The installation under the TransformAr project in the Oristanese Pilot Site (Marceddì and San Giovanni Wetlands) is now officially complete, with four sensor towers positioned in the lagoon, a smart gate connected and a birdwatching station.
These sensors, powered by solar energy, will collect real-time data on water quality, salinity, temperature, and levels—crucial information to support adaptive water management and improve ecosystem resilience in the face of climate change.
These infrastructures are able to activate automatically in response to the detection of anomalies in the lagoon conditions. The four sensors are distributed at strategic points in the pond, powered by solar energy, and are ready to deliver real-time collection of data on salinity, temperature, water level, and quality. Crucial information to identify early potential risk situations, such as excess salinity or sudden rises in water level.
The smart gate, or intelligent sluice gate, can activate automatically based on the data detected, regulating water flows in or out of the lagoon. A birdwatching station, with a double view of both the western and eastern parts of the San Giovanni pond, which evokes in style the typical fishermen's huts of the past made of reed mace, completes the supply.
"With this system we will not control the entire flow of the lagoon nor solve all the problems related to its management," explains Manuela Puddu, Wetland4Change reference for MEDSEA, "but we are starting a path towards supporting a more automated and adaptive management of water flows, essential for the protection of fishing stocks and to increase the resilience of the lagoon ecosystem to climate change."
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