The Messapi project concerns the study and development of an innovative, automated system for the environmental monitoring of industrial sites using ground-based mobile robots and aerial drones.
These drones, equipped with sensors and appropriate environmental monitoring devices, will monitor a pilot industrial plant to detect any hazardous or toxic substances dispersed in the air.

In particular, the project will take place at the IPLOM S.p.A. oil refinery in Busalla, and will involve the installation of a self-driving ground vehicle equipped with instrumentation to map and analyze gaseous components in ambient air. This robot will be able to integrate with the network of fixed-position sensors and environmental monitoring systems installed at the plant. Alongside the ground robot, a self-driving flying drone will also act, possibly transportable by the ground vehicle and in contact with the central control station, able to acquire data from appropriate sensors and asset aerial photogrammetry.

Data will be processed with computer vision techniques and integrated with numerical dispersion modelling and artificial intelligence to create a smart support system for the detection of any anomalies.

Our role: PM_TEN will be responsible for the elaboration of the dispersion and ground fallout model of the monitored pollutants and the integration with the collected data (stationary sensors and drones).