Adasa participates in the Spain Smart Water Summit, sharing knowledge on smart systems for sanitation and wastewater treatment management

2025-09-29

Adasa participates in the Spain Smart Water Summit, sharing knowledge on smart systems for sanitation and wastewater treatment management

Adasa brought digital transformation, the integration of technology, data, and experience, and advanced solutions for more efficient sanitation and wastewater treatment management to the Spain Smart Water Summit, organized by iAgua in Madrid. The conference was a high-level meeting point for professionals who are designing the future of the urban water cycle.

Albert Molina, together with Víctor Roca, a technician from the projects, works, and operations department at EPSAR (Entitat Publica de Sanejament d'Aigues Residuals de Valencia), gave a joint presentation entitled “Digital infrastructure for a new approach to wastewater treatment.”

Molina highlighted Adasa's unique approach to digitalization, based on its holistic view of the data cycle thanks to its extensive operational experience in sanitation and wastewater treatment: being open engineering, committed to standardization and agnostic technological integration (multi-platform, cloud/on-premise), and evolving towards hybrid digital twins and AI. Cybersecurity is a strategic pillar that promotes sustainable solutions and accompanies our customers throughout the process.

Adasa's strategic vision for wastewater treatment and sanitation involves complying with key factors such as:

  1. RD 665/2023 and EU regulations → essential digitization for controlling discharges and overflows.
  2. Climate resilience and anticipation.
  3. Optimization and operational efficiency. Reducing impacts, energy costs, and improving daily operations.
  4. Data governance and digital future: Monitoring → prediction → digital twins → smart operation.
  5. European strategy from wastewater treatment to reuse → Reuse requires reliable and traceable data.

Adasa and PERTE
Adasa's contribution to PERTE's purification and sanitation program includes:
1.    10 projects awarded
2.    530 WWTPs undergoing digitization
3.    750 overflow points monitored
4.    60 pumping stations
5.    2,300 new or refurbished control and communication cabinets
6.    4,100 sensors and instruments: level, flow, rain gauges, water quality sensors and analyzers, etc.
7.    4 different digital platforms in use: IoT / Datalakes / Smart Operation / Digital Twin.

Adasa's added value to sanitation and wastewater treatment
Borja Sanz, Director of Digital Solutions, took part in the session on Sanitation and Wastewater Treatment: Innovation and Efficiency in Wastewater Management, with a presentation entitled “The challenge of smart systems in sanitation management.”

Sanz answered the question: How does Adasa address the challenge of intelligent sanitation systems? By deploying integrated solutions from sensors to data analysis and management for decision-making, and by optimizing the integrated operation of sewerage systems, drainage networks, and wastewater treatment plants.
In this way, Adasa optimizes management and minimizes the impact of spills and flooding.

The challenges facing the water sector include significant urban pressure, the effects of climate change, the implementation of new regulations, and the need for increasingly efficient operations.
In this context, and in line with the PERTE projects, Adasa is tackling the digitization of infrastructure, time constraints on implementation, the technical capacity of the market, the management of large volumes of data, the risk of technological integration, and cultural change in management and staff training.

Thanks to real-time monitoring, AI predictions, and digital twins, Adasa is improving the planning, maintenance, and sustainability of its networks.