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.
Since December 15th, 2020, Lepida's certifications have reached the number of 5, thanks to the achievement of the international standard norm ISO 45001:2018 (dedicated to health and safety at the workplace), which together with the ISO 9001 (standard norm on the quality of the products and services provided), the ISO/IEC 27001 (standard norm for information security), the ISO/IEC 27017 (standard norm on security controls for cloud services) and the ISO/IEC 27018 (standard norm on the protection of personal data on public cloud systems), also all confirmed during the year, c
The works for the underwater crossing of the Candiano channel have been completed, within the project for the Utra Wideband (UWB) infrastructures at the Port of Ravenna and the surrounding areas, aimed at the almost total coverage of the area, in conjunction with the FTTH connection of all the Access Points operating sites (Colacem, Fabbrica Vecchia, Foca Monaca, Nodo Sapir, Piloti, Ponte Mobile, Torre Bunge, Torre IFA, Torre PIR, Via Squero).
