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Elliot Cloud, a company dedicated to the development of technological solutions for the management of infrastructures, has been part of the I Technical Committee of the Spanish Network of Smart Cities 2023. The event, which was sponsored by Elliot Cloud, brought together more than 120 public and private agents involved in the sector to share best practices, trends and challenges for further progress in the development of Smart Cities in Spain. 

The event was attended by the company's CEO, Óscar Ruiz Chicoteas part of the panel discussion 'Water management' in which he spoke about the main challenges and opportunities in the digitisation of the urban water cycle and how technological solutions help to manage infrastructures efficiently. "Taking a holistic view of the water life cycle and applying predictive technology, which helps improve water management systems, is key to being economically and environmentally sustainable".said Óscar Ruiz Chicote during his speech.  

A table at which our CEO highlighted that "et is essential to digitise in a meaningful way. We must analyse the situation, know the needs we have and prioritise the objectives we want to achieve in order to apply technology".. 

Likewise, Elliot Cloud's Director of Administration and Public Services, David Galán Gijón, also took part in the conference to share with the attendees the good practice of Elliot Energy as solution for energy and asset management in smart cities within the energy block. Galán defined it as "a platform that has the capacity to have the information and carry out the analysis of the supply points in aspects such as: consumption, the active and reactive ratio, as well as maximum and excess power"..  

Elliot Cloud enables the creation of solutions for the operational and transactional control of infrastructures with different technologies in a common and secure data space for data sharing, allowing management in a smarter, more efficient and sustainable way. 

The Spanish Network of Smart Cities has more than 130 member cities with more than 650 technicians, managers and agents from the public and private sectors. The Association aims to promote and collaborate between cities in order to establish a Spanish network of Smart Cities that promote the automatic and efficient management of urban infrastructures and services.  

Elliot Cloud, dedicated to the technologies applied to infrastructure management, has participated in IWA Digital Water Summit to present their solution Elliot Wateraimed at digitising the complete water cycle. The event was attended by the CEO of the company, Óscar Ruiz Chicoteand the technical director, José Díaz de Greñu.

IWA Digital Water Summitwhich is being held at the Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao until 2 December, has hosted an exhibitor area where Elliot Cloud has had a stand where it has had the opportunity to explain how the company develops solutions for the management of infrastructures linked to the water, energy, industry, buildings and cities sectors. Elliot Cloud enables the creation of solutions for the operational and transactional control of infrastructures with different technologies in a common and secure data space for data sharing, allowing management in a more intelligent, efficient and sustainable way.

The first edition of this fair welcomed technology providers and companies involved in the digitisation of the global water sector. The IWA Digital Water Summit focused on addressing the importance of applying digital technology to the water sector and conveying the importance of using data to improve its services and operations.

Elliot Water, a solution for optimising water use

As part of the programme's activities, the technical director of Elliot Cloud, José Díaz de Greñu, gave a talk on 'Improving the processes of water companies. Energy efficiency, non-revenue water and leaks' in which he explained Elliot Water and how this open source tool helps companies and administrations to digitise the entire water cycle, optimising costs, reducing leaks, managing the assets of organisations and increasing energy efficiency after applying advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to the data captured.

During his presentation, Díaz de Greñu shared two specific use cases in which Elliot Water is currently being applied and how its use contributes to saving energy costs, detecting leaks and reducing unaccounted-for water.

Elliot Cloud, with the purchase and integration of Entorno de Medición Inteligente, reinforces its capacity to apply technology to the management of infrastructures linked to the energy sector, water resources, industry and smart cities.

Elliot Cloud continues its commitment to become a benchmark in the application of technology for the intelligent management of infrastructures, with the purchase and integration of Entorno de Medición Inteligente (EMI), a company that offers technological solutions and services for the measurement and remote reading of devices.

With this operation, Elliot Cloud strengthens its capacity to apply technology to infrastructure management, as EMI's activity contributes to covering the digitalisation needs of strategic sectors such as water and energy; through remote reading systems in primary energy meters, secondary energy (heat or DHW), drinking water, providing solutions in the following areas: water and energy, water supply and energy management. remote control of irrigation infrastructuresThe company is also developing other solutions for smart cities and Industry 4.0.

This acquisition is in line with Elliot Cloud's commitment to the IoT market by constantly incorporating talent since its founding in 2019. The purchase involves the integration of EMI in Elliot Cloud and, therefore, the firm maintains its current structure and incorporates six employees to the Elliot team.

Following this operation, Elliot Cloud is able to deploy, with its own teams, Advanced Measurement Infrastructure (AMI) solutions complementing its widely implemented cloud platform for data acquisition and data processing through algorithms based on artificial intelligence, providing a service end-to-end by bringing the physical and digital worlds together in a native way.

Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is an integrated system of water meters, communication networks and data management systems that enables two-way communication between meter and utility endpoints. Unlike Automatic Meter Reading (AMR), AMI does not require utility or external personnel to collect data. The system automatically transmits the data directly to the cloud platform where, in addition to displaying data, sending alerts, billing consumption, it can detect leaks and water losses after applying the appropriate algorithm.

Technological innovation is thus positioned as a differential factor in this acquisition, so that Elliot Cloud will be able to design and manufacture the necessary equipment to carry out the communication process, simplifying and automating administrative aspects related to the management of data after its reception.

