SERIT – SG8 Contributo per la preparazione di HORIZON 2020

Introduction (1/2) «Smart Cities and Communities» is a multidisciplinary theme, involving not only Energy and ICT, but also Mobility, Logistics and, specifically, Security. In fact Secure Societies require safe & secure cities and therefore Security needs to be a core part of any Smart City: there can be no smartness without safety and security A Smart City is by definition a Network of Networks, i.e. a cooperative environment in which many infrastructures (smart and not-so-smart) provide services to citizens These infrastructures are always interrelated (all, at a minimum, dependent on energy and TLC) and are therefore prone to the risk of a waterfall effect in case of failures

Introduction (2/2) In Smart Cities, Security must thus be considered along two dimensions: 1.Protection and resilience of the Network of Networks on which Smart Cities are based and on which they depend 2.Urban Security, both traditional and innovative (e.g. participated security)

Proposal 1/3 Smart Cities must: – define a common technology framework to address the opportunity to track events through the correlation of multiple heterogeneous data – implement common policies to address the way prevention, protection and mitigation of security events are managed in a cooperative way across the different city systems The technologies that must be deployed and/or integrated are many and heterogeneous, ranging from navigation to Earth observation from ground, air and space to inexpensive / unconventional field sensor networks to those technologies more generally referred as "smart": IT, TLC, Energy, … The common policies must foster collaboration and guarantee technology interoperability and costs sharing (e.g. current monitoring integrated with quick damage assessment, …)

Proposal 2/3 To orderly place Security within the policies, beginning straight from Research activities, we consider important to have specific Smart Cities sub-chapters in all Security Objectives of the related Calls These sub-chapters should be realized according to a common and high-level Smart Cities framework in order to guarantee the alignment of the various research activities As a specific example, Security sub-chapters should be added at least to 7.2, 7.5 and 7.7 topics

Proposal 3/3 Possible projects could regard: Development and/or integration of Earth Observation and Navigation technologies with TLC and IT in order to create a Smart City situational awareness and support current management of infrastructures Advanced analytics, with a specific focus on Big Data analysis, both for the holistic management of the risk cycle (from prevention to crisis management and recovery) and for the planning of Smart Cities’ resilience Innovative channels and applications for involving citizens in distributed sensing and information dissemination both in ordinary conditions and during crises.