Customer Success Story: Rome Metro S.p.A.
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- Europe
Country
- Italy
Product
- ICONICS GENESIS32
Tech Stack
- Microsoft Excel
- ABB PLCs
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Productivity Improvements
- Customer Satisfaction
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Middleware, SDKs & Libraries
Applicable Industries
- Transportation
Applicable Functions
- Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases
- Public Transportation Management
Services
- System Integration
About The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
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