Adasa shares the keys to digitising the urban water cycle with Dual FP students in Benidorm

 

Jordi Cros, Head of Innovation at Adasa, presented the technical keys to digitising the urban water cycle at the 5th Water in Professional Training Conference organised by IES Beatriu Fajardo de Mendoza in Benidorm. For Adasa, this initiative promotes its strategic commitment to vocational training, understood as a key investment in the future of water.

Cros has focused on how digitisation can transform field signals into traceable, measurable and actionable decisions. The starting point is reliable sensor technology capable of continuously capturing the necessary variables which, after passing through robust communications and being stored in data architectures designed for growth, are converted into usable information thanks to technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and digital twins.

On this basis, Cros explained that the digitisation of the urban water cycle is based on three pillars:

1. Knowledge of what is happening, through sensors that report on water quantity or quality control parameters, and which incorporate capabilities such as sending the corrected measurement or automatic detection.
2. The integration of this data into control centres, in order to use tools that, after processing this data, support decision-making, anticipate incidents and prioritise actions, optimising resources (energy, reagents and assets).
3. And finally, the execution of these actions through the automation and remote control of facilities in real time, which allows for the standardisation of operations and improves service continuity.

The conference highlighted the need to align training, technology and management in order to meet the challenges of efficiency, resilience and sustainability.

Dual FP as a strategic lever
For Adasa, dual vocational training is a strategic decision in line with our vision for the future of the water sector.
The urban water cycle is becoming increasingly digital, automated and technically demanding. However, the labour market does not always evolve at the same pace as technology.

Dual vocational training allows us to reduce this gap, actively contributing to training the technical profiles that the sector needs to operate critical infrastructure with rigour, safety and judgement.

This is not a one-off commitment, but a structural one. During 2025, we have consolidated collaborations with students from several secondary schools in Barcelona, incorporating higher-level students in Industrial Automation and Robotics and Industrial Mechatronics.

At Adasa, we understand that technical knowledge is not only applied: it is transmitted, accompanied and developed. That is why Dual Vocational Training allows us to:

• Train talent in real operating environments.
• Ensure generational renewal in a strategic sector.
• Integrate a culture of safety, responsibility and technical excellence from the outset.

We build our own destiny by training the talent that the sector will need. We are competent when we share applied knowledge.

We work with data and technology, but above all we work with people.