OMICRON

The objective of OMICRON is to develop an Intelligent Asset Management Platform with a broad portfolio of area-specific innovative technologies to enhance the construction, maintenance, renewal and upgrade of the European road network. This project will improve the whole asset management pipeline focusing on four pillars:

• The implementation digital inspection technologies, including UAVs, terrestrial vehicles and the connection to C-ITS systems.
• The development of a road Digital Twin.
• The constitution of a Decision Support Tool for road infrastructures.
• The development of smart construction and intervention solutions for road infrastructures, making use of modular construction, robotics, VR or AR technologies.

OMICRON’s Intelligent Platform will be interconnected by a BIM-oriented Digital Twin linked to the Decision Support Tool, which will enable the industrialisation and automation of a number of road management tasks which currently still have a high labour component. OMICRON’s developments will address the entire road network system including pavement, bridges, tunnels, lighting or signalling systems.

These improvements will result in the following impact:

• An increase of the safety levels in road intervention actions, affecting both road users and personnel.
• An increase in the capacity of the road network.
• An overall improvement of the efficiency of road intervention processes.
• A subsequent reduction of maintenance costs.

The group of technologies developed in the project will be implemented in a virtual demo and four real demonstrators that belong to CEF corridors from two European countries: Spain and Italy. The technologies developed in OMICRON will achieve a TRL 7 after the demonstration phase.

The consortium is formed by 16 partners from 7 EU countries, including road managers and associations; emergency, routine and extraordinary maintenance contractors; civil engineering companies; smart solution developers; drones and robotics experts; research centres; universities; ICT developers and integrators; communication and dissemination managers; business model managers and innovation and project managers.

CEMOSA’s contributions to the project focus on the following activities, among others:

Gestión del proyecto, incluyendo la gestión de la innovación y la interacción con las partes interesadas.

• Project management, including innovation management and interaction with stakeholders.
• Market analysis for OMICRON’s developments.
• Development of the road Digital Twin.
• Development of the road Decision Support System.
• Leader of the monitoring, demonstration and evaluation of OMICRON’s intelligent platform.
• Demonstrator characterisation and evaluation methodology.