Centro Nacional de Tecnología de Riegos (CENTER)

Spain: Madrid

Overview

The National Center for Irrigation Technology (CENTER), created in 1985, is the technological instrument of the Directorate-General for Rural Development to address the challenges associated with irrigation and integrated water resource management.

Among its many activities are: 1)To foster and promote water efficiency and sustainable management in irrigation areas; 2) To become a center of applied research, development, testing, standardization and innovation in cutting-edge technologies for irrigation. 3) To foster and conduct international cooperation for development in irrigation and rural development.

TRAGSA Group as public company supports the Ministry and CENTER in Digital Hubs activities with own R&D resources & projects (http://www.tragsa.es): 

The companies that are collaborating and working in the CENTER are:

Batchline: http://www.batchline.es/
Ingenieria y Control Remoto SA: http://www.icr-sa.com/
REGABER: http://regaber.com/
Isastur :https://www.isastur.com/es/home
Serina: https://www.serina.es/

Also, the involved Irrigation Communities  are:

Valle-Inferior: http://valleinferior.es/

Genil-Cabra:http://www.crgenilcabra.es/ Digital technologies.

Sectors
Agriculture, forestry and fishing - Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities - Silviculture and other forestry activities - Fishing and aquaculture
Technology
Internet of things - Big data, data analytics, data handling