FACSA and the Siero City Council install a new network of remote reading water consumption meters in the municipality

The Siero City Council and FACSA They have completed the project to implement remote reading of water meters within the planned timeframe, with the main objective of optimizing the overall management of their water resources, increasing efficiency and reducing the costs of maintenance and management of the supply network.

The project, which has involved the installation of 12.300 meters - 6.200 in Lugones and 6.100 in Pola de Siero - will allow the city council to have real-time information on consumption, as well as configure alerts in case of a possible leak or very high consumption, avoiding water loss and costs due to excessive consumption.

In turn, the new system will make it possible to take readings remotely without needing to access homes, so that residents can stay up to date on bills for rented homes or homes that are not normally inhabited, among other cases.

All of this is thanks to advanced software and fixed network equipment that sends this data from the meter to the data control center. This data will be processed on a state-of-the-art software platform that FACSA has been made available to the Siero City Council, where all incidents will be analyzed and reports will be prepared that will allow for better management of the water system.

Also, taking advantage of the implementation of this project - which has not entailed any cost for subscribers or additional installations in their homes - those elements that, due to the passage of years, were not working correctly, such as individual shut-off valves, have been renewed.

Similarly, two receiving antennas have been installed, one in Pola de Siero and the other in Lugones, which, thanks to their location and technology, have improved reading coverage, facilitating a greater number of readings by being able to reach internal meters that were previously impossible to read.

The mayor of Siero, Ángel García González, presented the new remote meter reading network at a press conference that also included the participation of Gonzalo García, head of service at FACSA, who pointed out that "the implementation of the new system will allow for intelligent management of the entire supply network and, with it, a very significant improvement in terms of efficiency and sustainability of the water distribution system."