Case history

Modernization of the Central Asian hydro-meteorological monitoring system

As part of the project Central Asian Hydro-Meteorological Modernization Project (CAHMP), CAE was assigned the project for supply of hydrological monitoring networks, glaciers, roads and large cities equipped with automatic weather stations” in Kyrgyz Republic.

REPUBLIC OF TAJIKISTAN

Sarez Lake monitoring and Early Warning Systems (EWS)

Within the framework of the Lake Sarez Risk Mitigation Project (LSRMP), CAE and its local partner supplied and installed the new monitoring and Early Warning Systems (EWS) for Sarez Lake, Tajikistan. The system is expected to protect the 17 villages ...

CITY OF UŽICE, SERBIA

Early Warning System (EWS) in City of Užice, Serbia

CAE and its partner implemented the Early Warning System for the City of Užice, consisting of different types of stations and specialized software in response to the probability of flood occurrence in Užice.

GEORGIA AND AZERBAIJAN

Groundwater monitoring system

CAE returns to the Caucasus, winning a tender for the construction of a groundwater monitoring system between Georgia and Azerbaijan. The work is part of a project for the integrated management of water resources throughout the Kura river basin

AOSTA VALLEY REGION

Service for the riverbed discharge measurement

CAE confirmed its professionalism in field surveys and environmental analysis, within the contract Service for the riverbed liquid discharge measurement in the Autonomous Region of Aosta Valley. All the instruments and the technical know-how of CAE are at the disposal ...

CITY OF BELGRADE

Flood monitoring and early warning system for the City of Belgrade

The City of Belgrade is the largest urban settlement in the Republic of Serbia, as well as its administrative and commercial centre. In May 2014, the city suffered substantial damage, in particular in the peripheral area, and that led to ...

ANAS S.P.A.

Monitoring and warning system for roads at risk of flooding in Sardinia

In Sardinia, CAE has implemented a monitoring and warning system focus on the hydraulic and hydrogeological risk, useful for automatically inhibiting the traffic of the SP46 near the Oloé bridge, when the hydrometric thresholds defined by the Civil Protection Plans ...

REPUBLIC HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL SERVICE OF SERBIA

Serbia National Disaster Risk Management Program - Hydrological and UHF equipment

In July 2019, Italian technology has been chosen to implement the new Hydrological and UHF Communication Network in Serbia, within the Project “Serbia National Disaster Risk Management Program”. The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management - Directorate for Water, Republic of Serbia, on ...

SICILY REGION

Integration of the meteorological detection network for civil protection purposes

CAE for the Decentralized Functional Centre-Idro (CFD-Idro) of the Sicily Region: the realization of a single integrated, redundant and flexible meteorological detection system. Useful to support the CFD-Idro in effectively fulfilling its role in identifying and assessing critical conditions resulting ...

SOUTH-CENTRAL VIETNAM

Flood Forecasting and Warning System in the South-Central provinces of Vietnam

Floods in Vietnam represent a constant threat that occur throughout the year in different areas of the Country, affect the safety and well-being of the population and cause enormous economic loss, which in turn hamper the social development. Minimizing flooding ...

CENTRAL HIGHLANDS OF VIETNAM

Real-time river discharge measurements and new monitoring stations to prevent and manage floods

Vietnam Managing Natural Hazards Project (VN-Haz) is a project funded by the World Bank that aims at increasing the resilience of the population and of the local economy to natural hazards in specific watersheds and the related administrative areas. The ...

GEORGIA WATER AND POWER (GWP)

Monitoring and Early Warning System for Jinvali Dam in Georgia

In May 2018, under the mandate of Georgian Water and Power (GWP), the Joint Venture CAE S.p.A. & Field S.r.l. was assigned a project to establish the Monitoring and Early Warning System (EWS) for Jinvali dam in Georgia. The aim ...

