Santander
unveils its
“Smart Water”
management project
From left to right, José
Carlos Gómez-Sal, rector of
the University of Cantabria;
Íñigo de la Serna, mayor of
Santander; José Luis de la
Torre, director FCC Aqualia’s
rest of the north regional
office, and José Luis Gil, the
city council’s coordinator of
the Strategic Plan during the
press briefing.
Íñigo de la Serna, the mayor of Santander,
unveiled at a press briefing the project to
be implemented in Santander known as
Smart Water; smart water management of
the Water Department thanks to new tech-
nologies.
It will be implemented firstly over the co-
ming months as a pilot project in the San-
tander Nueva Montaña neighbourhood and
will expanded later to the rest of the city.
Attending the event were the councillor for
the Environment, María Tejerina; José Car-
los Gómez-Sal, the rector of the University
of Cantabria; José Luis Gil, project mana-
ger and former councillor of the Regional
Government, accompanies José Luis de la
Torre, director of FCC Aqualia’s rest of the
north regional office.
The project will start as a pilot project in
Nueva Montaña, a neighbourhood in San-
tander where more than 1,200 devices
will be installed over the next five months
which, among its functions, makes it pos-
sible to read the water meters at the home
from a distance, measure the flow, the qua-
lity of the drainage manifold headers, and
regulate the water pressure.
Mobile applications were also developed to
provide users with real time data on con-
sumption, malfunctions, or water cut-offs
thereby enabling them to make decisions
on the consumption or the use that they
make of water. These applications will be
used to inform users of any scheduled wa-
ter cut-offs, information on malfunctions,
or warnings when there is excessive use of
water.
Fernando de la Torre stressed that the
Company has been “wagering on innova-
tion for more than 20 years” and, as proof
of this, he highlighted the fact that it is cu-
rrently managing around twenty projects of
this nature. The rector of the University said
that the project was a “clear example of the
knowledge that the University can provide
which can then be applied to our day-to-
day lives”.
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