About us

We are realizing remote control systems for management of water and gas networks, automation and information management.

Thanks to decades of experience and of advanced technologies we are experts in our sector. We help public utilities to control and manage their water or gas network, to optimize their cost and to guarantee a high service level to their customers.

Our story

• 1996 – ID&A was founded in Milan on the initiative of a group of professionals who are experts in the design and implementation of complex systems in the integrated water cycle, water purification and sewage system management.
• 1999 – Project Automation Srl joins the company by merging its own water cycle remote control sector.
• 2003 – Carlo Gavazzi Impianti S.p.A. enters into society as a partner, gives it a strategic impulse and enriches it with new professional skills.
• 2005 – A new branch in southern Italy is added, in order to guarantee more effective territorial coverage.
• 2013 – Together with BM Padova and ETC Trento, it establishes Integrated Watercare Solutions (IWS), a company network specialized in the integrated water cycle.

Our values

We believe in quality and innovation. We feel responsible for the service we are offering our customer and therefore we are following a professional ethics :

• We have an evolutionary innovation approach: we adopt open technology platforms to safeguard past investments.
• We select the best industrial, tested and reliable technologies.
• We pay the utmost attention to system reliability and after-sales service.
• We focus our applications on the optimization of economic and environmental factors.
• We integrate supervision and control systems with company management systems (industrial intelligence).

We believe in environmental substainability :

• I.D.&A supports BAM – Biblioteca degli Alberi Milano contributing to the care of a contemporary botanical urban park that intends to offer an open air cultural programming open to all.

Our service

We design and implement “turnkey” systems in these application areas:

• Remote control of water networks.
• Remote control of gas networks.
• Automation of large plants (purifiers, potabilizers, etc.)

Integration of automation and remote control systems with enterprise systems (GIS, ERP, etc.)
We do not manage only the most modern technological solutions, but we also integrate already installed solutions. In this way our customers can activate important innovation programs containing investments and lead times, and minimizing the impact on the operation of the existing infrastructure.

After completing the project, we follow the customer with personnel training services, technical assistance, maintenance contracts built on their needs, so as to optimize operating costs and return on investment.

Why you should choose us ?

We give you not only one, but six very good reason to choose our service.

• You can guarantee your users always excellent quality of service. The certainty of receiving timely alarms and events, even if there are faults that degrade the functionality of the remote control system, allows you to guarantee a high level of availability and a high quality of service to your users.
• Make maintenance efficient. The possibility of keeping the distribution network under control allows to make both corrective and preventive maintenance effective and efficient.
• Reduce energy consumption and environmental impact. A continuous and sophisticated monitoring of remote devices allows to reduce energy consumption and environmental impact, also through a continuous analysis of the efficiency of the distribution network.
• Keep the costs of routine activities. Centralized remote control and parameterization features allows to automate expensive routine activities.
• You always know when it’s time to upgrade or replace the implants. The data collected by the remote control system make an essential contribution to the evaluations used to improve the decisions regarding the replacement or improvement of the plants in operation.
• You can easily and accurately calculate operating costs. Important operating data can be taken from the remote control system, processed and passed to the company management system (ERP), so as to finalize and balance operating costs.

Remote control for water and waste water :

For more than 20 years your reliable partner

Have a look at our past: we have worked for the most important Italian companies in the water and waste water sector.

Turn into the present: technology and efficiency for your remote control system.

Take care of the future: open source platforms are reliable and respect standards.

For more than 20 years we are next to the most important Italian multi utilities

We are able to integrate outdated products and complex situations into a platform which is customized, efficient, simple to use and technologically advanced. Data warehouse, cloud, IOT: thanks to us they are just reality.

• 199 SCADA systems delivered.
• 20.103 RTU controlled.
• 1.018.678 I/O managed.
• 46 Utilities.

We are promoting innovation by integrating virtual technologies with infrastructures. The creation of smart cities based on energetic efficiency and of protection of water resources is our mission.