RAIN: Risk Analysis of Infrastructure Networks in Response to Extreme Weather

RAIN proyecto

RAIN project ´s objective is to provide operational analysis to identify the impact of extreme weather conditions on the components of critical infrastructure and minimize their effects on the E. U´s infrastructure networks.

RAIN has focused on ground infrastructure, particularly on ancillary infrastructure networks to identify cascading events and associated infrastructure problems. A key aspect of the analysis is the impact of climate change on vulnerable and old infrastructure.

The robustness of existing transport and energy networks to face changing weather conditions has been carefully analyzed. The capacity of this plan to respond beyond the borders has been guaranteed by the multidisciplinary consortium. The Project group has experience in climatology, operational analysis, transport economy, analysis and mitigation, as well as design and evaluation.

The RAIN consortium partners are:

  • THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN, TCD (Ireland).
  • GAVIN AND DOHERTY GEOSOLUTIONS LTD (Gavin and Doherty, Ge Ireland).
  • Istituto di Sociologia Internazionale di Gorizia I.S.I.G ISIG (Italy).
  • HELLENBERG INTERNATIONAL OY HELLENBERG (Finland).
  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT TU (Delft, Netherlands).
  • APLICACIONES EN INFORMATICA AVANZADA SL (Spain).
  • ILMATIETEEN LAITOS ILMATIETEEN LAITOS (Finland).
  • European Severe Storms Laboratory e.V. ESSL (Germany).
  • ZILINSKA UNIVERZITA V ZILINE UNIZA (Slovakia).
  • ROUGHAN & O’DONOVAN LIMITED ROD (Ireland).
  • UNION FENOSA DISTRIBUCION SA UFD (Spain).
  • FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN FUB (Germany).
  • PRAK PETER LEONARD PSJ (Netherlands).
  • COMYOURIS (Belgium).
  • DRAGADOS SA (Spain).

 

GRUPO AIA provided expert knowledge in electrical grids network and telecommunications infrastructure. It designed and developed an extreme weather risk assessment tool with an incident forecasting module of infrastructure network and elements.

The project was developed between 2014 and 2017.

Further information of the project:

slideshare.net (in English)

https://github.com/grupoaia/rain-fp7 (in English)

 

RAIN proyecto

This Project has been funded by the Seventh Program of the European Union for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No. 608166

Further information of the Project click http://rain-project.eu

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EMILI

EMILI proyecto

The EMILI project (“Emergency Management in Large Infrastructures”) is a European project aimed at creating a new generation of control systems for large critical infrastructure (ICs) such as power grids, telecommunications systems, airports, subways, trains and pipelines. These ICs are currently experiencing substantial technical, economic, organizational, political and legal changes. Its importance in society is growing in all aspects, and the set of dependencies between them is growing more and more.

Under these conditions, we need a new form of control to provide security in ICs, especially in emergencies and crises. The EMILI approach is based on a new generation of technologies such as complex event processing (CEP), the active Web and the Semantic Web.
EMILI unites leading research groups in data management and operational management, complex event processing, reactivity, knowledge representation and SCADA systems with industrial partners that provide use cases and “know-how” for SCADA systems in airports, public transport, and electrical networks.

The other project partners are:

  • Fraunhofer Institut (Germany) (Project leader)
  • Skytec AG (Germany)
  • Asit AG (Switzerland)
  • CWI (Centrum voor Wiskunde en informatica) (Netherlands)
  • Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München (Germany)
  • Institut Mihajlo Pupin (Serbia)

 

Grupo AIA’s role in the project is the development of intelligent interpretation systems for real-time SCADA alarms and events in the grid.

The project ran from 2010 to 2012.

More info: http://www.emili-project.eu/

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IRRIIS

IRRIIS proyecto europeo

 

The overall functioning of public life and economic and social development depends on critical infrastructures (ICs) such as electricity or telecommunications networks. The European project IRRIIS (“Integrated Risk Reduction of Information-based Infrastructure Systems”) focused on protecting these infrastructures.

The extensive use of information and communication technologies (ICT) has been extended to other infrastructures, being more and more intelligent, interconnected, complex, interdependent, and therefore vulnerable.

IRRIIS increased the reliability, survivability and resilience of these structures and:

  • Determined a set of requirements from both the public and private scenarios based on detailed data analysis.
  • Developed MIT (Middleware Improved Technology), a collection of software components that facilitate communication between different infrastructures and suppliers. Supporting recovery actions and increasing service stability in case of critical situations, MIT components substantially improve the safety of large critical infrastructures.
  • Built SimCIP (Simulation for Critical Infrastructure Protection), a simulation environment for controlled experimentation with a major focus on interdependency in ICs. The simulator is used to increase understanding of the ICs and their interdependencies, identifying potential problems and developing appropriate solutions to validate and test the MIT components.

 

The other project partners were:

  • Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (Germany)
  • Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, l’Energia e l’Ambiente (Italy)
  • Supériere Ecole Nationale des Telecommunications (France)
  • Siemens AG (Germany)
  • Telecom Italia SpA (Italy)
  • Centre for Software Reliability at City University London (United Kingdom)
  • Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (Switzerland)
  • Alcatel Lucent (France)
  • The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (Netherlands)
  • VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (Finland)
  • Advanced Industrial Systems Ltd. (Malta)
  • Red Eléctrica of Spain (Spain)
  • Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH (Germany)
  • Distribuzione ACEA SpA (Italy)

Grupo AIA’s role was to provide consulting expertise in the electricity network in order to build a coherent model of failure analysis.

 

The project was developed between 2006 and 2009.

http://www.irriis.org/

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