Italferr performs works monitoring together with ANSFISA, RFI and Consorzio Fabre

On Friday, March 21, Italferr, through its the TID Spoke and Project Control Department, carried out an important technical inspection alongside ANSFISA (Italian Agency for Safety of Railways and Road and Highway Infrastructure), the Manager of the Italian Railway Infrastructure RFI (Rete Ferroviaria Italiana) and the Consorzio Fabre consortium of the Borratino Viaduct, a railway structure that is part of the ‘DD.MA’ (Direttissima) Rome-Florence main line located near Incisa in Val d'Arno (Florence, Italy).

ANSFISA was represented by the engineere Mr. Luigi Tatarelli in charge of the Railway Operator Authorization and Operator Certification Office of the General Directorate for Railway Safety, RFI by the engineer Mr. Andrea Vecchi in charge of the Bridges and Structures division of the Technical Directorate (Infrastructure Standards) and Consorzio Fabre by a representative of the University of Pisa. Representing Italferr was the engineer Mr. Francesco Franzè, head of the Digital Rail Infrastructure Monitoring & Technical Advisory department, who together with his Team was able to illustrate in the field the peculiar characteristics of our instrumental monitoring system built on the viaduct using Smart technologies that have also had other applications in the road sector.

Italferr's concept regarding the instrumental monitoring of works represents a unique approach in the European and international panorama as it is performed with advanced digital methodologies. The integrated solution developed by the Company, featuring a marked digital connotation, consists of the field system for the acquisition (with innovative wireless sensors) and transmission of data (via LoRaWAN technology) that are collected in the platform and subsequently processed by a complex system of algorithms that return the recorded values of the control parameters that are compared with the threshold values at certain specific times. Interfacing with external tools and platforms (monitoring platform, ACDat data sharing environment) is done through the development of suitable Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), with which technical data created by different tools can be incorporated into a dynamic Digital Twin and aligned with real data, IoT (Internet of Things) data and other associated data by integrating in a single collector the information residing on different systems.

The event takes on strategic importance as it is set within the framework of the ANSFISA-RFI-Consortium Fabre Agreement regarding experimentation on the enacted "Guidelines for the census, classification and management of existing railway bridges" being drafted by the working group in which Italferr is also present with its Planning Department.