The realization of the new optical fibre infrastructure, along 19 kilometers of Emilia Romagna’s coastline, is now in progress.
This operation, possible thanks to regional fundings, aims at activating an Ultra Broadband WiFi service on the seafronts of the different seaside resorts, in order to grant this necessary service to these areas, which are characterized by an intense flow of tourism.
The activities concerning the agreement signed by Lepida and the Central and Northern Adriatic Sea Port Authority, in order to complete the Ultra Broadband network in Ravenna’s harbour, are now over, as foreseen by the Agenda Digitale national plan and the National Plan of Port Facilities and Logistics.
The year 2021 is facing considerable difficulties related to the IT devices (PC, Server, Storage, Networking) supply. The main cause is the worldwide scarcity of chips, which are necessary to the production of this sort of equipment.
This crisis is affecting different types of industries at the same time (for example, the automotive sector) and is due to several factors all, somehow, linked to the pandemic.
Building fully connected schools throughout the region is the vision of the SchoolNet project, which has been taking shape in Emilia-Romagna for 7 years. A vision that is enriched with an additional element. In the context of the neutrality that has characterized it from its origins, the protocol recently signed by Lepida with the Order of Engineers of Bologna opens the way to a new opportunity to increase the capabilities of users.
Since 2004, the Emilia-Romagna Region and its Regional Authorities (Municipalities, Provinces, Unions and also the Civil Protection Agency, ARSTPC) have unified the PMR (Professional Mobile Radio) communication system for emergency and safety with the ERretre TETRA digital network. The result has been a benefit in terms of operational and maintenance costs. The TETRA digital system has since replaced a costly and dishomogeneous aggregate of analog networks for the institutional system, which were inefficient and easily subject to interference and interception.
Starting from 2010 Lepida, together with the Region, has built agreements with TLC operators with various purposes. Among these is certainly to be mentioned the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Telecom Italia.
Lepida adds another fundamental piece, among the IXs with which it has made direct agreements, by entering the TOP-IX Consortium (Torino Piemonte Internet eXchange), an important strategic node for the exchange of Internet traffic in the Italian North-West.
The introduction of Blockchain technologies in the Italian legal system, through article 8ter of the legislative decree n.135/2018, has opened a phase of debate and comparison but also of experimentation and development of pilot projects. At all levels - international, European, national, territorial - several bodies - government institutions and their agencies, standardization bodies, private companies from different sectors - have deepened the analysis and knowledge of Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT).
On February 22nd the launch of the TRANSIT project was made official. Financed within the Erasmus+ program, TRANSIT is inspired in particular by the objective 13 of the Climate Action; the importance of the topic is also central in the Pact for Work and Climate that the Emilia-Romagna Region has recently signed with all the regional actors, in which, among the lines of action, is reiterated the desire to invest in a new sustainable mobility and to promote the use of bicycles and more eco-friendly vehicles.
The Home Care Residence "R. Rossi" in Novi (Modena) is managed by the Public Personal Service Agency (ASP) "Terre d'Argine" and houses 14 elderly residents, mostly women, in self-sufficient apartments. At the urging of the Union Terre d'Argine and the Municipality, Lepida has organized a test within the domain of Internet of Things (IoT), aimed at experimenting solutions that combine home care and safety for the frail.
