Organization
The project is articulated in nine workpackages (WPs):
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WP1, Open Infrastructure: Its goal is to provide the base tunnel infrastructure,
particularly for what concerns the Cadine tunnel, which at the beginning of the project is
provided without any equipment installed. The tunnel infrastructure is defined by appropriate
regulations, based on parameters such as length of the tunnel and traffic load. However, the
infrastructure developed in WP1 will provide the appropriate "hooks" to encompass the needs of the
research prototypes developed by the other WPs.
Partners involved: Heidi, Siemens (leader), UNITN.
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WP2, Offline Laboratory: Its goal is design, equip, and manage the laboratories associated with
the TRITon project. The labs will contain standard office spaces along with an experimental area where
scaled-down prototypes will be tested before deployment in the tunnels. Also, the lab will be
interconnected with the tunnels, therefore enabling remote acquisition of live experimental data.
Partners involved: Create-Net (leader), Heidi, FBK-IRST, Siemens, UNITN.
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WP3, Platform: The main goal of this WP is to define the reference hw/sw architecture for the
whole project, where standard products and research outcomes are harmonized in a single platform,
reusable in other sites.
Partners involved: Create-Net, Heidi, FBK-IRST, Siemens (leader), UNITN.
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WP4, Adaptive Lighting: The goal of this WP is to design, develop, test, and deploy in the
test sites a system for adaptive lighting. The system will rely on wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for
gathering data about the internal and external lighting level, and dim or brighten the tunnel lights
accordingly. The WSN will be integrated with mainstream tunnel equipment to meet the required safety and
performance levels. The research activities of the WP will focus primarily on the software and routing
layers, as well as on the customization of WSN nodes to improve power consumption, sensing accuracy, and
communication reliability.
Partners involved: Create-Net, Heidi, FBK-IRST, Siemens, UNITN (leader).
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WP5, Road Safety through Automatic Videosurveillance: The WP will develop an advanced, state-of-the-art
videosurveillance system, aimed at enhancing the safety of the tunnel environment. This will automatically identify
situations of potential danger (e.g., vehicles with anomalous behavior), therefore supporting and simplifying the
decisions of human operators. Moreover, the system will also rely and integrate with the WSN infrastructure already
deployed by WP4.
Partners involved: Create-Net, Heidi, FBK-IRST, Siemens, UNITN (leader).
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WP6, Adaptive Control of Ventilation and Pollution: This WP will develop a third innovation solution,
focusing on ventilation. The goal is both to improve energy consumption, as ventilation is one of the biggest
energy drains, and improve safety by controlling the levels of pollutants. The solution, once again, will build
upon the infrastructure and results already developed by WP4 and WP5. Differently from these WPs, however, the
expected outcomes of WP6 will be lab studies and prototypes demonstrating the potential of the innovative solution,
without deployment in the test sites.
Partners involved: Create-Net, Heidi, FBK-IRST (leader), Siemens, UNITN.
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WP7, Future Solutions: This workpackage will consider more advanced solutions beyond the state-of-the-art,
for which, in contrast with WP4, WP5, and WP6, an immediate, integrated solution cannot be foreseen.
Partners involved: Create-Net, Heidi, FBK-IRST, Siemens, UNITN (leader).
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WP8, Management: Control Center, Maintenance, Installation: This WP is responsible, throughout the
entire project, for management and maintenance of all the systems deployed in the test sites, as well as of a
periodic collection of data about their operation.
Partners involved: Heidi (leader), Siemens.
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WP9, Training: The goal of this WP is twofold. Initially, the main emphasis is on providing researchers
with the necessary background about the application domain and, at the same time, exposing the industrial partners to
the state-of-the-art research results employed in the project. As project results are developed, however, training
becomes more geared towards transferring the necessary knowledge about deployment and operational procedures to the
personnel in charge of running and managing the actual tunnels.
Partners involved: Create-Net, Heidi, FBK-IRST, Siemens, UNITN (leader).
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