Case Study: Kier Highways achieves smarter, future-proof tunnel control with Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions

Kier Highways upgrades Meir Tunnel with Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions and zero downtime

The customer, Kier Highways, a leading UK highways management company, faced the challenge of upgrading the control system for the unmanned Meir Tunnel to future-proof their asset management and improve engineering response times. They needed a solution to monitor critical assets with zero downtime and allow operators to visualize data remotely. Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions, through its partner Core Control Solutions, provided its GENESIS64 SCADA software to meet this challenge.

The solution implemented by Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions involved a state-of-the-art Tunnel Control System utilizing a hot-standby PLC and the GENESIS64 platform with HTML5 technology. This provided robust data visualization from any mobile device and integrated all tunnel assets. The results for Kier Highways included a future-proof system with substantially improved data collection and presentation, enabling operators to respond quicker to situations and turning data into actionable intelligence.

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