Paramita Guha, Arun Ram Prasath R T, Manish Kumar Tamrakar, Shrikrishan, Priyanka Jain
CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, India an apex level body which provides calibration services to various secondary, tertiary calibration and testing labs and industries across the country. In general, calibration reports are commonly created in paper or word format to produce PDFs, which are time-consuming, tedious, and susceptible to human errors. Due to this several issues, BIPM- France is taking suitable goals to overcome this issue through the development of DCC. As globally leading NMIs like PTB, Germany, etc were working towards DCC developments, CSIR-NPL (NMI of India) takes part in...
TC6 M4Dconf2025
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· 2025
· 10.21014/tc6-2025.066
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Ahdrian Camilo C. Gernale, Nathaniel Ken A. Aquino, Roj Gian D. Gorospe, Mark Joseph C. Nicasio
This paper presents the design and implementation of a system application named DigiCert, a Digital Calibration Certificate (DCC) application developed by the National Metrology Laboratory of the Philippines (NMLPhil) of the Industrial Technology Development Institute to modernize calibration workflows and enhance certificate management through standardized, machine-readable documentation. DigiCert improves the process of changing old formats like scanned images and PDF files into organized XML using the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) DCC XML schema. It also allows for manual...
TC6 M4Dconf2025
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· 2025
· 10.21014/tc6-2025.065
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Jens Niederhausen
How do we best transition from an outdated QI with many manual processes and analogue quality documents to an efficient and interconnected QI that fully leverages digital and automatized processes and granular quality data? This paper aims to identify digital transition strategies that can account for the realistic boundary conditions that exist in today’s diverse QI landscape, particularly the different digital maturity levels across institutions and nations as well as elaborate regulatory frameworks. Informed by related initiatives, the paper presents promising approaches to map out...
TC6 M4Dconf2025
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· 2025
· 10.21014/tc6-2025.064
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Anna-Maria Elert, Lena Meyer, Nanine Brunner, Michael Melzer, Claudia Koch
The digital Quality Infrastructure (QI) holds significant potential for ensuring and enhancing the accuracy, reliability, and efficiency of laboratory processes. Establishing digital QI tools and processes and the integration into the larger digital QI ecosystem however comes with many technical and organizational challenges at the laboratory but also larger system level. This paper presents solutions of a digital QI tool set that are being developed within the German initiative QI-Digital, our own experiences in the implementation of Digital Calibration Certificates (DCCs) as eAttestation...
TC6 M4Dconf2025
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· 2025
· 10.21014/tc6-2025.063
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Peter Blattner, Oscar De Feo, Fabiano Assi
In response to the accelerating digitalization of society, the Swiss Quality Infrastructure (QI) is undergoing a strategic transformation. To support this, METAS organized a two-part workshop series in 2024 and 2025. The first workshop mapped the complex stakeholder landscape and explored key QI concepts like competence and trust, highlighting both formal and informal relationships. The second workshop moved from analysis to action, identifying pain points and generating digital solution ideas, including AI, and machine-readable standards. Participants identified possible initiatives such as...
TC6 M4Dconf2025
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· 2025
· 10.21014/tc6-2025.062
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Ihtisham Ul Haq, Luigi D’Alfonso, Giuseppe Fedele, Francesco Lamonaca
Accurate and traceable drone positioning is crucial for autonomous aerial navigation, especially in GNSS-denied environments. Traditional approaches using Ultra-Wideband (UWB) sensors or Kalman Filters (KF) struggle with multipath interference, non-line-of-sight, and environmental uncertainties, and are often limited to Linux-based Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). This work presents an innovative framework based on: a novel modular Windows-based API for real-time drone positioning, the integration of Kalman filter for optimal multi-sensor data fusion and trajectory smoothing,...
TC6 M4Dconf2025
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· 2025
· 10.21014/tc6-2025.061
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Mads Johansen, Anupam Prasad Vedurmudi, Martha Arbayani Zaidan, Milos Davidovic, Gertjan Kok, Maitane Iturrate-Garcia, Shahin Tabandeh
Sensor networks are becoming increasingly practical to deploy in largely varying settings, which combined with the growing availability of low-cost sensors and the increasing scale of sensor networks, makes it highly challenging to ensure the trustworthiness and reliability of measurements and data. Factors such as physical inaccessibility and cost constraints make it infeasible to use established methods for calibration, further increasing the difficulty of assessing measurement uncertainty and ensuring traceability in sensor networks. In addition, the large volume of data generated makes...
TC6 M4Dconf2025
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· 2025
· 10.21014/tc6-2025.060
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Nikita D Zviagin
On the first Meeting of the CIPM Forum on Metrology and Digitalization (FORUM MD) in March 2024 several task and working groups were established. Amongst them is the Working Group on RMO Coordination (FORUM MD WG RMO) which includes the chairpersons of working or task groups responsible for the digitalization projects inside 6 RMOs (AFRIMETS, APMP, COOMET, EURAMET, GULFMET and SIM). One of the main tasks of the group is to provide a link through RMOs between the Forum and every NMI (and their stakeholders), including NMIs that are not participating in the work of the Forum and are not yet...
TC6 M4Dconf2025
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· 2025
· 10.21014/tc6-2025.059
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Deepak Sharma, Divya Singh Yadav, Preeti Kandpal, Bharath Vattikonda, Ashish Agarwal
Time synchronization is a critical aspect of modern IT systems. The Network Time Protocol (NTP) plays a crucial role in maintaining consistent and accurate time across digital infrastructure worldwide. NTP is aligned with digital metrology vision, enabling precise timekeeping through the remote correction of clocks. National Metrology Institutes (NMIs) around the world, the custodians of national time standards, play a pivotal role in disseminating accurate time information through NTP services. Multiple NTP servers are generally considered for redundancy and load distribution. To maintain...
TC6 M4Dconf2025
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· 2025
· 10.21014/tc6-2025.058
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Fahad A. AlMuhlaki, Saad A. Bin Qoud, Rayan A. AlYousefi, I. AlFaleh, N. Qahtani, Khaled AlEnizi, AbdulRahman AlMrhom, A. El-Matarawey
In the field of laboratory proficiency testing and method validation, linking to international standards such as ISO 13528, ISO 17043 and ISO 5725-2 is essential for ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and inter-laboratory comparability. However, simple implementation these standards can be led to insufficient error-handling and difficult to scale across large datasets. This study introduces a novel Python-based AI framework automating ISO 13528 and ISO 5725-2 compliance, enhancing data integrity and decision-making confidence. We introduce a robust software framework built on modern Python...
TC6 M4Dconf2025
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· 2025
· 10.21014/tc6-2025.057
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