Acciona chooses Terranova: smart water metering project starts

This project marks a new path in the digitisation of water networks in Spain, together with Acciona, one of the most important Spanish companies and one of the most advanced in the field of renewable energies. The project focuses on water smart metering, with the management of almost 19,000 smart meters with LoRaWAN technology, in the territories of Andalusia and Castilla - La Mancha. For us this is, after the one with Nedgia, a fundamental additional step in a country that we know better and better and that we want to support more and more in its fight against water scarcity.

The Company

With the acquisition, in 2004, of the company Energía Hidroeléctrica de Navarra, Acciona made the latter its headquarters for the Energy Division, starting the construction of several water plants in Navarra and, subsequently, expanding its activity towards several new technologies, all in the field of renewable energy. With a total turnover of EUR 4.35 billion and a listing on the Spanish stock exchange, Acciona is one of the most important water companies in the Iberian Peninsula, making innovation and sustainability the two main pillars of its mission and vision.

The need

The ruinous scenarios that have played out in Spain over the last 15 years, with long periods of drought and increasingly depleting water reserves, have forced the entire country to take corrective action, as we have already mentioned elsewhere. Water companies have started their own network digitisation process, starting with smart metering, in order to enhance their metering processes and, consequently, multiply the data at their disposal to manage their business in a more sustainable way. Acciona, too, is not exempt from this path and, thanks to the features of TAMM, our smart metering software, it will be able to exploit the full potential of smart metering and the existing assets in its application map, as well as monitor water flows in the network and more easily identify water leaks. In addition, the Navarra company already started with the desire to build up a heterogeneous meter fleet over time, consisting of different meter brands and models, which needed to be managed with a single platform.