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The Smart Water project allows citizens to access a mobile In a further step towards the Smart management of public
application, developed on the am+ platform, with which they services, Aqualia is implementing in Santander revolutionary
are able to know their consumption in real time, inform or be solutions to water management through the “Smart Water,
informed of any incident in the service, detect fraud, optimize Smart Citizens” project, a pioneer project in Europe, focused on
energy management, access news on supply and sanitation, in the “trenchless” technology for rehabilitation of large diameter
addition to monitoring sanitation networks for possible flooding. supply lines.The project applies the Primus Line technique, which
enables fast assembling, minimizing environmental impact and
The SmartWater software is operational in the Nueva Montaña inconvenience to citizens.
neighbourhood in Santander and it is intended to be deployed
soon in other parts of the city. Aqualia participated in 2014 inthe
main Congress on “Smart Cities”, as
thethirdyear ofthe “Smart Cities &
Communities” Congress held in Vigo,
the firstyear ofthe Small and Medium
Smart Cities Congress in Alcoy or
the fourthyear of Smart City World
Congress in Barcelona
Emilio Fernández during his participation at the “Smart Cities & Communities”
trade fair which introduced the Smart Water project implemented in Santander.
Distinctions
AQUALIA IS AWARDED THE PRIZE FOR BEST
POSTER AT AN INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS HELD
IN ESSEN, GERMANY.
The scientific poster submitted by Nicolás Morales, a
researcher at Aqualia, has been chosen by the jury of the
“Activated Sludge - 100Years and Counting” International
Congress as the best of the 56 submitted at the event
organized by IWA (International Water Association) in
Essen (Germany).
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