Italian node of the European
Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Centre

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Italian node of the European
Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Centre!

EISAC is an international initiative aiming at establishing a collaborative, european-wide platform in the domain of Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), for supporting Operators and Public Authorities in better protecting assets and in enhancing their resilience with respect to all hazards.

EISAC national centres are empowered by advanced technologies and are available to support with different services all players in the Critical Infrastructure management.

EISAC.it results from a joint ENEA and INGV collaboration agreement established in 2018 and renewed in 2023, in the frame of art.15 of the italian Law 241/1990.

EISAC.it has been established as a resulting initiative of the european Association 2E!SAC (Association for improving vital infrastructure resilience in Europe).

Research

CIPCast Platform

ENEA and INGV researchers, through the EISAC.it programme, have been working to set up a complex technological platform including different interoperable tools that enablle the monitoring, the analysis and the risk assessment of Critical Infrastructures (CI).
This technological platform, referred to as CIPCast (Critical Infrastructure Protection risk analysis and foreCAST) gathers and orchestrates different vertical tools and through a powerful, yet user-friendly WebGIS interface, allow end-users to query databases and to run simulation for supporting "what-if" analysis and decision making processes.
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Applications

CIPCast: an innovative Decision Support System (DSS) and interoperable platform for the operational 24/7 monitoring of Critical Infrastrutures (CI) and for the assessment of physical and functional impacts induced by adverse events on CI

CIPCast-OP

CIPCast-OP is the operational version of CIPCast. CIPCast-OP has the functions of a Decision Support System allowing 24/7 operational risk analysis through the spatial overlay of hazard maps (such as seismic, flood, landslide etc.), weather forecasts, sensor data, and geospatial information about infrastructures and built environment. CIPCast-OP supports the definition of event scenarios, by combining the hazard assessment with CI exposure and specific vulnerability to critical events, estimating induced damages and impacts.

CIPCast-ES

CIPCast-ES estimates earthquake-induced damages and impacts in natural and built areas. CIPCast-ES simulates the ground shaking produced by an earthquake event, estimating the possible induced damages to buildings and CI components as well as the resulting functional impacts (e.g. power and water outages, road bloackages, etc). CIPCast-ES can be run in "what-if" mode to support the effective planning of emergency and contingency management actions as well as to support the definition of risk mitigation policies.

RecSIM

RecSIM allow assessing possible functional impacts on the electrical distribution system of urban areas, accounting also for the possible functional dependencies with other CI, such as the telecommunication and road networks. RecSIM reproduces the expected dynamic of a service outage following the failure of components of the electrical network and the actions performed at Control Room level to restore the service.

CIPCast-DB

CIPCast-DB is the GeoDatabase on which rely the CIPCast platform. It allows the management and storing of large quantities of geospatial data, coming from GIS processing or from external sources (e.g., Open Data, field sensor data, third party or distributed repositories, etc.). The data are stored locally or in different remote servers, accessible through services compliant with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards, namely, Web Feature Service (WFS), Web Coverage Service (WCS), and Web Map Service (WMS).