Objective The SCIER project will design, develop, and demonstrate an integrated system of sensors, networking and computing infrastructure for detecting, monitoring, predicting and assisting in the crisis management of natural hazards or accidents at the "urban-rural-interface" (URI), i.e. in areas where forests and rural lands interface with homes, other buildings and infrastructures. The overall goal of the SCIER system is to make the much neglected URI zone safer for the European citizens against any type of natural hazards or accidents.To achieve its ambitious objective, SCIER pushes the state of the art and combines several technologies:1) self-organizing, self-healing re-configurable sensor networks for the detection and monitoring of disastrous natural hazards,2) advanced sensor data fusion and management schemes capable of deducing the required information needed for accurately monitoring the dynamics of multiple interrelated evolving hazardous phenomena (multi-risk),3) environmental risk models for predicting the evolution of hazardous phenomena using a robust GRID computing infrastructure.The proposed system promotes public-private sector cooperation: indeed, SCIER involves the private sector (e.g. house/land owner, security company) as an "active player" in the URI zone protection and the monitoring of hazardous events. A prototype system integrates state-of-the-art sensors (e.g. vision sensors, wireless sensor networks with low energy requirements) with the communications and computing infrastructure. The SCIER system will be demonstrated and evaluated in four European regions (Greece, France, Czech Republic and Portugal). Such sites have suffered in the past from forest fires and/or floods.The project mobilizes partners from research institutes, academia, public authorities and SMEs and service providers from (7) EU countries which combine specialized skills with complementary expertise to fully cover the project requirements. Fields of science engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorssmart sensorssocial sciencessociologygovernancecrisis managementnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesphysical geographynatural disasterssocial sciencespolitical sciencesgovernment systems Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2005-2.5.12 - ICT for Environmental Risk Management Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator EPSILON INTERNATIONAL S.A. EU contribution No data Address 27 monemvassias street 15125 Marousi, athens Greece See on map Total cost No data Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ASSOCIACAO PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO DA AERODINAMICA INDUSTRIAL Portugal EU contribution No data Address Rue pedro hispano 12 3030 289 Coimbra See on map Total cost No data CENTRE SUISSE D'ELECTRONIQUE ET DE MICROTECHNIQUE SA - RECHERCHE ET DEVELOPPEMENT Switzerland EU contribution No data Address Rue jaquet-droz 1 2007 Neuchatel See on map Total cost No data DHI HYDROINFORM A.S. Czechia EU contribution No data Address Na vrsich 5 10000 Praha 10 See on map Total cost No data ENTENTE INTERDEPARTEMENTALE EN VUE DE LA PROTECTION DE LA FORET ET DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT CONTRE L'INCENDIE France EU contribution No data Address Domaine de valabre rd7 13120 Gardanne See on map Total cost No data ETHNIKO IDRYMA AGROTIKIS EREUNAS Greece EU contribution No data Address 19 egialias and chalepa street 151 25 Paradissos naroussi athina See on map Total cost No data G4S SECURITY SERVICES (UK) LIMITED* United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Carshalton road 15 SM1 4LD Sutton See on map Total cost No data GREEK RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY NETWORK S.A. Greece EU contribution No data Address Mesogeion av. 56 11527 Athens See on map Total cost No data NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS Greece EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data TECNOMA SA Spain EU contribution No data Address Calle gomera 9 28700 Madrid See on map Total cost No data