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At the same time as the increasing digitalisation of drinking water supplies and wastewater treatment plants brings economic and ecological advantages, new threats are emerging that must be responded to quickly and consistently.

«As an automation technician, I am responsible for building and commissioning electrical controls, apparatus, machines and automation systems and for the associated technical documents. Here at STEBATEC, for example, I assemble flowmeters, test and calibrate them, because they have to measure accurately – a very interesting field of work!

A new hydraulic engineering laboratory in Vienna offers BOKU (University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna) unique working opportunities worldwide to solve scientific and practical questions on the topics of flood protection, watercourse morphology, sediment transport, hydropower and ecology.

While trade fairs arise and disappear again in Switzerland, STEBATEC recognised IFAT in Munich early on as a stable pillar in the market and used it to publicise innovations.

What is the effective benefit of dynamic duct network control? How long do the measurement data have to be to enable a reliable assessment? Which evaluation criteria should be taken into account?

STEBATEC has been working as the electrical planner for the underground sewage treatment plant in Zermatt, which was built into the rock under the Matterhorn, since 2007.

INKA experience in your own company. What the INKA system has changed in their operations and how the region’s water bodies are affected by it, we will hear first-hand from the people in charge of the operation.

STEBATEC was responsible for measuring and monitoring the amount of mountain water entering the Gotthard tunnel, as well as any alarms, on the NRLA construction site, which is highly regarded throughout Europe.

Finding the balance between innovation and consistency is certainly relevant. Every day we are also motivated by exciting projects and the partnership-based cooperation with customers.

In his presentation, Reto Battaglia will tell us what requirements the supervisory authority of the Canton of Berne has set for the integral consideration of wastewater treatment plants, networks and water bodies and therefore for the dynamic control of the sewer network.