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AMGA - Azienda Mediterranea Gas e Acqua S.p.A. |
The AMGA Group works in Italy and abroad, offering not only conventional
network management services (gas, natural gas, electricity, water services,
telecommunications) but also activities involving a high degree of know-how
such as technological support services, technical and organisational assistance,
skill-building programmes and sharing of know-how.
The wealth of experience built up over more than 60 years in the business combined
with rapid, continuous technological innovation has made the Group an authority
in this field today and a highly qualified partner for utility companies an
public authorities looking for solutions offering a quality response to the
problems of environmental protection and networks system management.
Control of our water resources, for the purpose of restoring quality and researching
new sources of supply, has become a high-tech requiring appropriate tools for
definition of significant qualitative and quantitative parameters and methods
for measuring them.
Ongoing continuous monitoring of resources is essential to any kind of effective
intervention and to rational decision-making regarding use of resources with
a view to environmentally compatible development.
AMGA offers public agencies and private businesses its know-how in the field
of "environmental control services" providing scientific support for
planning and management of resources and protection against pollution.
A branch of AMGA's "Research Development Pole" carries out research
activities in order to improve quality and efficiency of environmental control
services in the specific field of water sources. Research activity, often carried
out in the framework of pilot projects or European programmes, is aimed at developing
innovative technologies which allow to better manage the integrated water cycle
and to prevent catastrophic natural events like flood.
Most important research projects carried out in the recent years by AMGA "Research
Development Pole" has been developed in the framework of the Life Environment
Programme funded by the European Commission. The over mentioned projects are:
Life AQUARIUS - AQUA Receiving Information from Underwater Sensors: the project,
carried out from November 1999 to July 2002, developed a system which allows
the control of sea outfall efficiency and the quality of seawater around the
discharge point. A series of hydrophones, installed at the diffuser nozzles
level, registers sound generated by the outcoming flow and transmits data to
a pole beacon called "MEDA". A GSM modem, located in the MEDA, transmits
data to a server which elaborates and display data on web pages. In the same
way, environmental sensors located in a metal shell transmit to the MEDA data
which are visualised on a web page. A prototype is now installed in the pilot
site of the WWTP of Genova Sturla.
Life IMOS - Integrated Multi Objective System for optimal urban drainage: the
project, through real time multi-sensor monitoring (by rain gauges, level detectors,
turbidity monitors, a low cost meteorological radar) of the territory, aims
at achieving an integrated multi-objective management of the drainage system
in the urban environment of Genoa. In ordinary conditions, the project is aimed
at increasing capability of treating the first flush flows and controlling the
pollution load to treatment plants and consequently to recipient water bodies.
In emergencies, the system will allow to forecast and control critical flows
through by-passes and temporary storage by water volumes.
Furthermore, the availability of an integrated model of the whole urban system
will enable the off-line analysis of its response to expected rainfall events
and will allow to assess possible mitigation measures
"Mare Pulito" - in the framework of the environmental initiative "Mare
Pulito" which is carried out each year in order to make aware people and
tourists about pollution of sea water, a low coast monitoring buoy has been
developed. The buoy, moored at the bottom, allows to control in real time principal
parameters of sea water through the transmission to a central server using a
GSM modem.
From the experience acquired during LIFE AQUARIUS and LIFE IMOS projects and
through the skills and the innovative technologies developed in the last years
of works, several monitoring systems are been developed and proposed to Municipalities,
Port Authorities and private companies.
Moreover, Territorial Informative Systems Department of AMGA develops and commercialise
a product, aimed at optimise networks management. This system, called GEOsim,
is a new concept in geographical information system combining all the classic
features of a system of this type with mathematical models and supervision systems.
GEOsim processes territorial information by storing it in a relational database
and displaying it using a common graphic product: AutoCAD.
All the over mentioned activities are carried out within ISO 9001:1994 and VISION
2000 quality system.
AMGA - Azienda Mediterranea Gas e Acqua S.p.A.
Via SS. Giacomo e Filippo 7
16122 Genova, Italy
Tel. 010 558115
Fax 010 5586284
E-mail: info@amgaspa.it
URL: http://www.amgaspa.it