The monitoring of the coverage of the Vicenza Fair is unique in various aspects and the solution adopted has been studied and designed for this specific case, starting from the company’s know-how.

Given the extraordinary dimensions of the roofing and the structure of the same, the need of the client was to install an effective monitoring system, making an efficient economic investment, optimizing the number of sensors and the positioning of the reading points.

The idea that industrial buildings can reach large dimensions has led us to try to optimize costs, increasing the elements less impacting. The solution we worked on was basically to evolve the standard sensors from the ability to manage two reading points, up to four.

In this way, the number of sensors - technologically more complex and expensive elements - has been reduced in favor of increasing the reading points, consisting of electrodes and wiring.

From the analysis of the technical drawings, it was decided to ideally divide the roof into two equal pitches with an area of 5760 square meters (144 x 40 meters).

Each pitch has been equipped with a MyCPU100 control unit that collects data from the 63 MySenseBus sensors located in that portion of cover.

In total, there are 126 sensors, which monitor the state of the cover through 492 probes, of which 366 reading points for humidity and 126 for temperature. The count shows that not all sensors have been activated the 4 available humidity probes.

About 9000 m of cable were needed for the wiring of the plant, of which about 6000 were needed to connect the 126 sensors to the power supplies and another 3000 meters of signal cable between data and control unit.