The project, after facing the problem and planning the solutions from the theoretical point of view, was aimed to convert this solution on behalf of sensor data fusion. More specifically the guidelines were related by combining the high-resolution Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) sensors with the Real-Time Kinematics (RTK) Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) relief technique. The integration of these two methods contribute to the strong improvement of the static measurement of the vertical component of the movement.
Furthermore, the project has provided some deliverables related to ITC integration between the GNSS custom receiver and the prototype sensor;
these work packages have included also the integration with open source software widely used by the GNSS scientific community and at the state-of-the-art like, among the others, the RTKLIB framework for the post-processing of GNSS data. The latter had been a mandatory task, to achieve the results required for the monitoring of any displacements at a resolution comparable with the other type of sensors involved. An important phase, moreover, has regarded the testing of the accuracy of GNSS mass market available, related to the integration hypothesis foreseen in the project solutions.
The development of a fully integrating GNSS data solution acquired by our prototype device is now in an advanced state of experimentation on the field. The stream of data acquisition, sanitizing, processing and storing, have required the analysis and the development of ITC custom solutions. The different developed routines were integrated with those of the software prototype solution to produce the best inputs to the network sensor model. The data streaming from sensors, in different configurations, has been analyzed and optimized to align the IT architecture to support solutions with storage flexibility and easily scalable (e.g. the cloud solutions).
The first exploitation results of our new monitoring platform consist on the precise determination of the vertical elevation (accuracy and precision of the altitude) of the Garigliano Power Station (Southern Italy) for ABB Spa Company.
The dissemination activities of AssAZAx preliminary results had been presented in the following major events and workshops:
- 63° Convegno Nazionale SIFET 20-22 June 2018 Gaeta – Italy;
- IX Borsa della Ricerca 28-30 May 2018 Fisciano – Italy;
- Notte dei Ricercatori University of Calabria 28 September 2018 Rende – Italy;
