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Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi" - DEI

Seminar: Railway Signalling Systems in the Information Age

The seminar will be given by Dr. Diego Marino, Engineering Director, Bomardier Transportation, as part of the course "Industrial Trends in Electronics M."

  • Date: 29 March 2019

  • Event location: Room 5.4, School of Engineering, viale Risorgimento 2, Bologna

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About the speaker

Diego Marino was born in Naples in 1968. He graduated in Electronic Engineering at Università degli Studi di Bologna in 1992. He has 25 years of experience in Railway Signaling Systems in the areas of Electronics Product Development, System Engineering, Product Management and Test and Commissioning for Railway, Metro and Tramway projects. He worked for Sasib Railway and Alstom Transport and is currently leading the Italian engineering team for the Rail Control Solutions division of Bombardier Transportation. Since 1997 he is an IEEE member, affiliated with Computer Society, and Vehicular Technology and Communication Society.

 

Abstract

Railway signaling systems will be introduced starting from their basic functional, safety and availability requirements. Their recent evolution towards electronics systems will then be presented along with the challenges presented by the fast evolving technology scenario encompassing IoT, Big Data, LTE comms and Cybersecurity.