Hidralia and DINAPSIS have presented their network of operating hubs at Greencities, with which they are carrying out the digital transformation of water management, environmental health and the ecological transition of municipalities

Hidralia, an Andalusian environmental company specializing in comprehensive water management, has been present at Greencities, the 12th edition of the Urban Intelligence and Sustainability Forum, which took place at the Malaga Trade Fair and Congress Center (FYCMA).

The company has become a benchmark in the digital transformation of cities, the central theme of this meeting, thanks to DINAPSIS's innovative solutions for managing the integral water cycle, which has been, precisely, the fundamental axis of the exhibition space of the company. DINAPSIS, which is located in Andalusia on the Costa del Sol, is a digital operations center that encompasses a network of digital transformation hubs for the management of water, energy, environmental health and the ecological transition of the territory.

Faced with the challenges that climate change poses for municipalities, Hidralia, belonging to the Agbar Group, is committed to the Digital Transformation of operations and processes in the field of comprehensive water cycle management and environmental health and offers collaboration and innovative solutions to administrations, companies and citizens to achieve more sustainable territories in their roadmap towards the ecological transition to achieve the objectives of the 2030 Agenda.

The incorporation of the most innovative technology together with operational experience, called 'Operational Intelligence', manages to perfect the management of resources in real time and allows the complete transformation of urban management of the water and environmental cycle. In this way, DINAPSIS makes it possible to contribute to the development of smart, resilient and green cities through different technological solutions that range from total sensorization of water cycle networks to real-time monitoring and control, the incorporation of digital twins, the big data, artificial intelligence, computer vision or machine learning to the measurement of air quality or connectivity with civil protection centers to coordinate emergency situations such as major floods, among a wide range of solutions.

This network of hubs offers a suite of solutions to optimize the management and improve the maintenance and upkeep of infrastructures, as well as the reduction of leaks, water quality control, remote reading and work management through planning centralized. This enables rapid decision-making in the face of unforeseen events and presents digital solutions to advance the sustainable development of localities and improve their resilience, by reacting to climate crises immediately and in a coordinated manner to reduce the impact on citizens.

DINAPSIS also adapts to the specific needs of each territory, developing new solutions through collaboration with third parties (startups, universities, administrations, technology centers, companies, etc.) and establishing direct contact between citizens and companies, via the showrooms. , where all the avant-garde initiatives and technologies developed together with the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the region are presented, with the aim of disseminating the excellence of the city and the territory. In addition, they aim to raise public awareness about responsible water management through games, augmented reality and other educational media.

The company has shown its experience in the digital and sustainable transformation of cities in different Greencities roundtables. In this way, Juan Antonio Imbernón, director of Urban Solutions at AGBAR, has participated in the round table 'Energy transition: redefining the energy model', highlighting the development of new energy models to move towards carbon neutrality and combat climate change; in the paper 'Companies and Circular Economy. Gonzalo Jiménez, director of Transformation and Sustainable Development of Hidralia, participated in the event beyond the economy of recycling, exposing the most cutting-edge practices in terms of actions in the field of Circular Economy within the management carried out by the company; and Miguel Ángel Benito, Director of Business Development at AGBAR, spoke about 'Smart Water', highlighting "intelligent water management as a tool for urban sustainability", taking advantage of the occasion to point out examples of how this intelligent water management becomes a key tool for sustainable urban development, improvement of quality of life and protection of citizens.

During Thursday's session, Antonio Sánchez, Director of Innovation at the Hub Dinapsis Benidorm, participated in the presentation 'Challenges and new opportunities', showing examples of solutions that help improve the environmental and socioeconomic sustainability indicators of tourist destinations.

Greencities is the reference meeting of all the agents involved in the construction of smart and sustainable cities in Spain. Institutions, public administrations, companies and professionals meet at Greencities to project the cities of the future in a forum in which technology and sustainability are its central axes.