Project description
Securing water to safeguard society's lifeline
Water critical infrastructures (CIs), such as water treatment plants, distribution systems, dams and reservoirs, are under increasing threat from physical and cyber risks. These risks endanger human society, life and health. In this context, the EU-funded STOP-IT project has brought together major water utilities, technology developers, and EU R&D providers to develop an all-hazards risk management framework that combines mature and novel technologies. The project’s overall aim is to protect water CIs through prevention, detection, response, and mitigation strategies, fostering collaboration between advanced utilities and ambitious counterparts. STOP-IT will deliver hands-on training, best practice guidelines, and support for certification and standardisation while leveraging market opportunities and the EU water technology platform's network to safeguard these vital infrastructures.
Objective
Water critical infrastructures (CIs) are essential for human society, life and health and they can be endangered by physical/cyber threats with severe societal consequences. To address this, STOP-IT assembles a team of major Water Utilities, industrial technology developers, high tech SMEs and top EU R&D providers. It organizes communities of practice for water systems protection to identify current and future risk landscapes and to co-develop an all-hazards risk management framework for the physical and cyber protection of water CIs. Prevention, Detection, Response and Mitigation of relevant risks at strategic, tactical and operational levels of planning will be taken into account to generate modular solutions (technologies, tools and guidelines) and an integrated software platform. STOP-IT solutions are based on: a) mature technologies improved via their combination and embedment (incl. public warning systems, smart locks) and b) novel technologies whose TRL will be increased (incl. cyber threat incident services, secure wireless sensor communications modules, context-aware anomaly detection technologies; fault-tolerant control strategies for SCADA integrated sensors, high-volume real-time sensor data protection via blockchain schemes; authorization engines; irregular human detection using new computer vision methods and WiFi and efficient water contamination detection algorithms). STOP-IT solutions are demonstrated through a front-runner/follower approach where 4 advanced utilities, Aigües de Barcelona (ES), Berliner Wasserbetriebe (DE), MEKOROT (IL) and Oslo VAV (NO) are twinned with 4 less advanced, but ambitious ones, to stimulate mutual learning, transfer and uptake. Building on this solid basis STOP-IT delivers high impact through the creation of hands-on training, best practice guidelines, support for certification and standardization as well as by fostering market opportunities, also leveraging the EU water technology platform's multi-stakeholder network.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitydata protection
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencecomputer vision
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- social sciencessociologygovernancecrisis management
- engineering and technologycivil engineeringstructural engineeringhydraulic engineering
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7034 Trondheim
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Participants (33)
45476 Mulheim An Der Ruhr
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08940 CORNELLA DE LLOBREGAT BARCELONA
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29590 MALAGA
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3433 PE NIEUWEGEIN
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08290 Cerdanyola Del Valles (Barcelona)
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32000 Haifa
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28037 Madrid
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28760 Tres Cantos Madrid
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61201 Tel Aviv
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08028 Barcelona
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08038 BARCELONA
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64521 GROSS-GERAU
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0037 Oslo
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106 82 ATHINA
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5014 Bergen
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10179 Berlin
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1030 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1930 Zaventem
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2289 DC Rijswijk
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00189 Roma
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2289 DC RIJSWIJK
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KADIMA
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18009 Granada
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08014 Barcelona
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10707 Berlin
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0255 Oslo
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1030 Bruxelles / Brussel
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08013 BARCELONA
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7034 Trondheim
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08012 BARCELONA
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2289 DC Rijswijk
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00189 Roma
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28760 Tres Cantos Madrid
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