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SmaRIERS (Smart Railway Infrastructures: Efficiency, Reliability and Safety) is a technology transfer project financed by the Tuscany Region. The project partners include ECM s.p.a. (Progress Rail of the multinational Caterpillar Inc. group), a Pistoia-based company and leader in the railway sector that develops solutions and technologies for the safety and control of railway infrastructure, and the Formal Methods and Tools (FMT) and Software Engineering and Dependable Computing (SEDC) research labs of ISTI-CNR. The project is conducted in strong collaboration with the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Pisa.

A railway infrastructure is a highly complex system that includes several interconnected and co-operating devices, components, and subsystems. In SmaRIERS, we focus on the study of Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS). UPS is a modular system that ensures the uninterruptible power supply of signalling systems. The main components of such signalling systems are control logic devices and so-called “yard devices” installed along the railway infrastructure (switches, train detection elements, light signals, etc.) that perform the signalling tasks; vital elements for the safety of people and property that therefore require an uninterruptible power supply. The project idea is to equip the UPS with a “SMART” diagnostic system capable of becoming proactive, i.e., capable of preventing critical situations or future problems, so as to allow the operator to plan appropriate actions in advance, through the analysis of plant diagnostic data. SmaRIERS also includes studies of measurements related to system availability by means of stochastic modelling, as a support to the design of innovative station power systems.

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Published on  June 9th, 2022 using GetSimple Content Management System