Genoa tragedy, black boxes in Piedmont to monitor bridges

Experimentation on the Turin-Caselle and Marchetti Viaduct.

With Internet of Things technology, tragedies like that of the Morandi viaduct in Genoa could be avoided. A future that is already present for the Turin-Caselle Stura bridge, where sensors from Sysdev have been installed by Anas. An innovative company that has launched a system, based on mini-seismographs connected to a wireless network and a cloud platform, that enables remote monitoring of infrastructure.

Turin-Caselle overpass under structural monitoring Sysdev sensors

Black boxes on bridges also serve to erase psychosis such as the one that stirred social media yesterday where a photo of a deteriorated pylon on the Turin-Savona highway went viral, and forced Autostrada dei Fiori, the concession company, to issue a note with the reassurance “There are no situations that could pose a danger to the safety of our customers.”