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Description
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The MONICA project aims to effectively contribute to the prevention and management of environmental hazards, particularly the marine and coastal ones, through the creation of an
innovative monitoring system. This system will be based on a communication infrastructure in optical fiber cables, installed at the sea floor bottom and able to create a network through several, existing and innovative, sensors. The marine monitoring system will be linked to the existing on-land monitoring systems and to a Monitoring Centre. Its scope is observe the natural hazards, such as earthquakes, eruptions, landslides, tsunamis, marine biological parameters and pollution, and anthropogenic hazards.
Within the project, several activities will be devoted to the development of highly innovative fiber optic and guidance wave sensors able to control the marine-coastal phenomena that are not observable by using the existing commercial technologies.
These new technologies will be tested in the north-western part of the Gulf of Naples, an ideal area due the volcanic, seismic, tsunami and landslide risks, as well as anthropogenic risk, such as pollution and maritime traffic.
The expected products at the end of the MONICA Project, include:
- New sensors, networks of sensors and measuring devices, and command and control systems based on optoelectronic and waveguide technologies, to detect physical and chemical parameters useful for widespread and permanent, terrestrial and marine monitoring;
- Models of data interpretation and algorithms prediction implemented at the National Center able to provide information on the risk in real time and at a geographical scale, with regard to marine and coastal environmental hazards (tsunamis, landslides, earthquakes, volcanoes, pollution)
Within 1-2 years after completion of the project, it is expected a fully industrialization of above products, with significant perspective of integration into the European and national market of monitoring systems.
In the medium term (3-5 years), subsequent developments of the market and the cost reducing can provide the entire Italian territory of systems and sensors for continuous and widespread monitoring, interconnected by fiber optic networks or wireless, to finally achieve a real national system of prevention and emergency management. This fact, appropriately supported in the industrial and institutional sectors, is also an important potential market for Broadband telecommunications systems, which might lead, in the long term, effective benefit to the competitiveness of Italian companies on the market Europe and beyond.
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Distribution
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Advancement of distribution in %
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Total amount distributed
4,664,199.11 euro
NOP R&C distributed amount
4,254,589.81 euro
PAC distributed amount
0.00 euro
Amount distributed with other funds
409,609.30 euro
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