Luna Innovations Outfits Fiber on Smart Bridge in Italy
26 Agosto 2020 - 9:30AM
Business Wire
Paves the way for Advanced Monitoring System
and Digital Twin-Ready Capabilities
Luna Innovations Incorporated (NASDAQ: LUNA), a global leader in
advanced fiber optic-based technology, today announced that it has
partnered with CETENA and GHT Photonics to help design, build and
implement a full-scale, fiber-optic structural health monitoring
system for the recently re-opened Polcevera Viaduct bridge, which
is a critical traffic artery for the city of Genoa in northern
Italy.
The innovative bridge, which is over a kilometer long featuring
19 spans, is equipped with an advanced health monitoring system
based on a network of Luna’s HYPERION® measurement systems and
advanced fiber optic sensors installed by Luna’s integration
partner GHT photonics. The system will monitor the structural
response of the bridge, as well as conditions including the number
and weight of vehicles, water stagnation, weather and other
important variables helpful for bridge monitoring, control and
inspection. The sensors installed on the infrastructure will
capture the data necessary to create a digital twin of the bridge,
that reproduces all the viaduct’s physical characteristics, in real
time.
“The re-building of this bridge was a national priority for
Italy and stands as a symbol of progress for using our fiber in all
smart infrastructures. Luna is proud to partner with disruptors
like GHT Photonics and CETENA to work on this significant and
historic project,” said Scott Graeff, President and Chief Executive
Officer of Luna Innovations. “Our alliance has helped pave the way
for innovative growth in how we operate, inspect, monitor and
manage all infrastructure in the future.”
CETENA guided the development of groundbreaking software, Cymon,
that connects to the Luna fiber-optic sensing system for data
acquisition, analysis, and comparison with bridge design data and
storage. “The goal of the structural monitoring system is to ensure
that the condition of the bridge can be monitored closely,
consistently and continuously,” said Paolo Ceni, CEO of CETENA. “By
assessing in real-time the bridge conditions and correlating them
with load factors, any maintenance or operational needs will be
addressed swiftly so the working performance and safety of the
structure and passengers will be ensured. In the next stage,
acquired data will offer the possibility to construct a digital
twin of the bridge and to review structural loads and environmental
factors with augmented reality (AR) technology, in which CETENA has
acquired deep experience in the maritime and naval simulation
field.”
In order to meet the demanding requirements for micro seismic
monitoring and operational modal analysis (OMA), Luna provided
best-in-class fiber-optic interrogators and instrumented the entire
bridge with an extensive network of fiber-optic accelerometers, the
only optical solution available on the market that fit the
project’s OMA requirements. Combined with Luna’s HYPERION®
instrument platform, the os7500 family of accelerometers can be
easily distributed and synchronized with other sensors. The fully
fiber-optic solution, which forms the basis of an internal “nerve”
network for the structure, was easily deployed across the large
structure and is now ready to be centrally operated, producing data
critical to the health and maintenance of the structure for decades
to come.
About Luna
Luna Innovations Incorporated (www.lunainc.com) is a leader in
optical technology, providing unique capabilities in
high-performance, fiber optic-based, test products for the
telecommunications industry and distributed fiber optic-based
sensing for the aerospace and automotive industries. Luna is
organized into two business segments, which work closely together
to turn ideas into products: a Lightwave segment and a Luna Labs
segment. Luna’s business model is designed to accelerate the
process of bringing new and innovative technologies to market.
About CETENA
CETENA SpA (www.cetena.it), is the engineering and technical
consultancy and R&D center of Fincantieri Group, operating both
in the traditional fields of maritime and naval engineering
(structures, hydrodynamics, safety, sea trials, ship performances,
…) and in transversal ones (monitoring systems, simulation and
augmented reality environments, green energy technologies, air and
underwater noise emission reduction).CETENA is organized into
several Business Units working together to develop advanced
consultancy services and products, based on knowledge, applied
R&D, experimental laboratories and on-field experience.
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