Water Provides Automation Opportunities in Italy

每个人都知道水的重要性 - 主要的全球资源。意大利对此充满了富裕Siemens AG (www.siemens.com)，总部位于德国的工业和自动化供应商。旧且管理不良的分销系统完成了图片：13,000个管道，总长度为270,000公里，大约十年前建造，没有综合计划，这是由于许多没有共同管辖权的当地社区的特征性意大利政府方法。

According to Siemens, the Italian water market is worth 1.5 billion euros, with a predictable annual growth of 4 percent to 5 percent. Traditionally dominated by municipal companies, this market is rapidly changing with more private companies entering. Some of them have successfully entered the light and gas business, and are looking with great interest toward the water market, especially now that a recently approved law calls for水管理to be assigned to private utilities.

这些公司可以采用与能源和光管理相同的解决方案来控制和监视供水系统，从而创造有趣的协同作用。他们还可以采取行动减少能源消耗，这是意大利焦点并吸引许多大型参与者的另一个问题。

泄漏发现

Many investments are likely to be made in the future to develop new, innovative water treatment processes or to find ways to upgrade old technologies. As far as automation is concerned, discussions are centered on specific instrumentation, automation systems and remote control solutions to discover pipeline leaks or pump failures in real time to solve problems immediately, avoiding waste. Moreover, automated systems are needed to manage places with no human presence, avoiding water emergencies that are frequent in Italy, especially in summer and in the South.

In the end, new plants will needsecurity systems, electric solutions, and heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, among other things. The situation also presents an interesting opportunity for vendors to provide hardware or software systems to control water balance and quality, or to help operators with user-friendly human-machine interfaces.

About the author

Ilaria De Poli, ilaria.depoli@fieramilanoeditore.it, is an editor at Fiera Milano Editore, a magazine covering automation and manufacturing in Italy.

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