the port of Livorno accommodates the event Plugtests anniversary of the ETSI



The Harbour Authority of Livorno and the National Consortium Interuniversitario of Telecommunications (CNIT), with the support of the Tuscany Region and the coordination of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), has started an initiative that has the scope to on board experience technological devices installed of vehicles and places on board road in a position to putting in net every type of automobile and heavy means connecting it to harbour and road infrastructures of the Tuscany.

This initiative of wide scale, christened with the name of ETSI ITS Plugtests™, has carried from monday to Livorno, near the Station Cruises, about one hundred coming engineers from some of the hi-tech enterprises leader: from the Siemens to the NEC, Cohda Wireless to NXP Philips, until Renesas and Kapsch (with the partnership Italian of TIM, Freeways for Italy, AVR, Leghorn Group, DataCH, DBA Lab). The encounter has the objective to allow with the companies to agree standards common in order to make to from each other converse devices as edge computer, to install on car and truck, and edge unit road, to install is in the nevralgiche areas of the Leighorn harbour port of call that in more points of the Fi-Devout-Them superhighway and the highway node of Florence. Draft of a Network that once set up will afford to the livornese harbour port of call and the road system of reference to receive and to send useful information for efficientare all the processes legacies to the transport of goods and people or in order to resolve safety problems.

"Livorno - it has emphasized the leader Development and Innovation of the Harbour Authority of Livorno, Antonella Querci - is already to the vanguard on the front of the technological innovation. That's why we have a lot worked in order to convince ETSI to carry out to Livorno its Plugtests, event anniversary financed from ETSI and the EU commission that up to now always has held in the Europe North. Today the port can count on a wide net wireless of last generation that already covers the entire marine station and on a "Virtual Private Network" that it connects the harbour port of call, the units of edge road and the control room of Fi-Devout-Them. Now the final passage is that to pull down any type of physical barrier, to make of Livorno a port free flow".

"Through partnership with the CNIT and the other university and agencies of search - it has added the extraordinary commissioner of the harbour agency, Giuliano Gallanti - we want to give I keep on the realization of our digital agenda on the standard solutions characterized to European level. We consider rewarding the fact to be selected from ETSI and the European Road Transport Telematics Implementation Co Organisation (ERTICO) for this campaign of experimentation on wide scale entirely financed from the EU commission. Now draft to proceed itself along this road. Livorno aimed to join to the strategy of innovation of the territory, persecuted from Tuscany Region: we want to realize an only logistic platform and of transport to offer to citizens and enterprises to European level and extra-European and this event demonstrates that we can make them it".