For the first time, ARGO, the new digital infrastructure monitoring and management system goes beyond the boundaries of the motorway to a provincial road.
Today, at the Ponte Buriano on Provincial Road 1, the President of the Province of Arezzo Silvia Chiassai Martini and the Chief Executive Officer of MOVYON Lorenzo Rossi presented the agreement signed between the Province of Arezzo and the Autostrade per l’Italia Group company to test the digital platform on this asset.
According to this pilot project, this innovative system developed by MOVYON together with IBM and Fincantieri NextTech and now used on the approximately 4,000 bridges, viaducts and overpasses of the Autostrade per l’Italia network, will be tested on a Provincial infrastructure.
An ancient bridge – with historical documents dating its construction back to 1277, also famous for being depicted in the background of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa‘ – Ponte Buriano will be equipped with sensors enabling its constant monitoring. In addition, all data relating to the infrastructure, including inspections, will be entered into a database that will contain the history of the asset; this information will be accessible at any time thanks to shared interfaces that will allow the management and exchange of data relating to the monitoring of the infrastructure.
The strength of the ARGO platform lies in the comprehensive and innovative approach to inspection and maintenance processes, which are also carried out through the use of drones and artificial intelligence algorithms, capable of anticipating any degradation of the infrastructure.
As part of Autostrade per l’Italia Group’s transformation plan, MOVYON’s strategy is to bring technological solutions in infrastructure safety and sustainable mobility off the motorway.
According to Silvia Chiassai Martini, President of the Province of Arezzo, “Ponte Buriano will be the pilot project of Italian Provinces, as it will be used to test the innovative monitoring system. Movyon will provide the ARGO solution to enable the monitoring of the state of the infrastructure, creating a new chapter for the history of Ponte Buriano, which is not only artistic, but also technologically innovative. The agreement between the Province of Arezzo and Movyon, focused on the strategic technological innovation, represents the collaboration between the most important Italian group operating in road infrastructures and the system of Italian Provinces and their related ‘in house’ companies. A cutting-edge and responsible choice to effectively monitor the state of the bridges in our province and its municipalities”.
According to Lorenzo Rossi, Chief Executive Officer of MOVYON, “Today the technology of the world’s first platform managing infrastructure inspection and surveillance in an integrated manner is being applied to an asset that is almost 1,000 years old. Our collaboration with the province of Arezzo begins today: our solutions, designed on Europe’s widest open-air laboratory, namely the Autostrade per l’Italia’s network, are applied to the provincial infrastructure”