RESY - Resilient systems for civil protection

A cross-cluster project as part of the Bavaria 2025 cluster offensive

A joint project of BAIOSPHERE AGENCY/ Bayerische KI-Agentur, Strategische Partnerschaft Sensorik e.V. and Bayern Innovativ GmbH.

Further information on the Bavarian Cluster Initiative

Problem definition

Climate change, pandemics, geopolitical crises - these and other current challenges demonstrate the need for resilient systems. Among other things, the German Association of Cities is calling for consistent digitalization in order to be able to create comprehensive situation reports for civil protection. Many technologies for implementing digital, data-driven and sensor-based systems in civil protection are already available, e.g. LPWAN technologies or the Copernicus Emergency Management System. Digital twins also promise to be helpful tools in this area.
However, the challenges involved in implementation are manifold: many different solutions are on offer and a wide variety of players are involved. There is often still a lack of knowledge about digitalization standards, possibilities for joint data collection and shared data access as well as effective protection against cyberattacks. This and the lack of a common digital infrastructure and common standards make effective cross-organizational collaboration difficult.

Objective

The aim of the cross-cluster project is to use Bavaria-wide infrastructure approaches such as the Smart District Data Infrastructure (SDDI) and a specific pilot project to develop a metadata catalog and make it usable as a blueprint for municipalities, regions and projects. This is to be done with particular attention to the resilience of the digital systems used (hardware and sensor systems, interfaces, data platforms, data models): Robust wireless communication, energy self-sufficiency and cyber security must be guaranteed. Through this and by bringing together municipalities, authorities and organizations with security tasks (BOS) and technology providers from the fields of AI and sensor technology, development potential and new business models are to be identified.

RESY approach

The project approach initially involves surveying the needs of Bavarian local authorities in order to identify the various system requirements and to compare these with the existing offerings (using technology scouting). Development potential is to be tapped from the results. A catalog of requirements will then be drawn up with a pilot municipality and a specific scenario, and the implementation phase will begin with implementation partners from the technology sector. The pilot project will make the benefits of cooperation visible and provide other municipalities with an impetus for comparable projects. The resulting catalog of requirements will serve as a blueprint for scaling as required.