Energy efficiency and optimisation of water use

Environmental awareness and the promotion of energy efficiency driven by public institutions, as well as the regulations of different bodies, both national and community, are creating a favourable scenario for society and companies to actively participate in the changes that are necessary to achieve savings in water and energy management. In this respect, the purchase of the Smart Metering Environment promotes the development of several solutions:

• Tele-reading system for drinking water meters for municipalities and local authorities: through the supply and installation of water meters, remote control of the status of stored water, water intake and consumption in the tank, available volume, detection of leaks and non-revenue water, sectorisation, water quality, chlorine levels, turbidity, etc. is favoured.
• Management of energy consumption in buildings, through the installation of energy meters, cost allocators, domestic hot water and cold water, as well as the management of electricity consumption.
• Intelligent irrigation control systemThis proprietary development, based on a low-latency, highly robust, meshed communications network, allows the control of an irrigation installation for cities or irrigation communities from any location, 24 hours a day, with the web application from a computer, tablet or mobile phone, where an irrigation operation can be started, terminated or programmed.

Elliot Cloud, technology applied to infrastructure management

Elliot Cloud is a native solution for infrastructure management. It is the only one that integrates different technologies and links them together. It enables the management, control and optimisation of infrastructure processes in a single, data-driven software that has made the platform the most cost-effective, robust and comprehensive solution on the market.

Elliot Cloud is being used by infrastructures, not just regionally, but globally. The platform currently monitors more than 1 billion pieces of data a day in the industrial world, manages the Sao Paulo's drinking water networkIt manages more than 30 million utility data that improve people's quality of life, and monitors and analyses more than 25 GWP of renewable energy generation and 6 gigawatts of electricity consumption in a more sustainable way.

The company generates all this with technology made in La Rioja by Riojan talent, and with the conviction that a more efficient and sustainable management of infrastructures adds value to all processes, reducing their complexity and increasing their efficiency, competitiveness and profitability.

Elliot Cloud has recently participated in Drone Future 2022the world's leading drone event. This conference, held from 14 to 16 October in the town of Haro (La Rioja), was an opportunity to present Elliot Sarfly our solution for immediate response in disaster and emergency management.  

Our technical director, José Díaz de Greñu, gave a lecture entitled 'Introduction to the app de Elliot Sarflywhere he explained the solution and the benefits it brings in the management of critical situations thanks to streaming technology. In addition, he gave a live demonstration of the possibilities of use in different critical situations and the advantages and improvements that its use entails in the management and treatment of an emergency. 

During the day he was accompanied byó Luis Manuel Ruiz, product owner, and our colleagues Eduardo Remirez, Olivia Arnedo and Jaime García. 

What is Elliot Sarfly? 

Elliot Sarfly is a powerful real-time communication and viewing tool that helps in the management of disasters, accidents and emergencies to promote faster and more effective intervention by emergency services through streaming technology. 

A combination of hardware, software and real-time services focused on maximising the efficiency of the emergency team. 

Areas of action 

• Streaming in forest fires. 
• Remote health support. 
• Thermal camera for rescue. 
• Reception of data in a fire. 
• Sneaky activities. 
• Citizen security. 

Elliot Cloud's CEO presented the technological solution at the first webinar on 'Keys to digitisation in the water sector' organised by Isle Utilities in collaboration with iAgua

The CEO of Elliot Cloud, Óscar Ruiz Chicotespoke at the first webinar promoted by Isle Utilities in cooperation with iWater, under the title Keys to digitisation in the water sector'.. Professionals from the sector also took part in this event to discuss the most relevant technologies and learn about the most innovative case studies in the sector today.

In his intervention, Ruiz Chicote highlighted the adaptation that water management companies are undertaking to compete in an environment marked by climate change, pollution and population growth.

In this context, he presented the benefits provided by Elliot Water in terms of digitalisation of the water sector. This technological solution, created to manage and optimise the complete water cycle, provides a complete vision and coverage of the problems of the entire process to be able to relate and orchestrate all the management and operation of the systems and devices involved.

The CEO of Elliot Cloud remarked: "The core of the Elliot Water solution must be the analytical capacity, based on integrated information and processes". He also stated that the proposal is "to have a digital twin to know what is happening in real time, and at the same time, to know what may happen in the future".

This agreement, which will favour public-private collaboration, will be valid for a period of four years, extendable for a maximum of four more years.

Elliot Cloud has signed this Thursday a protocol of collaboration with the Rota Town Hallthe University of Cadiz and Bosonit in an event held in the city of Rota to encourage technology transfer between the entities, promote technological innovation and research initiatives and foster the attraction of talent.

The signing was attended by the CEO of Elliot Cloud, Óscar Ruiz Chicote; the event was attended by the Mayor of Rota, José Javier Ruiz Arana, the Rector of the University of Cadiz, Francisco Pinella, and the CEO of Bosonit, Manuel Sáenz Barrio.

This agreement, established in the framework of the public-private partnership, is an opportunity to:

• carry out technological innovation projects;
• to host students on work placements and to carry out bachelor's and master's degree final projects;
• collaborate in R&D&I initiatives and participate jointly in European and national projects,
• and foster technology transfer in digital transformation and horizontal city platform between the four institutions.

The protocol will be valid for a period of four years and may be extended, subject to the agreement of the parties, for a maximum of four more years. During this period, they will also be able to determine and arrange the development of courses, seminars, teaching and research activities and the collaboration of their staff, integrating it into their own academic, professional or business activity.

Likewise, among the objectives that unite the four entities, they have agreed to create a Follow-up Commission that will be the body in charge of planning, promoting, controlling and evaluating the projects that are determined.

This agreement is an important milestone for Elliot Cloud to face new challenges and goals linked to the application of technology to achieve Smart Cities with more sustainable and efficient environments.