IMRS

IMRS is a project, part of the Strategic Program for Railways research, carried out in collaboration with Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI).

Server for Remote Mobile Interface (IMRS) is part of a larger project to develop an innovative system to support safe operations for maintenance on railway track lines and stations. With the use of IMR (Remote Mobile Interface) maintenance agents (AM) can safely request and get acknowledgement through the use of an application that can run on rugged tablets to be used on the field, still in accordance with all the rules and national dispositions that regulate the intervention on railway structures and facilities. Objective of IMR is to improve the safety of operations for trains, devices and personnel operating in maintenance worksites, and to improve the general efficiency of the operations through the use of technology to largely reduce traffic and operative downtime. In this setting, AM sends requests and receives confirmations on their mobile devices before entering the safety zone. When the operation terminates they release the locked area to allow for the resumption of the train traffic. All the information passes through redundant channels through a software Server (IMRS) which is responsible for locking areas, communicating to the interlocking systems to safely disable the use of the interested tracks, communicating with the central traffic control systems, etc.

The IMRS projects required FBK to design and implement the Server component as a SIL4 EN50128 compliant software starting from requirements specifications made by RFI. Following the validation phase, an installation of IMRS has been successfully completed in 2024 and the system is today operative as a prototype for the evaluation of future adoption at national level.

General Info

Start Date: Sep 2021
End Date: Oct 2022
Budget: 108 k€