Breakthrough in Emilia-Romagna: the regional monitoring network is now faster

As part of the project that led to the reduction of the cycle times of the hydrometeorological network of the Emilia-Romagna Region and to the technological updating of the Romagna network, the last phase of testing and verification of compliance for services and supplies was completed. These procedures allow to certify that the object of the contract in terms of performance, objectives and technical, economic and qualitative characteristics has been fulfilled and carried out in compliance with the provisions and contractual agreements. CAE Magazine had already presented the project when it was awarded; to learn more about it click here. 

Among other things, the following items have been verified:

- compliance of the supplies at the Bologna and Parma stations and of the field installed components, such as dataloggers, repeating stations, radio and radio panels;

- radio communication protocols;

- proper functioning of the network, polled entirely from the control centre in Bologna;

- cycle times: in particular, it was established that the network, composed of over 250 stations, takes a maximum of 15 minutes to perform the data acquisition cycle and the distribution of the same at the secondary stations.

This adjustment and speeding up operation proves to be an investment of great importance, as it is useful to guarantee a more effective and timely control by ARPAE, in order to be able to cope with the increase in intense and sudden hydrometeorological events that are more and more affecting the territory.


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