in Barcelona
3 to 5 Nov 2026The Diputación Provincial de Soria has formalised a contract worth €121,090 for the procurement of level sensors as part of Phase I of the SOcial Agua Rural (SOAR) programme aimed at digitalising the water-cycle infrastructure across the province.
The publicly-owned company TRAGSA awarded the contract to Orionis Smart Water Networks S.L.U., a Vigo-based firm specialising in IoT water-network solutions. Under the eight-month agreement, the supplier will deliver approximately 20 deep-well probes and about 402 reservoir sensors, to cover more than 100 municipalities and over 300 population centres in the province.
Financing for this contract comes from the strategic PERTE Digitalización del Ciclo del Agua initiative managed by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge and fed by EU Next Generation funds via the national recovery plan.
The sensor deployment will enable real-time telecontrol of well abstractions, remote management of storage reservoirs, sectorisation of distribution networks to detect leaks, and automation of municipal-green-space irrigation. It forms part of a broader system modernisation strategy designed to improve service efficiency, reduce water losses, and tighten oversight of discharges and overflow events.
In a wider context, the SOAR project is expected to digitalise the water-cycle infrastructure in 121 municipalities covering 320 population centres in the province, with a total estimated investment of €22.6 million (of which about €19.3 million is EU-subsidised) under the PERTE framework.
