iMERMAID is an EU-funded projectd, targeted to develop, deploy and demonstrate advanced, innovative and reproducible solutions to prevent, monitor, and remedy toxic and persistent chemical pollution in the Mediterranean Sea basin.

Our role: In the context of iMERMAID, SoftWater developed iWIRE, a web-based platform designed to collect, harmonise, and visualise environmental and water quality data, providing a unified entry point to explore site-specific characteristics, monitoring data, climate conditions, and the performance of remediation activities.

iWIRE addresses key challenges related to reproducibility, interoperability, and usability in geoscientific platforms. The system is built on a fully open-source technology stack and follows a modular design, allowing individual components to be updated, extended, or reused across different projects and environmental contexts.

The platform supports interoperability by integrating heterogeneous datasets from laboratory analyses, in situ sensors, climate services, satellite-derived datasets, and regulatory sources. Data ingestion is enabled through a wide range of input formats, from simple text files to standardised data structures and API-based connections. This approach enables seamless data exchange between tools and facilitates cross-disciplinary analyses spanning hydrology, environmental monitoring, and water treatment processes.

iWIRE has been tested across five Mediterranean pilot areas, providing concrete case studies that demonstrate its operational use in real-world environmental monitoring and remediation assessment. These examples highligh how research software can effectively bridge scientific analysis and decision-making in applied geoscience contexts.