to enhance enterprise competitiveness.  

2. Plug-and-play AI-integrated equipment significantly lowers operational thresholds

  It effectively solves the difficulties of traditional equipment commissioning, reduces reliance on experienced engineers, shortens deployment cycles, and improves system launch efficiency. 

3. uman-vehicle-equipment collaborative ecosystems represent the future of smart environmental protection 

   Through “AI autonomous operation” management, operations shift from a “humans find problems” to “problems find humans” model, truly advancing low- and unmanned environmental operations. 

Both parties agreed that this exchange not only refreshed the understanding of traditional wastewater plant operation models but also laid a solid foundation for deep cooperation in project piloting, joint technology development, and system integration. 

 4. Looking Ahead: Using Technology as Wings to Build a New Environmental Ecosystem

This “technical exchange + on-site inspection” deep interaction was both a concentrated showcase of Hongtai Huarui’s AI environmental protection technology strength and an important practice of Shanxi Lvjie's proactive embrace of intelligent transformation.  

In the future, Hongtai Huarui will continue to deepen R&D and implementation of core AI environmental technologies, continuously iterate the FyhoneOS system, and improve the human-vehicle-equipment collaborative ecosystem, helping more environmental protection partners achieve low-manpower, unmanned, and intelligent operations.  

Human-vehicle-equipment empowerment in the environmental protection industry—a green revolution driven by AI—is accelerating its arrival.