Attiki Odos SA, Greece - Enhanced Customer Service

Attiki Odos SA, Greece - Enhanced Customer Service
Shipment errors eliminated, costs down and asset utilization significantly better

Customer Innovation Road Show 2006 - Microsoft Peak Performance in Manufacturing - March 2006

Introduction
Greek motorway operator Attiki Odos needed a way to monitor and control electro-mechanical equipment throughout the length of its 60km highway, both to ensure that emergency equipment remained operational, and to control safety in real time, for example by preventing levels of dangerous gases building up in tunnels.

The company chose the Microsoft-based ICONICS GENESIS32 HMI/SCADA suite, which now runs on severs providing for real-time control and monitoring of over 25,000 points along the motorway.

Now, safety and technical personnel are alerted by alarms that can respond within two seconds to events and issues, and have been able to improve their response time to safety issues by 25%, helping to ensure a safer motorway.

Challenge
Attiki Odos Motorway is a high speed toll motorway that consists of two main highways: the Elefsina Stavros Spata A/P motorway (52.4km) and the Imittos Western Peripheral motorway (12.9km). It offers three traffic lanes in both directions, one emergency lane, 32 multi-level interchanges and literally hundreds of overpasses and underpasses.

It is staffed with specially trained emergency units, including Intervention and Maintenance Patrol Units, which patrol the motorway with modern vehicles around the clock - with the aim of providing users of the motorway with high quality service.

However, motorway operator Attiki Odos SA needed a way to monitor and control a vast range of safety and emergency equipment along the entire length of the motorway, both to be alerted of any malfunction in safety equipment, and to ensure effective operation of safety systems, such as ventilation equipment that maintains air quality in tunnels.

Solutions
Attiki Odos chose the GENESIS32 HMI/SCADA suite running under the Microsoft Windows operating system, along with the Microsoft SQL Server database application, and Microsoft Windows 2000.

The ICONICS AlarmWorX32 application was chosen to provide real-time notification of issues arising on the motorway that require attention. Using ICONICS ToolWorX32, partner Algosystems developed the application to interface to the controllers. In total, the servers running the ICONICS solution interface with over 25,000 monitoring and control points.

Systems running the GENESIS32 solution are now responsible for monitoring and control of all electromechanical systems on the highway and in the tunnels - including fire hose panels, irrigation pumps, power distribution equipment, uninterruptible power supplies and diesel generators - from a central location.

Benefits
With a response time of under two seconds, the real-time monitoring systems allow personnel to respond quickly to safety issues on the motorway. Response time by safety and technical personnel has been reduced by 25%, leading to higher safety standards for users of the motorway.

“The SCADA graphics are very impressive and the system allows our operators a complete picture anywhere on the highway,” says Serafim Tsavdaras, Project Manager with Aktor SA, part of the Attiki Odos construction team. “The system provides a fast and reliable centralised tool for our emergency personnel and support team. The ICONICS software helps make Attiki Odos a world-class motorway.”

Furthermore, control systems monitor tunnel ventilation, and automatically provide additional exterior airflow as necessary, to keep the tunnels clear of carbon dioxide, smoke and nitrogen oxide. They also control tunnel lighting, helping to ensure safety by providing lighting levels that are appropriate to the amount of external daylight.

Overview
Greek motorway operator Attiki Odos needed to ensure safety by monitoring and controlling all its electro-mechanical systems - such as fire hose panels, irrigation pumps, power distribution equipment, uninterruptible power supplies and diesel generators - from a central location.

Benefits
• Improved response time to issues by 25%
• Higher standard of overall safety for users
• Tunnel lighting and ventilation systems are monitored, and tunnel air quality is controlled

Software & Services
ICONICS HMI/SCADA software suite GENESIS32 , running on Microsoft Windows, with AlarmWorX32. Microsoft Windows 2000 and Microsoft SQL Server database.

ICONICS Background Information

Founded in 1986, ICONICS is a leader in the development of Web-enabled industrial automation and manufacturing intelligence software for Microsoft® Windows® operating systems. Offering the industry's only suite of fully-integrated OPC-based components and products, GENESIS32™ Enterprise Edition is available for Windows XP, XP Professional x64, Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 x64. Pocket GENESIS™ for Windows CE and Pocket PC was built from the ground up based on ICONICS' OPC-To-The-Core™ framework. BizViz™ is a suite of manufacturing and business intelligence products, which bridge the gap between manufacturing and corporate business information systems. BizViz is designed around Microsoft .NET technology and Microsoft SharePoint Services. ICONICS also offers a complete set of Plug and Play automation components, including best-in-class OPC ActiveX® Controls, OPC Toolkit, Human Machine Interface (HMI), Microsoft SQL Server®-based data logging, Multimedia Alarming, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) products. ICONICS is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner represented in over 60 countries, and has more than 225,000 product installations worldwide.

© 2009 ICONICS, Inc. All rights reserved. Specifications are subject to change without notice. GENESIS64, GENESIS32, Pocket GENESIS, BizViz and their respective modules, OPC-To-The-Core, and Visualize Your Enterprise are trademarks of ICONICS Inc. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Attiki Odos SA, Greece - Enhanced Customer Service Shipment errors eliminated, costs down and asset utilization significantly better

ICONICS Background Information

Attiki Odos SA, Greece - Enhanced Customer Service
Shipment errors eliminated, costs down and asset utilization significantly better