Project description
Ensuring safe and secure open spaces in European smart cities
Smart cities need to ensure a secure and safe physical and digital ecosystem for the well-being of EU citizens. The EU-funded S4AllCities project aims to make cities’ infrastructures, services, ICT systems and Internet of Things more resilient while promoting intelligence and information sharing amongst security stakeholders. To achieve this, it will integrate advanced technological and organisational solutions into a market-oriented, unified cyber–physical security management framework. The system will focus on risk-based open smart spaces security management, cybersecurity shielding, suspicious activity, behaviour tracking, the identification of unattended objects, the real-time estimation of cyber–physical risks in multiple locations and measures activation for effective crisis management. This work will play a role in promoting good safety and security practices in European cities.
Objective
Smart cities have frontline responsibility to ensure a secure and safe physical and digital ecosystem promoting cohesive and sustainable urban development for the well being of EU citizens. S4AllCities integrates advanced technological and organizational solutions in a market oriented unified Cyber – Physical Security Management framework, aiming at raising the resilience of cities’ infrastructures, services, ICT systems, IoT and fostering intelligence and information sharing among city’s security stakeholders.
Three pilot cases, with the engagement of a total of 5 cities in 4 countries (Spain, Romania, Czech Republic, Greece), enable S4ALLCITIES System of Systems to deploy and validate its intelligent components and functionalities on actual environment, ensuring the delivery of solutions and services in line with smart cities emerging requirements, focused on: risk-based open smart spaces security management; cyber security shielding; suspicious activity and behaviour tracking; identification of unattended objects; real-time estimation of cyber-physical risks in multiple locations and measures activation for effective crisis management. S4ALLCities smart components, integrated within 3 Digital Twin Systems, will demonstrate their technological advances in tackling terrorist attacks with high risk for mass casualties, within the complex environment of open crowded spaces.
The multidisciplinary consortium (9 EU countries) will exploit project’s innovative technological systems in the global market providing a cost efficient and market ready integrated solution. S4ALLCities exploitation phase will promote good practices and guidance material across EU cities so as to enhance capacity building of involved stakeholders, reduce the vulnerabilities of public spaces, mitigate the consequences of adversary attacks, raise public awareness and strike a balance between improving security and preserving the open nature of public spaces as well as citizens’ sense of freedom.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologycivil engineeringurban engineeringsmart cities
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of things
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical transitionsterrorism
- social sciencessociologygovernancecrisis management
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer security
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Participants (31)
BH12 5BB Poole
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28760 Tres Cantos Madrid
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28037 Madrid
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92350 Le Plessis Robinson
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20600 Eibar Guipuzcoa
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106 82 ATHINA
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BA2 3DQ Bath
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15561 ATHINA
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2321 KA Leiden
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11475 Athens
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39005 Santander
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2064 Lefkosia
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15342 Ag Paraskeyi
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38100 Trento
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10177 Athina
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180 00 Praha
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708 00 Ostrava Poruba
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330 12 Horni Briza
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301 00 Pilsen
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010158 Bucuresti
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42100 Trikala
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421 00 TRIKALA
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101 77 Athens
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01010 Vitoria-Gasteiz
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48001 Bilbao
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48007 Bilbao
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48000 Bilbao
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46002 Valencia
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120360 Buzau
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301 00 Plzen
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31192 Mutilva Alta Navarra
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