SmartResilience has yielded 5 major break-through results:
1. Method:
An innovative state-of-the art concept enabling quantitative assessment of resilience. The concept aims combines the advantages of approaches oriented towards the easy-to-understand communication of the assessments results (such as “resilience very high” or “resilience level red”) with the advantages of the in-depth assessment approaches, providing many, but often difficult to understand results (e.g. detailed textual reports from complex resilience exercises). This main elements of the indicator-based concept are the “resilience cube” at the top, and the assessment methodology allowing to (a) assess resilience in a given moment in time and monitor it over the time, (b) analyze it during a particular adverse effect scenario, (c) benchmark it, (d) stress-test it, (e) analyze it in a system of multiple infrastructures and, last but not least, (f) optimize it a transparent and intuitive way. The concept is public, presented in publications and presentation and is being summarized in a book under preparation with the publisher (Springer).
2. Tool:
The concept is applied within a web-based system, the main elements of which are the resilience indicator database (over 4,000 indicators available, over 3,000 indicators and almost 1,000 issues), the web-suite of tools (over 20different, combining those pertinent and developed within SmartResilience project with the “” external” ones) and repository of the application cases, the later in itself supporting future analyses.
3. Applications:
The concept has been practically applied in 19 case studies in which over 300 different resilience assessments were made, about 30% of those made for the stakeholders outside the project (e.g. in other DRS EU projects or the institutions supporting the partners in the projects – e.g. ministries). The concept has been discussed and agreed with over 50 different organizational stakeholders, setup at 7 external-to-the-project “MySmartResilience” sub-sites.
4. Standard:
The project results, at the end of the project, are being embedded into the new ISO 31050 standard currently under development.
5. Beyond-the-project use:
The “life-after-the-project” of the project results will be practically ensured by the dedicated “resilience rating agency”, the creation of which is initiated at the end of the project (ensuring free-of-charge use after the project), and the educational platform running under the umbrella of the site of one of the academic partners in project.
The main results of the projects are already used in the follow-up EU projects and other initiatives.
CHALLENGES:
Once work on the project started, the greatest difficulties/challenges were (a) lack of standardized, indicator-based resilience assessment methodology for “non-smart” critical infrastructure – the project had to propose an approach equally applicable to smart and non-smart critical infrastructure, (b) lack of “mandate” to prescribe the indicators – i.e. the project has been in the position to propose, but its proposals were not binding in any way to any of the, e.g. infrastructure owners, and (c) lack of understanding of possible use of indicators – the indicators-based SmartResilience approach is primarily intended for use in scenario analysis (pre & post), what-if analysis and monitoring of resilience management. Hence, the infrastructure owners, insurers and national resilience agencies could naturally profit more than, e.g. first responders in the “heat of the absorb/respond phases” of the resilience cycle.
SMARTRESILIENCE TOOL:
The ResilienceTool can be used free-of-charge, registration is managed by ERRA, apply at
http://erra.eu-vri.eu/registration.aspx(se abrirá en una nueva ventana).
