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The winners of the 2nd Edition of the Paolo Bernardi Prize have been selected
September 2025
The prize was established by the Italian Hydrological Society in order to promote the advancement of research in applied hydrology, and was awarded to: Francesco Alongi, from the University of Palermo, and Giulia Evangelista, from the University of Turin, for the project entitled: “PIX2PEAKS - Velocimetry using imagery to support run-off time estimation in unmonitored hydrographic basins”…
Buenos Aires, Argentina: network upgrade and training for Hydrological Institute technicians
September 2025
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) took part in network upgrade and training activities. Immediately afterwards, the Santa Rosa blizzard struck, during which the system worked and was operated without any issues…
AUBAC presents the new monitoring network for lakes in Lazio
September 2025
High-tech monitoring stations have been installed on Lakes Bracciano, Bolsena, Vico and Albano to hydrological and climatic parameters in real time, in order to support water resource management and prevent emergency situations related to climate change. An alarming drop in water levels has been recorded, as much as -50 cm in some basins…
The CAE management team has been strengthened: interview with new Technical Director
September 2025
Meet Luca Papandrea, an engineer who joined the CAE family in 2009 and has been the company's Technical Director for a year now. His appointment to the role formerly held by CAE's founding partner, Paolo Bernardi, is the result of the owner’s desire to manage the company with a combined managerial and entrepreneurial approach. What is being worked on and what values guide the choices…
Biography of Pedrini
September 2025
With the contribution of family, friends and lifelong collaborators, CAE has produced the biography “Giancarlo Maria Pedrini. A visionary entrepreneur and generous man.” Private and professional stories recount a tale that intertwines the national history of hydrogeological risk mitigation and that of the company of which Giancarlo was a founding partner, and that he helped grow until he unfortunately passed away on 13 April 2020
Training CAE personnel to reduce intervention times
September 2025
As mentioned in recent interviews with Technical Director Luca Papandrea and Head of the Design Department, Ermes Fabbri, the company is working to increase its operational autonomy and thus improve the execution speed of field activities. How? We present some of the solutions identified to achieve this goal…
An article was presented on soil deformation monitoring related to railway tunnel construction
July 2025
Simone Colonnelli - CAE S.p.A. with A. Tamburini - IMAGEO Srl; P. Cancelli, G. Bragonzi, A. Mocchi - Studio Cancelli Associato; S. Cappelletto - BBT SE contributed to the article “Monitoring ground deformation related to the construction of a railway tunnel: example of the Brenner Base tunnel”, which was presented in Venice during the XXVIII National Conference of Geotechnics…
LANDSLIDES: presenting the latest generation Wireless Sensor Networks
June 2025
The new version of the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) proposed by CAE, an evolution of the one used to create data mesh networks in dozens of landslide areas, uses a versatile low-power 868 MHz wireless and offers Modbus standard interfaces. The new management software allows users to design, configure and install the network easily…
Italian and international river basin authorities compared
June 2025
On 19 May, Guido Bernardi, Chairman of CAE S.p.A., spoke at the opening event of the Euro-INBO 2025. During the conference, Italian and international river basin authorities discussed best practices in different countries to plan and implement the EU directives. At the end of the three-day event, Alessandro Bratti was appointed the new General Coordinator of the International Network of Basin Organisations (INBO)…
Miami: CAE at HydrometLAC
June 2025
From May 13th to 15th was held in Miami the symposium organized by Varysian dedicated to the hydrometeorological community of the Caribbean and Latin America area, USA. CAE exhibited and Eng. Alberto Bertocco, International Account Manager, gave a speech entitled: “Multi-Hazard Monitoring and Early Warning Systems: Technologies and Good Practices” in front of the main representatives of the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NHMS) of the target countries…