- Big data, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence … CIHEAM Zaragoza’s international master’s on water management addresses “digital water” technologies.
Gabriel Anzaldi during a lecture of CIHEAM Zaragoza’s international master’s programme on water management.
The students of the international master’s programme on water management at CIHEAM Zaragoza have dived into "digital water". Top experts in the matter have guided them through the use of new technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), big data or artificial intelligence to increase efficiency and improve risk prediction and management in the water sector.
The master’s programme, organized by CIHEAM Zaragoza with the collaboration of the Spanish National Institute for Agriculture and Food Research and Technology (CSIC-INIA) and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), trains future decision-makers in the field of water management and governance in natural and agricultural environments from an integrated, multidisciplinary perspective.
Gabriel Anzaldi, director of Scientific and Technological Development at Eurecat-Technology Centre of Catalonia, is one of the 90 lecturers from 16 countries teaching on the master’s. He addresses the role played by digital transformation in water management and governance.
Anzaldi explains that "from Eurecat we deliver a module that we call digital water where we try to bring together all the technologies that accompany digital transformation, with a disruptive role, and explain how they can be applied to manage the integrated water cycle, especially in agriculture. We talk about big data, artificial intelligence, digital twins, or cybersecurity among others”.
BENEFITS OF WATER SENSORS
The master’s also offers a vision from the technology business world in questions related IoT. Valeria Shimkevich is Agrifood Business Development Manager at Libelium, a company that designs and manufactures IoT technology and delivers a module focusing on water sensors.
In this video she presents the benefits associated to the use of this technology in fields such as agriculture, aquaculture and protection of the environment.