ARPAE - Hydro-Meteorological-Climate Service

Adaptation of real-time hydro-meteorological-rainfall monitoring networks related to Emilia Romagna Region’s RIRER network

Project concerning the technological update and reduction to 15 minutes of cycle time of Emilia Romagna Region hydrometeorological network

AOSTA VALLEY REGION

Adaptation, optimisation and maintenance service regarding the “open” network of the meteo-hydrographic telemetric network

The telemetric network of the Autonomous Region of the Aosta Valley originated from the union of four existing networks, with provisions from an equal number of companies, at various times. A call for tenders was launched to adapt the entire ...

PUGLIA REGION - ARIF

An integrated system for environmental monitoring and remote forest fire detection for the regional territory of Puglia

Puglia's regional wooded area presents a high fire risk whilst fire-fighting operations are very complex if not accompanied by technological support systems, capable of introducing innovations in support of the worker’s activities. ARIF has set itself the goal of creating ...

MALDIVES METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE (MMS)

Expansion of the National Meteorological Monitoring Network with 25 new stations and control center

The Maldives are highly vulnerable to natural disasters, especially during the South-West monsoon season, because of their geoclimatic conditions, and these risks clearly affect the profile of physical and socioeconomic vulnerability of the country. Extreme events , including flash flooding, ...

CIVIL DEFENCE OF ABRUZZO

Monitoring and early warning system for the landslide in Borrano - Civitella del Tronto (Teramo)

In February 2017, in the Municipality of Civitella del Tronto, and more precisely in the division of Borrano, has been reactivated by an extensive landslide phenomenon which affected large areas of the territory. Plausible causes of this phenomenon date back ...

ARPAS SARDINIA

New regional climatological network in Sardinia

Sardinian Environmental Protection Agency (APAS) has launched a project to establish the “Regional Climatological Network - 1 st intervention” in order to set up the first stations of a regional network to monitor some climate changes with the greatest impacts ...

CIVIL DEFENCE of ABRUZZO

Monitoring and early warning system for the landslide in Castelnuovo di Campli (Teramo)

In February 2017, a landslide occurred in the Municipality of Castelnuovo di Campli, in the province of Teramo, with caused the collapse along the stream Siccagno, with a front of approximately 80 meters. That was a sudden sinking resulting from ...

CIVIL DEFENSE OF MOLISE

A MONITORING AND EARLY WARNING SYSTEM FOR THE LANDSLIDE IN CIVITACAMPOMARANO (CAMPOBASSO)

After the huge landslide occurred in the Municipality of Civitacampomarano, an automatic monitoring and early warning system in real time has been implemented and tested, aiming at guaranteeing public safety and managing the emergency situation.

PROVINCE OF REGGIO EMILIA

Safety measure for the provincial underpass of Lot 1 - implementation of a monitoring and early warning system for the vehicle underpass in via Contea (on the Provincial Road S.P. 51), in the Municipality of Rubiera

The underpass in via Contea (on the Provincial Road S.P. 51), in the Municipality of Rubiera, has shown some water run-off problems during highly intense raining events which are every day more frequent because of climate change; the evidence of ...

CIVIL DEFENSE OF ABRUZZO

Real time monitoring system for the landslide in the hamlet of Ponzano (Civitella del Tronto)

On February 12, 2017, an extensive landslide occurred in the hamlet of Ponzano (Civitella del Tronto). The instability resulted from the effects on the ground of combined actions caused by the earthquake activities of the previous months and by the ...

AIPO - INTERREGIONAL AGENCY FOR RIVER PO

Integration of non-structural works and measures: the monitoring system for the Panaro River detention basin

The project aims at controlling the interstitial pressures inside the river banks and the foundation soils of the work site, both during the implementation of the experimental basins aimed at works testing ex art. 14 d.p.r. n. 1363/1959, and during ...

ARPA LOMBARDIA

Lombardy region: one network to monitor 36 landslides

Until recently, the situation pertaining monitoring the hydrogeological issues within Lombardy was fragmented, due to installation by local authorities of several monitoring systems to reach out the individual civil defense necessities. This situation did not ensure the efficiency of these ...

CIVIL DEFENSE OF BASILICATA

Project to enhance and maintain the water and rain monitoring network in real time of the Basilicata region.

