AIRAS brings together bulletins, sensors, maps, and the territory's document archive into a single interface. Each response links back to the official document from which it originates.
It's not a black box. Every statement is linked to the original document, with the page number and source, and every area mentioned is linked to the map.
Emergency plans, procedures, ordinances, post-event reports, and hydrological records become a searchable database alongside real-time data from rain gauges, water level gauges, snow depth gauges, and webcams.
One interface for the municipal area and one for the region, staffed by specialists in cartography, telemetry, and technical documentation.
The first institutional implementation of AIRAS, developed in collaboration with CAE S.p.A. and launched with ARPAE Emilia-Romagna, the Regional Agency for Prevention, the Environment, and Energy. A dedicated instance, hosted on CINECA’s infrastructure, processes post-event reports from 2023 through July 2026, as well as hydrological annals and annual weather and climate reports. The operational phase will get into full swing with the start of the fall season.
Ex Machina is a strategic technology partner of REG4IA (Regions for Artificial Intelligence), the national program of the Department for Digital Transformation, within the hub focused on territorial resilience and security. In Emilia-Romagna, the project begins with a real-time simulation of the Lamone River’s levee routes—developed following the May 2023 flood—and extends it to the Senio River, which spans approximately 101 kilometers. The Group is developing a conversational agent that makes the results of the universities’ models accessible to those working in the region.
With AIRAS WIR, an app available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, you can report floods, fires, landslides, tornadoes, snow, and ice in just a few seconds from your smartphone. You can attach up to 5 photos and your location, and the report is sent to the AIRAS system operators who manage weather emergencies.
Alert bulletins, forecasts, identified risk areas, uploaded documents, status indicators from rain gauges, snow gauges, and water level gauges, webcams, and contact information—all in a single view. The operational phase (none, caution, pre-alert, alert) is always highlighted.
An expandable map displays high-risk areas, hazard levels, and locations, along with status indicators and system-generated content.
Messages generated automatically, a multi-agent system tailored to the local area, and precise references to documents and map areas.
Post-event reports, ordinances, emergency plans, procedures, and unstructured documents: the system extracts the category, locations, date, keywords, and summary from them.
Bulletin, operational phase, map, content area, and chat—all on a single screen for the municipal operations center, with a direct link to the civil protection plan.
Statistics on uploaded documents, connected sensors, alerts extracted from the regional monitoring bulletin, and responses to ordinances with links to the sources.
Starting in 2024, the Ex Machina Group and CINECA, the interuniversity consortium for computer science, will collaborate on the AIRAS project under a three-year agreement. The instance dedicated to experimentation with ARPAE is hosted on CINECA’s high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure at the Bologna Technopole.
AIRAS's direct collaborations with public entities, agencies, and civil protection organizations.
