2–3 Feb 2023
Roma Monte Mario
Europe/Rome timezone

The ASTRI Mini-Array Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition software system

3 Feb 2023, 11:50
25m
Roma Monte Mario

Roma Monte Mario

Speaker

Andrea Bulgarelli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

Description

The ASTRI Mini-Array is an international collaboration led by INAF and devoted to imaging at-
mospheric Cherenkov light for very-high γ-ray astronomy. The project is deploying an array of 9

4-m class Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes at the Teide Observatory on Tenerife, in the
Canary Islands, most sensitive to γ-ray radiation above 1 TeV. The Supervisory Control and Data
Acquisition (SCADA) system controls all the operations carried out on-site, from the execution of
an observing plan to the acquisition of scientific data. SCADA provides monitoring and online
observations quality information to help assess data quality during the acquisition. Moreover, the
system provides automated reactions to critical conditions. SCADA handles the automated data

transfer to the Data Center at the Observatory in Rome through a high-speed networking con-
nection, allowing us to operate the array remotely from different locations. In this contribution,

we describe the software architecture of the SCADA system, the team organisation, the software
engineering development approach and the software quality management.

Primary author

Andrea Bulgarelli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

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