{"id":2711,"date":"2025-12-15T00:05:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T00:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consorzioaquarno.it\/senza-categoria\/il-primo-depuratore-a-prevalenza-industriale-in-italia-governato-dallintelligenza-artificiale-e-aquarno\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:28:06","slug":"aquarno-is-the-first-predominantly-industrial-wastewater-treatment-plant-in-italy-managed-by-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consorzioaquarno.it\/en\/general\/aquarno-is-the-first-predominantly-industrial-wastewater-treatment-plant-in-italy-managed-by-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquarno is the first predominantly industrial wastewater treatment plant in Italy managed by artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Consorzio Aquarno, based in Santa Croce sull\u2019Arno, has launched a pioneering project at national level, becoming the <\/span>first predominantly industrial wastewater treatment plant<\/span> in Italy to integrate artificial intelligence systems<\/span> (AI) into its wastewater treatment processes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to the collaboration with the Tuscan company <\/span>DBS – Data Brain Services<\/span>, the plant is moving from a reactive management model to a <\/span>predictive<\/span> one, based on data, sensors, and machine <\/span>learning<\/span> algorithms. The goal is to optimise in real time the use of compressors<\/span> and other machines operating at the plant<\/span>, <\/span>improve <\/span>the regulation<\/span> of chemical reagents, and strengthen <\/span>water management <\/span>during intense weather events<\/span>, improving efficiency and reducing environmental impact.<\/span><\/p>\n

The new system:<\/span><\/p>\n\n

\u2022 <\/span>will enable<\/span> a <\/span>significant reduction in energy consumption<\/span>,<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2022 <\/span>optimises the use of chemical reagents<\/span>,<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2022 <\/span>strengthens the stability of the biological process<\/span>,<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2022 <\/span>and enables <\/span>better control of extreme weather events<\/span>, such as floods.<\/span><\/div>\n

The plant, which treats urban and industrial wastewater every day equivalent to more than <\/span>2 million inhabitants<\/span>, is equipped with more than <\/span>60 field sensors<\/span> and over <\/span>250 analytical parameters<\/span> monitored by the laboratory. <\/span>This data is a valuable source of information that will be used both to train the artificial intelligence and, once<\/span> processed<\/span>,<\/span> to support operational decisions, in full compliance with the European <\/span>AI <\/span>Act<\/span><\/span> (EU Regulation 2024\/1689).<\/span><\/p>\n

The entire system will be fully operational <\/span>by July 2025<\/span>, ahead of schedule, and is already considered a <\/span>replicable model of sustainable innovation<\/span> for other Italian plants and industrial districts.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Consorzio Aquarno, based in Santa Croce sull\u2019Arno, has launched a pioneering project at national level, becoming the first predominantly industrial wastewater treatment plant in Italy to integrate artificial intelligence systems (AI) into its wastewater treatment processes. Thanks to the collaboration with the Tuscan company DBS – Data Brain Services, the plant is moving from a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consorzioaquarno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consorzioaquarno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consorzioaquarno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consorzioaquarno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consorzioaquarno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2711"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/consorzioaquarno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2721,"href":"https:\/\/consorzioaquarno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions\/2721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consorzioaquarno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consorzioaquarno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consorzioaquarno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consorzioaquarno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}