Pitigliano as a real "open-air laboratory". It is the project that Enea and Open Fiber in collaboration with the Municipality of Pitigliano - a small and delightful village perched on a tuff spur in the heart of Maremma - want to carry on with the aim of promoting innovation in urban management models with particular reference to small municipalities. It was presented on site and revolves around the FTTH (Fiber To The Home) fiber optic infrastructure, built by Open Fiber as Infratel Italia concessionaire, which will allow the development of digital services and technologies that can then be replicated in other municipalities Italians with similar characteristics.
Pitigliano digital laboratory: augmented reality, lighting, hospitals, schools
They range from the experimentation of augmented reality to enhance the cultural heritage up to the application of the PELL (Public Energy Living Lab) project by Enea to schools, hospitals and plantslighting public, passing through edge computing and it'senergy efficiency. Of particular importance, given the tuff peculiarity of the land, will be the monitoring of the territory by the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, which involves the use of the optical fiber laid by Open Fiber as a distributed sensor to collect information through precision instruments used by ENEA.
The day also saw the speeches of some companies involved in the project including Eagleprojects, University of Insubria, Smarter Interdepartmental Research Center, City Green Light, Nextworks, MAC, Nemea Sistemi, Sidora, Rebernig Supervisioni/Trailslight, Enjob / Kerberos, Ressolar/Atlas/Ceress.
“Thanks to Enea and Open Fiber – comments the Mayor of Pitigliano Giovanni Gentili – for this important development opportunity. With this project, Pitigliano is transformed into an experimental laboratory of innovative digital services that can also become a model for other villages".
“What we are inaugurating today in Pigliano, together with the other partners, is a model of innovation standards that we aim to replicate on a large scale in other Italian municipalities with similar characteristics. A model thanks to which small companies will be able to make the best decisions in areas such as territorial control, tourism or energy efficiency based on the collection and analysis of data in real time", he comments Stefano Mazzitelli, Open Fiber Business Market Director.
"Enea has been promoting the innovation of management models in urban and territorial contexts for years thanks to the possibility of managing large quantities of data and new digital solutions for increasingly effective and efficient services", he declares Nicoletta Gozo of ENEA's Smart Energy Division.
"We will integrate fiber sensing into the systems already in use, i.e. we will use the fiber optic network as a sensor distributed throughout the territory, useful both for monitoring earthquakes and landslides", concluded Andre Herrero, Coordinator of the INGV Seismic Hazard Center (INGV-CPS).
