H3C Smart Environment Protection and Pollution Traceability Solution

The expansion of economic development has brought about a continuous increase in people's productivity and living standards, as well as a continuous increase in environmental pressure. The continuous deterioration of the environment will make drinking water, arable land, energy, and other natural resources more and more scarce, which not only threatens the survival of human beings, but also causes various social and economic conflicts. Therefore, on a global scale, environmental protection is increasingly valued by people and placed in a more prominent strategic position. In the Outline of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development, the central government took the GDP growth rate as an expected and guiding indicator, and took the 2% reduction of major pollutants as an obligatory target for economic and social development this year. This fully reflects the central government's high emphasis on pollutant reduction and its firm confidence in achieving the goal. The total pollutant emission reduction target is an obligatory target and must be completed.

To achieve the 2010 energy-saving and emission-reduction targets, it is urgent to establish and improve three systems: a scientific emission reduction indication system, an accurate emission reduction monitoring system, and a strict emission reduction assessment system. The construction of an automatic monitoring system for pollution sources and the automatic monitoring of the pollutant discharge of key national enterprises under monitoring are an important part of the construction of the "three major systems" for emission reduction. Through automation, informatization, and other technical methods, various information, such as the main discharge data of key pollution sources and the operation of pollution abatement facilities, can be collected in a more scientific, accurate, and timely manner. To effectively solve the problems of information collection and transmission in the daily monitoring and early warning of environmental protection and the processing of sudden and major pollution incidents at the provincial and municipal monitoring centers, to allow the national, provincial and municipal monitoring centers to directly access the monitoring data, to grasp the situation at any time, and to meet the needs of environmental monitoring and processing of sudden pollution incidents, an environmental protection information system based on the integration of network, storage, and security shall be established using modern information technologies. The system can provide strong technical and data support for daily monitoring of environmental protection, remote command and decision-making for the processing of sudden pollution incidents, and expert consultation. It greatly improves the efficiency of environmental protection information collection, transmission, and application.

To strengthen the ability of environmental protection departments to monitor the emission reduction of major pollutants from pollution sources, as well as the ability to transmit, process, analyze, and apply the basic information and automatic monitoring data of key pollution sources, environmental law enforcement and public reporting and complaint information data, environmental protection departments at all levels have begun to build pollution source monitoring centers, and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has taken the lead in establishing a nationwide online three-level system for automatic monitoring of pollution sources. The environmental protection departments of all provinces undertake the system construction involving dozens of prefectures and cities and hundreds of pollution source monitoring points in the province, and need to fulfill the construction of data centers at all levels and mutual data synchronization. In the process of construction, they also encounter a lot of technical challenges.

Considering the above requirements and challenges, H3C has provided a comprehensive solution, which covers all relevant aspects such as network, storage, and security, and provides a highly reliable and available support for the system operation.

The storage technology of H3C makes the storage system free from the restraints of protocols and distance, which extends the data service of centralized and unified management of pollution source monitoring data to a wide-area environment, bringing the rich data management functions into full play and creating a new mode of pollution source monitoring informatization.

The monitoring center at each level adopts H3C storage products for centralized storage and management of data in the data center of the superior unit itself. The data of all servers can be stored in the storage device in a centralized way and can be accessed through an independent IP SAN storage network. IP SAN storage technology features high performance, strong stability, and strong expansion capability, and can fully meet the data storage requirements of data centers at all levels for pollution source monitoring. As the provincial center collects the monitoring data of the whole province, a storage system with high performance and capacity is required. It adopts H3C storage system that is developed based on 10 Gigabit storage technology to provide strong support for performance and capacity expansion. For the prefecture-level centers, the medium- and low-end SAS storage devices are used. With the standard IP storage technology, IP SAN storage networks can be directly built for the application systems and servers of each unit through IP NICs and Ethernet switches. Compared with the network storage system built with traditional FC technology, IP SAN greatly reduces the costs of storage network construction and server access, and ensures the convenience for users in later expansion and management.

The construction of the pollution source monitoring system involves the construction of multi-level data centers in provincial and prefecture-level centers. In addition to those in provincial capitals, it also involves the construction of storage systems in dozens of prefectures and cities, as well as subsequent routine maintenance. With more than 30 offices, agencies, and spare part warehouses across the country, H3C can provide users with timely, fast, and thoughtful services, such as maintenance by H3C engineers and spare part supply, to ensure the stable operation of the storage systems to the greatest extent.