The transalpine pipeline commits to develop new projects for quantum-based data transmission.

On 6 October, SIOT signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the subject of quantum communication with QTI, a spin-off of the National Research Council (CNR) that deals with quantum technology, and Telsy, a Tim Group company, for the development of a cybersecurity system based on quantum physics.
This agreement stems from the Framework Convention on quantum communication applied to the transport and logistics sectors signed last July between the Port Authority of the Eastern Adriatic Sea and the main scientific institutions in the area, the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), the University of Trieste, Area Science Park and the National Research Council (CNR).
Quantum communication is not only an important topic on a scientific level, but also on an industrial level.
As a matter of fact, the MoU enshrines a commercial and operational collaboration within the Framework Convention signed by the port authority with the main scientific institutions in the area, making the know-how of the academic and research world become an asset for the competitiveness of the port and its terminal operators.
Siot will be the first infrastructure of the port of Trieste to participate in the development of marketable projects able to protect the transmission of information, making it hacker-proof. In fact, the port of Trieste aims to be the first to apply quantum cryptography systems to the port’s logistics system: the cryptographic system will be called upon to protect all information between ship and dock and all digital management systems of Trieste port facility.

“We signed the MoU,” commented SIOT President Alessio Lilli, “in order to develop projects and increase security from cyber attacks, strengthening the computer data protection system.
Quantum Communication represents the first step on a path that we intend to follow to verify the possibility of increasing our level of cyber security to protect our infrastructure. There is another aspect of the memorandum that we would like to point out and that is the possibility provided by the TAL Group of contributing to the creation of a strategic European centre for quantum communication. These business opportunities will both be brought into focus by the team of professionals that will soon start this project, effectively implementing the memorandum of agreement’.