One solution to manage floods, natural hazards, industrial sites and urban areas.
Many territories, municipalities and infrastructures don't face just one type of threat: they live with hydraulic, industrial, natural and urban risks at the same time. Managing each with separate systems creates operational silos, duplicated resources and inefficient response times. At Lafcarr we design multi-hazard warning systems that bring detection, management and warning for any threat into a single architecture, sharing communications, software and command post, with protocols adapted to each scenario.
A coastal municipality may simultaneously face tsunami risk, flooding from heavy rain and a SEVESO site on its industrial estate. A hydraulic infrastructure operator may manage dams, ponds and flood-prone stretches within the same catchment. A regional government may need to coordinate wildfire, landslide and seismic alerts from a single centre.
In all these cases, deploying separate systems —one per risk— not only multiplies deployment and maintenance costs but also creates serious operational inefficiencies: operators have to learn and use several interfaces, activation protocols are not unified and traceability is scattered. Lafcarr's multi-hazard solution solves this with a modular architecture that shares field infrastructure, communications and software while keeping each threat's specific protocols.
Technical diagram of the unified architecture: sensors and detection by type of risk, shared redundant communications, the COMSIR/iDam platform and coordinated activation of sirens and public alerts.
Lafcarr's multi-hazard system shares field infrastructure, communications and the management platform. Every module is part of the same ecosystem.
Modular architecture: every component is developed and integrated by Lafcarr, so the system can be extended to new risks without replacing existing infrastructure.
High power for urban, industrial and coastal environments. Pre-recorded voice or real-time speech synthesis.
Web SCADA platform: supervision, siren activation, risk-based scenarios and full traceability.
Real-time monitoring, automatic threshold alerts and technical infrastructure management.
Chemical sensors, thermal cameras, weather stations and structural monitoring equipment.
Over 20 years deploying warning systems in the most demanding environments in Spain, Portugal and Latin America. Our own hardware, our own software and communications designed to work where and when they are needed most.
Projects with a unified architecture deployed in territories, catchments and industrial areas facing more than one type of threat.
A coastal siren network integrated with the Seveso protocol of an adjacent port facility. A single control centre manages both risks with separate scenarios and shared traceability.
iDam platform and siren network to manage outflow risk downstream of the dam, floods in the lower catchment and industrial alerts on the final stretch of the river, from a single operations centre.
Warning system with COMSIR for municipal civil protection: flood protocol for valley bottoms, earthquake activation and industrial warning with independent scenarios and coordinated activation from the local CECOP.
We answer the questions most often raised by authorities, infrastructure operators and engineering firms when tackling a warning project with several types of threat.
Yes. The key is that each type of risk has its own set of sensors, thresholds and activation protocols configured independently within the COMSIR platform. The software identifies the activation scenario —flood, industrial leak, tsunami, fire— and runs the matching protocol: the voice message, the warning zone, the siren nodes involved and the authority notification profile. The risks coexist in the same system without interfering with each other.
Yes. COMSIR and iDam integrate with existing systems through standard industrial protocols: MODBUS, OPC-UA/DA, IEC-104, DNP3 and API/REST. This allows the multi-hazard system to connect with industrial SCADA, infrastructure monitoring systems, Civil Protection platforms (112, CECOP) or the client's own tools without replacing what is already installed.
The platform handles simultaneous activations with configurable priority and independent scenarios. Each risk protocol runs autonomously: a flood alert can be active while an industrial incident is being managed in the same control centre, without either interfering with the other. The operator sees the status of each risk on separate dashboards and can act on each independently or in coordination.
We design the architecture based on an analysis of every regulatory framework that applies to the environment: RD 264/2021 for dams, the Seveso III Directive and RD 840/2015 for industrial risk, nuclear emergency plan regulations and regional and municipal Civil Protection plans. Each system component is documented and validated according to the risk it serves, and the platform produces the activity and traceability records that the owner or authority can submit to the competent authority, without replacing the specific regulatory analysis for each project.
Yes, and that is one of the core advantages of the multi-hazard architecture. Because it is a modular system, new types of threat can be added —for example, a wildfire detection module for a system that already handles floods and industrial risk— without replacing communications, control centres or the base software. New modules are added through configuration and additional sensors, minimising the impact on existing operations.
We work with authorities, critical infrastructure operators and engineering firms to design warning architectures that respond to every risk in the area from a unified platform. We analyse your threat map, the applicable regulations and existing resources, and propose the most efficient technical solution for each case.