Milano Centrale train station

In train stations, it is vital that passengers and personnel be provided with the “exact time”. To immediately assess the waiting time, clocks must be integrated within the train arrival and departure information panels.

Even in waiting or service areas such as near the train tracks, waiting rooms, halls, ticket office, bars, etc., travelers must always have access to the current time.

Equally vital is the need for these displays to be perfectly legible even in the presence of difficult environmental conditions.

Thus the need for widespread presence of synchronized clocks arises. They must also be capable of self diagnosing and of notifying the time system handler of any malfunctions.

The Milano Centrale train station is the second-largest Italian train station in terms of size and traffic volume, as well as one of the most important train stations in Europe.

It welcomes about 600 trains a day, various underground lines, a bus and trolley car terminal, and it is used every day by thousands of people.

All that has been done in this case represents a significant example of the solutions that Solari di Udine is capable of designing and producing for the railway sector.

Specifically, the installation is made up of a complete public information system in which various clocks have been added to the information panels indicating arrival and departure times of trains. The clocks provided are both analog and digital, installed as independent clocks, placed along passageways or in waiting areas, as well as clocks integrated within the information panels.

All devices are synchronized by a Master Clock that guarantees the precision of the displayed information and avoids the need to intervene directly on the clocks that are located in the various areas of the train station, both inside as well as other nearby areas.