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The Elettra Synchrotron, located in Italy near Trieste, has been operating for users since 1994 being the first third generation light source for soft X-rays in Europe. To stay competitive for world-class photon science, a massive upgrade of the storage ring has been planned in 2025. The goal is to build an ultra low emittance light source with ultra-high brilliance in the same building as the present storage ring. The Elettra 2.0 project includes the construction of new beamlines and an extensive upgrade of most of the existing beamlines to fully exploit the high brightness and high degree of coherence offered by the new source. In this scenario the original beamline interlock and personnel safety systems are going to be upgraded using state of the art technologies. Siemens PLCs are used for low level control, while higher level applications are developed using the Tango framework. Particular attention was paid to the design of the hosting crates in order to have a modular, compact and easy to assemble solution. Also the software architecture has been designed for having a standard reusable schema. PLC data structures and code are automatically created by means of Python scripts, minimizing development time and human errors. This work presents and describes the architecture of the next Elettra 2.0 Beamline Interlock System named GeCo (Gestione e Controllo in italian).
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