The Infrastructure, Public Works and Mobility department of the Basilicata region has invested in the Enhancement and maintenance of the water and rain monitoring network in real time project, which had two objectives: Allowing civil defense activities by means of ...

AIPO - Interregional Agency for river Po

Ponte Motta: experimental solution in operation for the embankments monitoring

The system aims to allow AIPO—following suitable processing and correlation of the data obtained—to model the behaviour of the right bank of the Secchia river (in the locality of Ponte Motta, Municipality of Cavezzo, Modena) during and after river overflows ...

CIVIL DEFENSE OF ABRUZZO

PROJECT TO SUPPLY AND INSTALL ALERT SYSTEMS TO PROTECT VEHICULAR UNDERPASSES

Recent climate changes have led to more and more frequent extreme weather events which cause significant difficulties in disposing rapidly of large quantities of water hitting the ground. Vehicular underpasses are particularly vulnerable, since water accumulation may cause dangerous situations ...

PROVINCE of BELLUNO

Debris flow monitoring and early warning system – Cancia – municipality of Borca di Cadore (BL)

The Veneto Region, as a resultof the debris flows which had hit the Cancia district during the previous few years, and in particular the last event on the 18/07/2009, decided to provide the municipality of Borca di Cadore of a ...

SOUTH VIETNAM

Hydro-meteorological monitoring network of the Mekong river delta

The monitoring network system created in the Southern Vietnam was financed by the World Bank to enforce and implement a system that could prevent flooding of the Mekong Delta. The project beneficiary is the National Hydro Meteorological Service of Vietnam. ...

WATER AUTHORITY IN SARDINIA

Automatic monitoring system of water quality in sardinian artificial lakes

The project related to the water quality monitoring system in Sardinia, began following a water supply protection program started in year 2000 and approved in 2006 (see D.L. 152/2006). This act empowers relevant Authorities to create regulation for the conservation ...

ENI S.p.A.

Meteo marine monitoring system

The weather and marine forecast monitoring systems were realized by CAE in 1991, at the request of AGIP S.p.A. They were placed in the Adriatic and Sicily seas, under the accountability of the districts of Ravenna, Ortona and Gela. The ...

CALABRIA REGION

Real-time monitoring system of landslide phenomena - Cirò area

Following the landslide on the night of 1 st of February 2011, the Civil Protection of Calabria region has decided to install CAE landslide monitoring system to help managing the supervision of the area in real time. The landslide caused ...

CENTRAL VIETNAM

Hydro-meteorological monitoring network central provinces

The Central Provinces of Vietnam, dislocated North and South of the coastal city of Da Nang, are periodically hit by heavy rains that, given the orography of the area, causing flash floods. To reduce the risk of inundations and optimize ...

AIPO and ARPAE Emilia Romagna

Expansion and modernisation work on the monitoring and remote control network of the Mincio Basin.

In 2009, AIPO (Interregional Agency for River Po) and ARPAE (Regional Agency for Prevention, the Environment and Energy) in Emilia Romagna decided to implement a monitoring and remote control system for the Mincio Basin, to help defend the city of ...

HIDROCAPITAL VENEZUELA

Integrated monitoring of three reservoirs in the proximity of Caracas

Caracas is situated in a more elevated position than the basins where its water supply comes from. This aspect, in addition to the regional complex orography and the specificity of the climate, make the sourcing and potabilization of the resource ...

ARGENTINA PROVINCE OF BUENOS AIRES

A real-time hydrometeorological monitoring network for the province of Buenos Aires

The final beneficiary of the hydrometeorological monitoring network installed by CAE is the Institute for Flat Lands Hydrology (Instituto de Hidrologia de llanura – HILLA), declared by UNESCO in 2003 the “reference Centre for Flat Lands Hydrology in Latin America ...

EV-K2-CNR ASSOCIATION

A CAE weather and climate station at the K2 base camp

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first climb on K2, CAE, as technological sponsor, supported the EvK2CNR association by providing a weather station to be installed on the last base camp before the summit. This station, installed at approx. ...