Success story
MARM and TRAGSA (Balearic Islands) – Water Treatment
- Guarantee the maximum efficiency of the irrigation system, ensuring the quality of supply to all irrigators and facilitating decision-making.
- Recover part of the water from a wastewater treatment plant and reuse it for irrigation.
- Need to include various elements differentiated between them, but general for the seven beneficiary irrigation communities.
- Remote control solution that stores data in real time, in order to automate and optimize the use of water in each plot.
- In turn, a tool that allows you to consult the data stored at any time, obtain comparative graphs and share information with other state and European organizations.
- Creation of consumption forecasts based on the needs of farmers.
- Secure, intuitive and flexible platform for possible future expansions of equipment and requirements.
In 2008, the Ministry of Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs (MARM) opted, among other projects, for the modernization of several irrigation systems in the Balearic Islands as one of the actions of the Irrigation Shock Plan. The objective was to guarantee a productive, sustainable and quality agriculture.
With the new tool to be implemented, the aim was, among other proposals, to recover part of the water from a treatment plant and reuse it for irrigation. In other words, what they were looking for was to modernize several irrigation communities with the common goal of optimizing all irrigation systems involved in the project.
The global solution chosen includes a SCADA with distributed architecture, 3G, GPRS, UMTS, HDPPA, ADSL communications systems, power supply by photovoltaic solar panels and standards such as S88, and provides the critical guidance to achieve a greater understanding of communications.
