Newly launched Idrica brings digital consultancy to new markets

摘要

The inception last month of Idrica, a company dedicated to digital consul-tancy, aims to build on its experience implementing GoAigua smart technology to take water utility digitisation to emerg-ing markets. Idrica's launch has been the culmi-nation of over a decade of work. In 2006, Aguas de Valencia (now branded as Global Omnium - see GWI September 2017, p52) began experimenting with digital process-es and infrastructure to optimise efficiency and detect leaks. The platform it developed integrated smart metering, billing system management and real-time data gathering with digital modelling to visualise every process across the utility's water system. Seeing a market for this beyond Global Omnium's area of operations, GoAigua was spun off in 2018 to export the technol-ogy.