History

The original idea that carried to the realization of Centro ISIDE goes back to 1994, when Consorzio Velia and Consorzio Irriguo di Vallo - managing organizations of five dams on a small territory - having the necessity to respect the obligations of law in force in the field of dam managing - soon understood the difficulties to realize itself all control and monitoring operations previewed by the law and realized high costs to collect the data necessaries to guarantee the efficiency of the structures.


So Consorzio Velia, with the aim to build an automatic dam monitoring system, got in touch with ISMES S.p.A., one of Italian company most specialized in the field of dam control and monitoring and with high experience in monitoring technologies and instrumentations. From these contacts bore the possibility to create a data acquisition and processing center for the management of various dams in the Center - Southern of Italy, so as to reduce the costs of the service.


Consorzio Velia promoted the elaboration of a project for the realization of a center that began to operate with 18 dams located in the Center - Southern of Italy. The project, named CAM/7, was introduced to the Italian Ministry of Public Structures and was asked a financing on the funds of the Framework of Support 1994/1999 of European Community. The financing was granted in December, 29 of 1997 and then bore Centro ISIDE Consortium, with the participation of Consorzio Velia and others eleven managing organization of the 18 dams, with the role of actuator company.