LRC PIANURA FRIULANA
System Automation

At the beginning of 2021, the Consorzio di Bonifica Pianura Friulana, with the need to adapt and extend the monitoring and remote control network of its derivative system, launched a public tender. The technical proposals of Siap+Micros spa were judged the best among those presented also by the other participants, all of a high level and, after the official signing of the contract at the end of November, Siap+Micros spa is now preparing to start the installation of field stations.
The consortium is equipped with an existing network of about 150 hydrometric monitoring stations to which the new 134 stations object of the tender will be added, which will lead the Consortium to have one of the cutting-edge monitoring systems and among the most extensive at national level. The various existing control systems, inherited from the two Ledra Tagliamento and Bassa Friulana consortia which, by merging, gave life to the “Pianura Friulana”, will continue to exist but will be integrated with the new stations object of the contract, in a single homogeneous interface central deadline.

To reduce the encumbrance in the field, the carpentry and sensor supports were designed ad hoc, with the aim of making them as “miniaturized” as possible, limiting the impact on the territory as much as possible and keeping the precious instruments “camouflaged” from the eyes of any malicious vandals. Where the terrain makes it possible, innovative anchoring systems with “screw foundation” plinths will be used, which avoid the use of concrete in delicate rural ecosystems. The very low consumption of the MicroDA data loggers will allow them to operate with small standard lithium batteries, without the need to hoist large photovoltaic panels on high poles.

The supply also includes the updating of the automation systems in the plants of the main hydraulic nodes, located in the Ledra and Tagliamento rivers, from which the Consortium derives the water which is then introduced into the vast network of irrigation canals. With this important contract, Siap+Micros spa consolidates its presence in the “market” of the Consorzi di Bonifica, as well as strengthening and, almost, completing the service to the territory of the nearby region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, where the company already deals with the maintenance of the important monitoring network of the Civil Protection thanks to the award of the corresponding tender.