Sardinia: the strengthening of the ARPAS monitoring network is underway

CAE has been awarded the contract with the Regional Agency for the Protection of the Environment of Sardinia (ARPAS) for the supply and installation of new hydro-thermal-rainfall real-time monitoring stations in the main river catchments of the Sardinia Region.

This is an important component under Action Line 2.3.1. "Interventions to improve the quality of water bodies" of the Environment Operational Plan (EOP) FSC 2014–2020. The need to install the new hydrometric and rainfall stations, which emerged in implementation of the objectives set out in the EOP convention, constitutes the completion of the hydro-thermal-rainfall monitoring network managed by ARPAS.

Twelve new telemetry stations are expected to be installed, including nine hydrometric and three rainfall stations connected to the ARPAS monitoring network in xG transmission mode (for the pilot station also VHF radio) and the integration of two rain gauge sensors in existing or upcoming telemetry stations.

The choice of equipment was made on a performance basis consistent with the agency project to create a network with standard equipment and using open protocols in order to allow the entrustment of maintenance management potentially to all qualified economic operators.

For the new monitoring stations, CAE proposed the supply of the Compact Plus model datalogger to guarantee high standards of quality, power, reliability and openness. The patented PG10 rain gauge was then chosen to measure the cumulative precipitation and its intensity per minute.

The monitoring stations will all be equipped with an autonomous power supply system and a real-time data transmission system toward the Sassari and Cagliari acquisition centres of the ARPAS meteorological and hydro-thermal-rainfall monitoring network.


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