Challenges

Canarias Geo Innovation Program 2030

Challenges

Smart beaches and water sports

Objetives:

  • A safe and smart tourist destination
  • Smart marine management
  • Beach safety

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Specific requirements:

  • Prevention and early detection of drownings
  • Geo-referencing for areas that are dangerous for swimming and risk maps
  • Electronic flags
  • Monitoring of currents, tides, big waves and winds
  • Solutions applied to nautical sport activities
  • Water monitoring and quality control (pathogens, microalgae, invasive species, red tides…)
  • Monitoring of spillage in bathing water
  • Monitoring of solar radiation to avoid the risks of dehydration and injury
  • Real-time tracking of objects in water
  • Creation of alerts and emergency coordination

Capacities:

  • Innovation centre
  • Training, oversight, and management centre
  • Production centre

A resilient Fuerteventura

Objectives:

  • Sustainable, resilient land
  • Smart management of water resources and nature
  • Enhanced resilience for Fuerteventura

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Specific requirements:

  • Monitoring and oversight of natural areas
  • Monitoring and detection of leaks in drinking water networks
  • Monitoring of the quality of water catchment
  • Detection of ravine spillage
  • Control of illegal fishing on the coast
  • Monitoring and smart management of environmental complexes
  • Monitoring and oversight of isolated heritage sites
  • Creation of risk maps
  • Creation of alerts for emergencies and activation of action protocol

Capacities:

  • Innovation centre
  • Training, oversight, and management centre
  • Production centre

Safe, clean, and resilient canary waters

Objectives:

  • Blue Economy
  • Smart tourist destination
  • Smart management and better management of Canary waters
  • Clean, safe, resilient and healthy Canary waters

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Specific requirements:

  • Monitoring and oversight of Canary Island inland and ocean waters
  • Monitoring and tracking of ocean stains and pollutants
  • Monitoring, detection, early warning and tracking of HAB episodes
  • Monitoring and control of spillage on the coastline and inland waters
  • Evaluation and measurement of ecological risks in aquatic ecosystems
  • Control of illegal fishing

Capacities:

  • Innovation centre
  • Training, monitoring, and management centre
  • Production centre

Safe and smart mobility

Objectives:

  • Smart and safe tourist destination
  • Safe sport/leisure activities
  • Improvement in the emergency service response to people who get lost or injured in isolated areas

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Specific requirements:

  • Communication and location of people who are lost, injured and/or isolated
  • Hyperlocal, early system for predicting the weather
  • System for managing disasters and/or emergency situations
  • Creation of risk maps

Capacities:

  • Innovation centre and laboratory displaying technologies and solutions
  • Management and oversight centre (HUB)