Improvements on the UTC(IT) timescale at INRIM

A new measurement system (in the following indicated as switch) had been introduced at INRIM Time Laboratory (TL), to grant to UTC(IT) time scale better characteristics in terms of robustness and reliability, especially when a change from primary and backup time scale realizations, is required. A complete description of the system implementing such a switching process is described in the present paper, together with the analysis of the results and the performed functional tests.