MWC Open Innovation Challenge 2026

2–5 Mar 2026 | Barcelona, Spain

ChallengeUpdated on 26 January 2026

Smart Infrastructure & Asset Management

Innovation Specialist at Terna

Padova, Italy

About

As transmission infrastructures age and operational complexity increases, TSOs must enhance the resilience, reliability, and lifecycle performance of existing assets.
Digital technologies and advanced analytics offer new opportunities to shift from reactive maintenance to predictive, risk-based, and proactive asset management.

Solutions should enable Terna to:

  • Anticipate failures and reduce unplanned outages

  • Optimize maintenance strategies and asset lifetime

  • Enable predictive and adaptive decision-making

We are particularly interested in solutions addressing:

  • Predictive maintenance and condition-based monitoring for transmission lines, substations, and critical components

  • Advanced analytics combining sensor data, historical failures, and environmental data

  • Asset criticality assessment and risk-based maintenance prioritization

  • Tools to optimize asset lifetime while maintaining safety and reliability

  • Platforms enabling real-time or near-real-time situational awareness of asset health

Topic

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Big Data
  • Edge/Cloud computing
  • IOT
  • Systems Integration & Advanced Manufacturing

Type

  • Proof of concept/pilot testing
  • Investment (Venture capital and corporate venturing)

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