The Baotou smart card water meter is a direction for management between the water supply management department and countless users. With the development of the times and science, the use of high-tech products is an inevitable trend.

For property management companies: As the number of residential units and users continues to increase, the water supply company can no longer implement household meter reading and billing for all individual users, but only charges based on the total water meter of the community. Therefore, many property management companies have taken on the responsibility of reading meters and billing for individual users. In this case, it is as if the property management company has received a hot potato: they need to arrange for someone to go door-to-door to read the meter, manually calculate the monthly usage, issue payment notices, and wait for and urge homeowners to pay. Completing so many steps is quite troublesome: homeowners may not be at home, manual calculations are prone to errors, and homeowners may deliberately delay payment, etc. All of this leads to the property management company paying the water bill to the water supply company on behalf of the homeowners, while also expending a lot of human and material resources, making it a thankless task. Situations where property management companies fall behind on water bills owed to the water supply company, resulting in the water supply company stopping water supply to the entire community, occasionally occur. Later, homeowners, property management companies, and the water supply company blame each other, and the interests of all three parties suffer. For property management companies, regardless of whether they are right or wrong, they will inevitably face criticism from homeowners and public opinion, affecting their image. In such an awkward position, what would it be like if property management companies used smart IC card water meters? They only need to arrange for one person next to the computer in the property management office, issue an IC card to each household, and wait for homeowners to come and pay; moreover, property management companies do not need to pay water bills on behalf of homeowners, as each homeowner purchases a sufficient amount of water in advance, sometimes for a month, sometimes for several months, and after paying the total water bill to the water supply company each month, there will definitely be a surplus in their account.

For individual users: I believe everyone has had the experience of using a mechanical water meter: the meter reader knocks on the door, enters the house, records the reading, and issues a payment notice; if the homeowner is often not at home, the meter reader may ask the homeowner to record the reading themselves and write it down on paper. There are many problems with these steps: some homeowners are unwilling to let strangers into their homes, some homeowners do not know how to read the water meter, and many homeowners are unable to pay on time for various reasons, etc. These issues indicate that mechanical water meters can no longer adapt to the development of the times and social progress; people need more user-friendly and convenient tools for measuring water resources.

The IC card smart water meter can solve these problems: no workers entering homes to read meters, no payment notices urging payment, and no requirement for homeowners to read the meter. Homeowners can recharge their cards at the property management company or bank at any time that is convenient for them, and can purchase enough water for a month, several months, or even a year at once.