Buenos Aires, Argentina: network upgrade and training for Hydrological Institute technicians

In the last week of August, as part of the “Modernisation of the Blue Flood Alert and Implementation of Artificial Intelligence for Risk Assessment” project, technicians at the Instituto de Hidrologia de Llanura de Azul (IIHLLA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, took part in network upgrade and training activities.

In 2007, the IIHLLA equipped itself with CAE hydro-meteorological stations to monitor rainfall and flood risk levels and to improve agricultural practices (to find out more click here). Today, all SPM20 stations have been replaced by the more innovative and high-performance CAEtech Compact data loggers, which were easily added to the existing network, preserving all supporting infrastructure. The new DATALIFE Platform software platform was also provided. It is a natural evolution of its predecessor Mercury, but is more suited to modern IT security and reliability requirements.

The training was delivered by Francesco Pastorelli, a senior analyst in CAE's Engineering Department, and offered the following:

- information about the potential of the instrumentation provided;
- details of how the new software works;
- practice in the field.

The technical staff of the IHLLA are now also up-to-date with the latest innovations, so that they can independently continue to successfully manage their network and its maintenance successfully to keep it in good working condition, as they have always done since 2007. The skills of the local technicians and the efficiency of the system were immediately put to the test. In fact, the weekend after the course saw the Santa Rosa blizzard, the most violent storm in South America, which strikes every year towards the end of August, and during which everything worked perfectly.


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