In China, with the rapid development of technology and the accelerating pace of urbanization, the environmental sanitation industry is becoming an important part in maintaining the urban and rural environment, and promoting the livable, resilient, and smart cities. Whether a company can become the main force of this industry mainly depends on its investment in technology and the level of digital operation management. Clean Pro Group Co., Ltd., as the Standing Board Member of China Association of Urban Environmental Sanitation, emphasized innovation since its establishment. With its own R&D team, Clean Pro Group Co., Ltd dedicated to promoting leapfrog development in the whole industry through digitalization.
Industries vary in their technological attributes and innovation foundations. For the environmental sanitation industry, management has long been mainly experienced-based, extensive, and people-oriented. Due to the vast differences in work scenarios, input factors, and work standards, the industry’s digital management has mostly remained at the informatization and visualization stages, lacking comprehensive integration with business practices and struggling to effectively support efficiency and quality improvements. Based on a deep understanding of industry characteristics, Clean Pro Group drives innovation through digitalization, achieving dual improvements in quality and efficiency, and promoting the digital reshaping of the traditional environmental sanitation industry.
The Urban Public Service Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Management Platform is a self-developed, full-business chain digital product by Clean Pro Group, with smart environmental sanitation at its core. It encompasses multiple urban public service management systems including environmental sanitation, landscaping, garbage sorting, civility guidance, and emergency rescue. By constructing quality dashboards, it achieves transparent and visible operation processes and real-time evaluation of work quality and efficiency. This undoubtedly represents a major upgrade for the industry compared to the previous extensive management method that relied entirely on post-event sensory experience judgments.
In Ningbo, a leading Chinese port city for cargo throughput, urban environmental issues are complex due to factors such as high container truck traffic. To implement efficient and precise operational plans, specialized detection vehicles equipped with road dust sensors and AI-powered pollutant recognition systems patrol the city. These vehicles collect and analyze data on road pollutants and dust accumulation, generating spatiotemporal pollution maps and providing cleanliness assessments and treatment recommendations. The MES platform utilizes the data to optimize operational plans, frequencies, and equipment deployment, enabling data-driven, precision management.
The application of road dust detection and AI pollutant recognition technology in the environmental sanitation industry not only achieves the goal of rapid response and effective quality improvement through optimal human-machine collaboration and mechanical combinations, but also determines pollution patterns in different road sections through data analysis. For non-natural and sporadic pollution events, the system supports governmental solution formulation and facilitates proactive prevention through public guidance, marking a shift from reactive to preventive environmental governance. For example, in the city of Heshan, Guangdong Province, Clean Pro’s specialized civility guidance team conducts motorcycle patrols, focusing on areas and times prone to man-made pollution events, thus preventing environmental issues at their source.
With AI pollutant recognition and dust detection as eyes, MES platform data analysis as brain, and intelligent multi-functional equipment as hands, the technologically armed Clean Pro Group is playing an important role in urban public affairs services, public facility maintenance, and public order maintenance as a smart city housekeeper. This new quality service forces not only shine in urban cities but also perform excellently in rural environment improvement and remediation work.
In the city of Huangshan, Anhui Province, a renowned tourist destination, Clean Pro Group manages a comprehensive rural project covering over 9,100 square kilometers and serving more than 1.1 million rural residents. Addressing the problems of mountainous and densely forested areas, highly dispersed villages and populations, and outdated traditional garbage collection and transfer models, Clean Pro Group has built a digital management platform for operational management, achieving visual supervision and efficient intelligent dispatching. They use drones and unmanned boats for inspection to solve the problem of hard-to-find and difficult-to-clean sanitation blind spots. They have established a collection and transfer system that covers the entire area, with daily production and daily clearing of garbage without ground accumulation, forming the “Huangshan Mode” of environmental governance characterized by “smart leadership, systematic operation, quality service, and social co-construction”. As an environmental sanitation enterprise, it plays an equally important role in rural revitalization.
By continuously cultivating and strengthening new quality service forces in environmental sanitation through technological innovation, Clean Pro Group has, in just a few years, expanded its operations to 37 cities across 19 provinces in China. Beyond improving urban and rural environments through digitalization, the company’s growth is accompanied by strategic planning for the future development and advancement of the environmental sanitation industry.
