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Africa: the quality of "Made in Italy" for the energy and agrometeorological world

November 2022

CAE technology has been chosen for stations in Mozambique and Sierra Leone, where the importance of the quality of solar radiation data for energy production and meteorological data to support and strengthen agriculture is recognised as fundamental…

CAE wants to meet you at the Natural Disasters Expo Asia

November 2022

Mark the 7th & 8th of December on your calendar. We’ll be at the Singapore EXPO to exhibit at this year’s edition of the Natural Disaster Expo Asia (flood, storm, wildfire, earthquake…). We are also among the speakers! Get your FREE ticket and see you at stand n.643…

Fire emergency: better safe than sorry. The solution offered by CAE

September 2022

In this hot summer, the fires have tripled compared to the historical average. Italy is burning from North to South: not only Rome, but also Puglia, Sicily, Tuscany, Lombardy, Friuli... The situation is alarming. For this reason we want to investigate what technologies are available to identify areas at risk and detect the ignition of fire outbreaks to promptly intervene...

The RÆVO radio modem used to overcome technological lock-in situations

July 2022

The RÆVO radio modem, which operates in the UHF range, is optimized to transport the modern protocols of the IoT world, such as IP standards, while maintaining the setting for the old Modbus. It has already been chosen by various Regional Administrations, including those of Piedmont, Umbria and Campania, to overcome the "technological lock-in" of the systems and shorten the collection times for field measurements. Orders for this device in less than two years from its launch on the market exceed 1,300 units...

Campania: update of the Civil Protection network to monitor hydro-meteorological and hydraulic risk

July 2022

Goal: maximum openness and interchangeability thanks to the protocols of the IoT (Internet of Things) world. The network of the Civil Protection Multi-risk Functional Centre of the Campania Region, consisting of over 250 devices, will be based on the IP protocol, in particular thanks to the RÆVO multi-protocol radio modem...

Overcoming lock-in situations: the open hydro-meteorological network of the Aosta Valley Region

July 2022

An ambitious goal that the Regional Administration has achieved with an innovative project, which is now a reference for the entire National Public Administration. Today the network is made up entirely of open and latest generation technologies and has about 100 installations, including stations and repeaters, of which 28 are stations installed above 2000 m above sea level...

Warning system on the island of Luis Vargas Torres in Ecuador

July 2022

CAE has won the tender for the supply and installation of the rapid flood warning system on the island of Luis Vargas Torres in Ecuador which is located at the mouth of the Esmeralda river, an area where exceptional tidal peaks are very common. The proposed system…

Update of the Italian national agro-meteorological network

April 2022

CAE has won the CREA tender for the supply and maintenance of 39 meteorological stations of the Italian national agro-meteorological network. The measured agro-meteorological quantities are used for the reconstruction of meteorological events and the monitoring of the agricultural season. The sensors used include: rain gauges, radiometers, thermo-hygrometers, leaf-wetness sensors, thermometers for surface and soil temperatures...

Measurements of soil moisture and snow water equivalent: the revolution starts with cosmic rays

April 2022

The collaboration between CAE and Finapp aims at revolutionizing the way these important measures are performed. The solution that has been developed integrates the innovative probe, patented by the Venetian start-up, which uses CRNS technology to measure soil moisture and Snow Water Equivalent on a range basis, in depth and in real-time. The advantages compared to point sensors suggest that this will be the new technological standard and it will have an important impact in agriculture, as far as the mitigation of hydrogeological instability and the prevention of wildfires are concerned...

Emilia-Romagna: the new agro-meteorological network is open hardware

April 2022

CAE has won the tender for the updating of the agro-meteorological network of Emilia-Romagna Region, managed by Arpae. After a first development phase of the open source monitoring station project, called "Stima", 44 new automatic agro-meteorological stations will be installed and equipped with...