Tipologia progetto: Europeo – Call H2020-SU-INFRA-2018-2019-2020 Topic: SU-INFRA02-2019
Titolo: IMPETUS - Intelligent Management of Processes, Ethics and Technology for Urban Safety
Ruolo CINI: Partner
Partner:

• SINTEF
• INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM
• UNIVERSITE DE NIMES
• CINI
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA
• BIOTEHNOLOOGIA JA MEDITSIINI ETTEVOTLUSE ARENDAMISE SA
• SOFTWARE IMAGINATION & VISION SRL
• THALES NEDERLAND BV
• CINEDIT VA GMBH
• Insikt Intelligence S.L.
• SIXGILL LTD
• SXM CYBER LTD
• COMUNE DI PADOVA
• OSLO KOMMUNE
• INSTITUT ZA SIGURNOSNE POLITIKE
• THE INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SOCIETY AISBL
• UNISMART PADOVA ENTERPRISE SRL

Abstract
An interconnected city grid of sensors, such as of cameras or environmental sensors, offers a wealth of
actionable Big Data. In addition to better managing traffic and public transit, as well as controlling pollution,
they can be used for enhanced policing, crowd control, and even public sentiment monitoring. However,
such smart systems increase the risk of unethical use of personal data, and increase the attack surface of a
city as multiple interconnected IT systems control key infrastructures such as transport, energy, water
distribution, etc. To address the growing security and ethical threats on smart cities, the project will
develop an integrated toolkit that covers the complete physical and cybersecurity value chain (detection,
simulation & analysis, intervention). The project will enhance the resilience of cities in the face of security
events in public spaces, by addressing three main aspects of urban security in smart cities:
• Technologies: integrating and developing the tools and processes underlying the capacity of cities to
manage bothphysical security and Cybersecurity, leveraging the power of IoT, Artificial Intelligence and Big
Data analysis

• Ethics: ensuring smart city capabilities are developed for the benefit of society, balancing potentially
conflicting needs to collect, transform and share large amounts of data with the protection of data privacy
• Processes: delivering a multi-tenant solution fully aligned with the operational needs of multiple city
stakeholders (e.g. police, first responders, municipalities) supported by a framework gathering deployment
guidelines and best practices
The consortium includes 17 partners from 11 different EU Member States and Associated Countries,
including 2 local government authorities (City of Padova and City of Oslo) that will lead the field trial
implementations. The project will also be supported by a Community of Safe and Secure Cities (COSSEC)
gathering other cities to provide feedback.

Responsabile CINI: Prof. Donato Malerba 

Data Inizio-Fine: 01/09/2020 – 31/08/2022 

Sito web del progetto: http://www.impetus-project.eu/