SmartResilience
 
 
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SMART RESILIENCE INDICATORS FOR SMART CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES
Acronym: SmartResilience
Start date: May 1, 2016
End date: April 30, 2019
Total project value: ~ 5 Million €
Project coordinator: EU-VRi
Total number of partners: 20
Contact person (name/email): Prof Dr. Aleksandar Jovanovic / jovanovicrisk-technologies.com
Project webpage R-Tech/EU-VRi: https://smartresilience2.eu-vri.eu/xxxx
Official webpage (coordinator): https://www.smartresilience.eu-vri.eu/
Resilience Cube
Description: Modern critical infrastructures are becoming increasingly “smarter” (e.g. cities). Making the infrastructures “smarter” usually means making them smarter in normal operation and use: more adaptive, more intelligent… But will these smart critical infrastructures (SCIs) behave equally “smartly” and be “smartly resilient” also when exposed to extreme threats, such as extreme weather disasters or terrorist attacks? If making existing infrastructure “smarter” is achieved by making it more complex, would it also make it more vulnerable? Would this affect resilience of an SCI as its ability to anticipate, prepare for, adapt and withstand, respond to, and recover? These are the main questions tackled by this proposal.
The project envisages answering the above questions in several steps. (#1) By identifying existing indicators suitable for assessing resilience of SCIs. (#2) By identifying new “smart” resilience indicators (RIs) – including those from Big Data. (#3) By developing a new advanced resilience assessment methodology (TRL4) based on smart RIs (“resilience indicators cube”, including the resilience matrix). (#4) By developing the interactive “SCI Dashboard” tool. (#5) By applying the methodology/ tools in 8 case studies, integrated under one virtual, smart-city-like, European case study. The SCIs considered (in 8 European countries!) deal with energy, transportation, health, water… Results #2, #3, #4 and #5 are a breakthrough innovation.
This approach will allow benchmarking the best-practice solutions and identifying the early warnings, improving resilience of SCIs against new threats and cascading and ripple effects. The benefits/savings to be achieved by the project will be assessed by the reinsurance company participant. The consortium involves 7 leading end-users/industries in the area, 7 leading research organizations, supported by academia and lead by a dedicated European organization. External world leading resilience experts will be included in the CIRAB.
R-Tech Specific Role: R-Tech contributes to:
WP1 on Establishing the project baseline and the common framework
WP2 on Challenges and interdependencies of Smart City Infrastructures (SCIs)
WP3 on The SmartResilience Indicator-based methodology for assessing, predicting & monitoring the resilience of SCIs for optimized multi-criteria decision making
WP4 on Defining classic and deriving smart Resilience Indicators (RIs)
WP5 on SCI-Resilience: Application in Smart City Case Studies
WP6 on Dissemination and Exploitation