📋 Tender Overview
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, lead company of the Infrastructure Hub of the FS Group, has awarded the tender for the construction through a Framework Agreement of an accelerometer network for the seismic monitoring of the infrastructure and on the high-speed lines of the Seismic Early Warning (EWS), a system capable of providing detailed real-time information on the maximum intensity of earthquakes recorded along the lines in order to reduce the risks deriving from seismic phenomena.
The tender, with a total value of over 32 million euros, is divided into three lots which were awarded respectively to Impresa Valtellina (North and South areas) and to the temporary grouping of companies formed by Industrial Engineering & Software, ETS and Tecno Engineering ( Central area).
The accelerometer network for seismic monitoring is based on 4G/5G technology which allows us to detect peak movements when an earthquake occurs and then process a series of data to more precisely circumscribe the lines where it will be necessary to slow down or suspend the railway traffic.
On high-speed lines, thanks to the presence of optical fiber it will be possible to create a Seismic Early Warning system capable of estimating the intensity of an earthquake in the very first seconds from the start of the event and providing a timely alert with immediate management of the signaling systems to brake trains.
The technology underlying the systems has already been tested along the 200 kilometers of the Rome-Naples high-speed line where there are 20 accelerometer stations. The aim is to install the technology on all 16,800 kilometers of line.
