WEAM4i (Water & Energy Advanced Management for Irrigation) is a European project co-funded by the European Union under the 7th Framework Program within ENV-2013-WATER-INNO-DEMO-1 (Challenge 6.3: Improving resource efficiency), with a budget of 7.6 M € over 42 months. It started on November 1st 2013 and was concluded on April 30th 2017.
The project addresses two of the priorities outlined by the European Innovation Partnership on Water, an initiative of the European Commission (DG- Environment): ‘Water- Energy Nexus’ and ‘Decision Support Systems (DSS) and monitoring’.
The aim of the project is to improve the efficiency of water use and reduce the costs of power irrigation systems. A smart network for the management of irrigation, WEAM4i ICT platform, has been developed to achieve this goal which integrates different information services and smart applications. It gives the possibility for the end-users to act interactively on the rational use of water and energy.
The results of WEAM4i were tested and evaluated in three regions of the European Union covering a wide range of crops, water resources and energy markets: Aragon (Spain), Lower Saxony (Germany) and Alentejo (Portugal).
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