Supervision for the management and regulation of canals and rivers

Abstract

In order to improve management efficiency and the flexibility left to the users, more and more use is being made of automatic control of canals and rivers. To manage this type of complex process, the industry has been using supervision systems since the 1960s. The purpose of supervision is to acquire data to manage an industrial process manually or automatically. Software and hardware evolutions and the reduction of costs mean that their use is no longer reserved for large systems. This note presents the main concepts related to supervision systems.