Italy will be the first country in Europe to have a integrated risk monitoring system of critical infrastructures, thanks to an agreement between ENEA, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) e Ministry of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility (MIMS). This is what is foreseen in the memorandum of understanding signed today by the director general for Digitisation, Information and Statistical Systems of MIMS, Mario Nobile, by the president of ENEA, Gilberto Dialuce and by the president of INGV, Carlo Doglioni. The goal is to deploy the most advanced technologies to strengthen the safety of our country's roads and railways and guarantee the continuity of national infrastructures and transport, mobility and logistics services in the event of fires and extreme natural events, such as earthquakes and floods, in line with the international programme EISAC.it (European Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Centre), which ENEA and INGV are implementing in our country.
As part of the agreement with MIMS, ENEA and INGV will work closely with ANAS e RFI and with private operators under concession, to improve the level of knowledge and control of public works and road and railway networks and build up a unique wealth of information that will be made available to infrastructure managers to prevent accidents and damage from usury.
Il Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility, Enrico Giovannini, expressed satisfaction with the signing of the memorandum of understanding. “Innovation and digitization are valid allies to create an infrastructure system that is increasingly secure”, says the Minister. “In this case we are talking not only about traditional infrastructures, but about a real info-structure that will allow, also through data – adds the Minister – to continue on the path of resilience, not only with respect to extreme natural events, but also with a view to mitigating and adapting to climate change, on which the Ministry has paid great attention in recent months".
“This agreement will make it possible to further strengthen the collaborations underway between the signatories of the protocol in a strategic area of action, starting with the transport system, in support of the energy transition. ENEA already develops models and systems for analyzing and monitoring critical infrastructures (electricity, water and gas, road and railway mobility, telecommunications), as well as systems and tools for protection against natural events for emergency management and risk analysis. It also carries out the analysis of infrastructure-territory dependencies and between the infrastructures themselves, developing decision support systems, simulation models of adverse events, propagation of faults and relative effective countermeasures to reduce their impact and efficient management of crisis" underlines the President of ENEA, Gilberto Dialuce.
“INGV's institutional mandate is to assist the Government in monitoring natural risks, in particular seismic, volcanic and tsunami risks. The quantification of the natural hazard in the areas where critical infrastructures are located and the 24-hour surveillance of these areas will help to evaluate all the actions that can be taken with ENEA and MIMS in the interest of public safety" reiterates the President of INGV, Carlo Doglioni.
Among the most relevant points of the memorandum of understanding, support for the management and use of theNational Registry of Public Works (AINOP), through the development of interactive digital models of infrastructures, accompanied by seismic, hydraulic, hydrogeological and meteorological data. The Registry will be at the heart of the new safety management system both as the 'recipient' of the information that will be acquired on the works, and as a 'supplier' of data to support monitoring and operational risk forecasting activities. In this context, ENEA will make the decision support platform available CIP Cast, an advanced technological tool capable of providing 'integrated' risk forecasts, by connecting information relating to mobility and transport infrastructures with those of electricity and telecommunications networks.
“This will be the first case in Europe in which there will be an integrated tool at national level capable of monitoring the risk of all the country's critical infrastructures. Infrastructure is now a totally interconnected system for which it has become necessary to prepare 'systemic protection' and no longer 'vertical' measures. Exactly what we want to start preparing for the country, starting with the mobility system", says the Professor Fabio Pistella, which will have the task of coordinating the activities of ENEA and INGV for the implementation of the Protocol and for the realization of the EISAC.it programme.
As part of the agreement with MIMS, ENEA and INGV will work closely with ANAS e RFI and with private operators under concession, to improve the level of knowledge and control of public works and road and railway networks and build up a unique wealth of information that will be made available to infrastructure managers to prevent accidents and damage from usury.
Il Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility, Enrico Giovannini, expressed satisfaction with the signing of the memorandum of understanding. “Innovation and digitization are valid allies to create an infrastructure system that is increasingly secure”, says the Minister. “In this case we are talking not only about traditional infrastructures, but about a real info-structure that will allow, also through data – adds the Minister – to continue on the path of resilience, not only with respect to extreme natural events, but also with a view to mitigating and adapting to climate change, on which the Ministry has paid great attention in recent months".
“This agreement will make it possible to further strengthen the collaborations underway between the signatories of the protocol in a strategic area of action, starting with the transport system, in support of the energy transition. ENEA already develops models and systems for analyzing and monitoring critical infrastructures (electricity, water and gas, road and railway mobility, telecommunications), as well as systems and tools for protection against natural events for emergency management and risk analysis. It also carries out the analysis of infrastructure-territory dependencies and between the infrastructures themselves, developing decision support systems, simulation models of adverse events, propagation of faults and relative effective countermeasures to reduce their impact and efficient management of crisis" underlines the President of ENEA, Gilberto Dialuce.
“INGV's institutional mandate is to assist the Government in monitoring natural risks, in particular seismic, volcanic and tsunami risks. The quantification of the natural hazard in the areas where critical infrastructures are located and the 24-hour surveillance of these areas will help to evaluate all the actions that can be taken with ENEA and MIMS in the interest of public safety" reiterates the President of INGV, Carlo Doglioni.
Among the most relevant points of the memorandum of understanding, support for the management and use of theNational Registry of Public Works (AINOP), through the development of interactive digital models of infrastructures, accompanied by seismic, hydraulic, hydrogeological and meteorological data. The Registry will be at the heart of the new safety management system both as the 'recipient' of the information that will be acquired on the works, and as a 'supplier' of data to support monitoring and operational risk forecasting activities. In this context, ENEA will make the decision support platform available CIP Cast, an advanced technological tool capable of providing 'integrated' risk forecasts, by connecting information relating to mobility and transport infrastructures with those of electricity and telecommunications networks.
“This will be the first case in Europe in which there will be an integrated tool at national level capable of monitoring the risk of all the country's critical infrastructures. Infrastructure is now a totally interconnected system for which it has become necessary to prepare 'systemic protection' and no longer 'vertical' measures. Exactly what we want to start preparing for the country, starting with the mobility system", says the Professor Fabio Pistella, which will have the task of coordinating the activities of ENEA and INGV for the implementation of the Protocol and for the realization of the EISAC.it programme.
