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	Customer Success Story: Rome Metro S.p.A. ICONICS

Customer Success Story: Rome Metro S.p.A.

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Middleware, SDKs & Libraries
Applicable Industries	Transportation
Applicable Functions	Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases	Public Transportation Management
Services	System Integration
Challenge	Rome Metro S.p.A. (Met.Ro.) operates the Metropolitan Rome rail and surface bus lines within the city of Rome, Italy. They also manage some regional bus lines. The organization oversees two main metro rail lines with a total of 53 stations and is currently constructing a third line with 34 additional stations. Each line is approximately 22 km in length. The challenge was to monitor and control the metro line from a centralized location and provide alarm notification for the coordination of emergency actions. The system needed to centralize security monitoring and provide the status of auxiliary equipment at each of the remote stations on the rail line. The auxiliary equipment being monitored included ventilation systems, fire systems, moving stairs, elevators, normal and emergency lighting systems, uninterrupted power supplies, inverters, etc. Read More
About Customer	Rome Metro S.p.A. (Met.Ro.) is a local government organization that operates the Metropolitan Rome rail and surface bus lines within the city of Rome, Italy. They also manage some regional bus lines. The organization oversees two main metro rail lines with a total of 53 stations and is currently constructing a third line with 34 additional stations. Each line is approximately 22 km in length. The organization is responsible for the smooth operation of the metro and bus lines, ensuring that the citizens of Rome have reliable and efficient public transportation. The organization is also responsible for the maintenance and safety of the metro and bus lines, ensuring that all equipment and facilities are in good working order and meet safety standards. Read More
Solution	Met.Ro. selected ICONICS GENESIS32™ to implement on their first of three rail lines. The software system was designed and installed by Automation Services S.r.L., a systems integrator, and was implemented over a two-year period. The ICONICS GENESIS32™ software suite incorporates smart symbols that were used by Metro Rome to automatically create large portions of their graphic screens. The import / export tools in the software suite allowed Metro Rome to create configuration databases using Microsoft Excel™ and other text processors. The Metro Rome control system is based upon 70 ABB PLCs in a distributed architecture with interlocking logic executed upon alarm notification. Locally, the subsystems are connected via Modbus RTU. The system has 8 GENESIS32 nodes, 7 alarm servers and 6 browser nodes. Over 7,000 digital and 500 analog tags are incorporated. The GENESIS32 system monitors 3,000 alarms that are both centralized and distributed across the station network for operator intervention. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Middleware, SDKs & Libraries

Applicable Industries

Transportation

Applicable Functions

Logistics & Transportation

Use Cases

Public Transportation Management

Services

System Integration

Challenge

Rome Metro S.p.A. (Met.Ro.) operates the Metropolitan Rome rail and surface bus lines within the city of Rome, Italy. They also manage some regional bus lines. The organization oversees two main metro rail lines with a total of 53 stations and is currently constructing a third line with 34 additional stations. Each line is approximately 22 km in length. The challenge was to monitor and control the metro line from a centralized location and provide alarm notification for the coordination of emergency actions. The system needed to centralize security monitoring and provide the status of auxiliary equipment at each of the remote stations on the rail line. The auxiliary equipment being monitored included ventilation systems, fire systems, moving stairs, elevators, normal and emergency lighting systems, uninterrupted power supplies, inverters, etc.

About Customer

Rome Metro S.p.A. (Met.Ro.) is a local government organization that operates the Metropolitan Rome rail and surface bus lines within the city of Rome, Italy. They also manage some regional bus lines. The organization oversees two main metro rail lines with a total of 53 stations and is currently constructing a third line with 34 additional stations. Each line is approximately 22 km in length. The organization is responsible for the smooth operation of the metro and bus lines, ensuring that the citizens of Rome have reliable and efficient public transportation. The organization is also responsible for the maintenance and safety of the metro and bus lines, ensuring that all equipment and facilities are in good working order and meet safety standards.

Solution

Met.Ro. selected ICONICS GENESIS32™ to implement on their first of three rail lines. The software system was designed and installed by Automation Services S.r.L., a systems integrator, and was implemented over a two-year period. The ICONICS GENESIS32™ software suite incorporates smart symbols that were used by Metro Rome to automatically create large portions of their graphic screens. The import / export tools in the software suite allowed Metro Rome to create configuration databases using Microsoft Excel™ and other text processors. The Metro Rome control system is based upon 70 ABB PLCs in a distributed architecture with interlocking logic executed upon alarm notification. Locally, the subsystems are connected via Modbus RTU. The system has 8 GENESIS32 nodes, 7 alarm servers and 6 browser nodes. Over 7,000 digital and 500 analog tags are incorporated. The GENESIS32 system monitors 3,000 alarms that are both centralized and distributed across the station network for operator intervention.

Impact #1	The ICONICS GENESIS32 software system connects with a Metro Rome mainframe computer via a WAN which communicates data using OPC at 2 Mb/sec. Operational data is collected from the software system for evaluation, trending and analysis for the modification of the Metro Rome implementation of alarm notifications.
Impact #2	Plans for future expansion of the installed software system include the ability to perform diagnostic functions by operators of the subsystems at the individual stations upon alarm notification prior to elevating the emergency further, providing public information to their customers and connecting ticket counters and emergency phones.
Impact #3	Overall, Metro Rome has increased the rail system efficiency and operational uptime performance with the use of the ICONICS GENESIS32 software system with early notification of subsystem failures, which afforded timely resolution of any problems reported.

Impact #1

The ICONICS GENESIS32 software system connects with a Metro Rome mainframe computer via a WAN which communicates data using OPC at 2 Mb/sec. Operational data is collected from the software system for evaluation, trending and analysis for the modification of the Metro Rome implementation of alarm notifications.

Impact #2

Plans for future expansion of the installed software system include the ability to perform diagnostic functions by operators of the subsystems at the individual stations upon alarm notification prior to elevating the emergency further, providing public information to their customers and connecting ticket counters and emergency phones.

Impact #3

Overall, Metro Rome has increased the rail system efficiency and operational uptime performance with the use of the ICONICS GENESIS32 software system with early notification of subsystem failures, which afforded timely resolution of any problems reported.

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Customer Success Story: Rome Metro S.p.A.

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