Research in the area of water: automatic control networks

Fresh water is a scarce resource. Population growth, the intensification of agriculture and the industrial use of water have put great pressure on this resource, placing its sustainability at risk. Since the 1950s, governments have carried out control analyses that enabled them to determine the evolution of water quality. Nevertheless, the speed with which pollutant dumping has taken place has made it necessary to create automatic networks for controlling water quality in real time. The Spanish government have been, and continues to be a pioneer in setting up such networks, which have proved to be a tool that has great complementary utility for the periodical analyses that are carried out in the laboratory. The setting up of these networks requires the availability of specific measuring technologies, communication systems and data processing, and thus since its earliest days, Adasa Sistemas has been committed to R+D, and has since succeeded in becoming a model at the European level. The continuous collaboration between the company and different research centres enables it to continue moving forward in the enlarging and improvement of these networks.