2.2 episecc project overview

Establish Pan-European Information Space to Enhance seCurity of Citizens

Funded from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/SEC 2013.5.1-1 under the grant agreement no. 607078 “EPISECC”.

Project OverviewEPISECC in a Nutshell

Marie Christine BONNAMOUR PSCE

Basics

FP7 SEC 2013.5.1-1: Analysis and identification of security systems and data set used by first responders and police authorities – Capability Project

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Organisation Name Short CountryAIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH AIT ATAirbus Finland (former Cassidian Finland OY) CasFI FIAirbus France (former Cassidian SAS) CSD FRSveuciliste u Splitu (University of Split) UNIST HR

Public Safety Communication Europe Forum AISBL PSCE BE

HITEC Luxembourg S.A. HITEC LU

Frequentis AG FRQ ATDeutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt EV DLR DEHW Communications Limited HWC UKTETRA MoU Association Ltd TCCA UK

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven KULeuven BE

IES Solutions SRL IES ITTechnische Universität Graz TUG AT

Challenges• Interoperability, interconnectivity as well

intercommunication of systems are

predominant challenges in European

crisis and disaster management

• 34% of all requests of stakeholders on

Improvement of disaster management are related

to improved interoperability

(followed by resources and technical solutions, 15% each)

• Apart from language barriers, lack of common taxonomies and standardized Network

Enabled Communication are hampering European interoperability


Motivation• Key requirements for services in crisis situations

• First 72 hours after a catastrophe are crucial


I. Efficient communication II. access to critical informationIII. interconnectedness of stakeholders

However, services are often compromised and need to be re-established.

Need to provide communication tools and information collection within this period

The EU Projects• 4 projects were granted for this call and will all end mid-2017:

EPISECC (Establish Pan-European Information Space

to Enhance seCurity of Citizens)

REDIRNET (Emergency Responder Data Interoperability Network)

SECINCORE (Secure Dynamic Cloud for Information,

Communication and Resource Interoperability)

SECTOR (Secure European Common Information Space for the Interoperability

of First Responders and Police Authorities)

• EPISECC approach:

A CIS with focus on information exchange at tactical/strategic levels in response to

critical events


COMMON ACTIONS- Task Forces• Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (ELSI): Open collaboration

platform on ELSI guidelines, Workshop on ELSI in networked, collaborative public

protection and disaster relief (17.5.16, Brussels), White Paper on IT in risk

governance to be published in fall 2016

• Standardisation: CEN Workshop on terminologies in crisis and disaster

management in preparation

• Taxonomy: Alignment of basic sources applied, harmonization of tools and

taxonomies, complementary ontology implementation

• Dissemination: Interaction in (social) media, joint representation


Requirements & Vision


The vision: to develop a concept of a common information space

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Objectives1. Develop a pan-European inventory of past critical

events/disasters and their consequences focusing on the performance of processes, data exchange and organisational boundaries

2. Develop a concept of a common information space including appropriate semantic definitions by taxonomies and/or ontologies.

3. Analysing existing interoperability concepts and derive concept of a common information space

4. Validation of the architecture and suggestion of novel Emergency and Crisis Management Models


Workpackages


Nr. Title Lead

WP1 Coordination and Management AIT

WP2 Analysis of past crisis management approaches TUG

WP3 Pan European Inventory of events/disasters DLR

WP4 Taxonomy building UNIST

WP5 Architecture of Common Information space FRQ

WP6 Proof of Concept & Validation AIT

WP7 Legal & Ethic aspects KULeuven

WP8 Dissemination PSCE

WP9 Exploitation & Standardisation IES

Areas of the Inventory


Crisis Management(emergency management,

recovery management, strategies, etc.)

Disaster Types & Context Data

(threats, dangers, scale, duration, affected people, etc.)

Critical Infrastructures

(energy, information and communication, mobility

and logistics, etc.)

Science(social science, engineering,

natural science, etc.)




Questionnaire – Interface to Stakeholders

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• Information on interviewed Organization• Focus on specific event (Disaster) including used processes, measures, standards, data

resources, tools, cooperation with other organizations and interoperability

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Summary of Outcome from Inventory• More than 50 interviews were performed interviewing mainly

governmental organizations• Interoperability was in most cases at least acceptable according to a

indicator developed on purpose• Regarding use of common standards and tools the degree of

harmonization seems to be low in Europe• The majority of disasters analyzed were natural, hydrological disasters• About 180 requirements dedicated to improve management of disasters

were expressed, the majority of them are related to interoperability• Information obtained so far is used to improve the development of a

common information space and gives in addition insight in European crisis and disaster management - we continue to look for additional areas of application of the EPISECC inventory


Taxonomy Building for the Common Information Space





Layers of Interoperability


Common Information Space - overview

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Common Information Space

Internet

Value Added Service(WIXXM WMS/WFS)

SOAPREST

Adap

tor

Enterprise Service Bus orService registry and peer-to-peer network

Adaptor

Metadatamodel, Taxonomy,

Translation Tables

Adaptor

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Transl.

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Transl.

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AdminWorkStation

CAP,

EDXL

e.g. TSO

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Common Information Space - Adaptors

Tool-A adaptor

Tool-A

CIS Connector: - connectivity- syntax- semantic• manages external

connection• drives communication to

external channels• converts Tool’s protocol

to CIS standard• translates key-values

according CIS standard

implemented per tool based on CIS templates

SOAP

/ RE

ST /

RSS

/ …

CIS Core: - authentication- authorisation- validation- CIS services• checks authentication• controls authorisation• validates messages• buffers large binaries• value-added services:

- legal recording- reporting- statistics…

CIS standard protocols (CAP / TSO / …)

Tool-1 adaptorTool-2 adaptor

Tool-n adaptor

CIS Distributor:- communication- synchronisation• publishes/subscribes to

CIS• supports sync mechanism

specific to selected CIS communication paradigm

ESB / Peer-to-Peer / …

Tool-1Tool-2

Tool-n

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