1. ICT and Civil ProtectionSenigallia, 18-19 June 2007 A Service-Oriented Middleware for EU Civil Protection cooperation Regione Marche

2. ICT and Civil ProtectionSenigallia, 18-19 June 2007 Contents The Regione Marche Civil Protection Dept. ICT Needs in EU Civil Protection A Service-Oriented Middleware for ICT integration The REIS scenario The Storm Tracking DSS scenario Conclusions

3. ICT and Civil ProtectionSenigallia, 18-19 June 2007 Security and Civil Protection Integrated Policies Department (SCPD) Marche Region SCPD carries out planning, prevision and prevention activities related to risks. In emergency situations it coordinates interventions and defines how the Regional Government has to attend the emergency

4. ICT and Civil ProtectionSenigallia, 18-19 June 2007 SCPD Organization Chart

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7. ICT and Civil ProtectionSenigallia, 18-19 June 2007 ICT Needs in EU Civil Protection Main limitations for EU civil protection collaboration: lack for knowledge sharing systems heterogeneous and inelastic organizations proprietary technologies These ICT issues cannot be solved enforcing the adoption of a unique standard solution It is a hard goal to reach also among organizations within a countries A EU civil protection ICT interoperability platform must be developed independently by single countries interoperability platforms

8. ICT and Civil ProtectionSenigallia, 18-19 June 2007 A inter-national ICT system among civil protection organizations can save thousand of lives e.g., communications in the Asian tsunami of 2004 Despite using a vertical approach to solve the interoperability problem our proposal is to: use a distributed ICT middleware to realize a generalized support for interoperability realize opportunistic and dynamical Virtual Organizations (VO’s) rather than strong connected organizations ICT Needs in EU Civil Protection

9. Interoperability in current EU Civil Protection Organizations Service link Organization Legend

10. Interoperability using a Service-Oriented Middleware

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12. ICT and Civil ProtectionSenigallia, 18-19 June 2007 How the middleware can be realized? We exploit the Web Service technology to realize such a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Services, database, systems and instruments can be wrapped by this general and standard framework The Internet is no more used as a Web of information but as a network of open services

13. ICT and Civil ProtectionSenigallia, 18-19 June 2007 SOA

14. ICT and Civil ProtectionSenigallia, 18-19 June 2007 Basic services that can be developed: DataService: a set of services to connect database resources among organizations e.g., meteorological data, DSS data etc. WharehousingService: a set of services to share datawarehouse e.g., GIS maps, photos, documents etc. ResourceService: a set of services to share and optimize usage of resources e.g. computational power Grids, clusters, storage etc. VirtualOrganizationService: a set of services to allow virtual collaboration among organizations e.g. Videoconference systems, Groupware tools, Collaborative work and project management systems etc. How the middleware can be realized?

15. ICT and Civil ProtectionSenigallia, 18-19 June 2007 Project Proposals The middleware we present so far it is not a project proposal per se It is an infrastructure where more focused projects for Civil Protection can be proposed We present two usage scenarios for the middleware in order to define two project proposals: A knowledge management system (REIS) A Decision Support System (DSS) for Storm Tracking

16. ICT and Civil ProtectionSenigallia, 18-19 June 2007 REIS The Risk Event Information System (REIS) is a interactive data warehouse employed to improve the knowledge about risks and to refine risk management practices It is currently used by the Marche Region in order to acquire the “implicit knowledge” about risks in the territory It reduces administrative practices for “emergency status declaration” It helps to speed-up resources distribution It allows to obtain continuously updated reports about events

17. ICT and Civil ProtectionSenigallia, 18-19 June 2007 REIS proposal REIS could be easily adopted by the partners organizations by means of the service-oriented middleware support A EU-REIS will imply a share of best practices, knowledge and experiences beside a share of technologies Data about risks acquired by means of REIS can also be useful for other goals For instance, we are developing a new version of REIS that uses events data in order to study how climate changes affect meteohydrogeological hazards at local scale

18. ICT and Civil ProtectionSenigallia, 18-19 June 2007 Storm Tracking DSS Decision Support System (DSS) and Expert Systems can be employed in order to realize a storm tracking system The service-oriented middleware in this case has a fundamental role in data transfer in meteohydrological sensor sharing in computational power increasing

19. ICT and Civil ProtectionSenigallia, 18-19 June 2007 Why is this middleware strategic? It is a flexible system that can be tuned for specific call for proposal It is aimed to realizes a concrete instrument that can be used in effective European emergencies It can be the premise for standard ICT practices for civil protection interoperability in Europe Once it is defined, we can (re)use it to implement other projects that focused in various specific fields

20. ICT and Civil ProtectionSenigallia, 18-19 June 2007 Example of other usage scenarios Other project that can be realized relying on the proposed middleware may involve: Climate change studies Wide areas pollution monitoring Epidemiological simulations Earthquakes simulations GIS related projects (e.g., vehicle tacking) …

21. ICT and Civil ProtectionSenigallia, 18-19 June 2007 Conclusions The areas of interest that we can address with the proposed middleware are various: Climatology Meteorology Civil Protection Pollution Grid systems Hydrology

22. ICT and Civil ProtectionSenigallia, 18-19 June 2007 Conclusions Rather to propose a specific project or technology today we have proposed an “open project” The service-oriented middleware and the projects we propose can be refined and integrated with partner experiences The realization of the middleware in a future project will allow to realize a working infrastructure that connect partner organizations Other ideas and EU projects can be developed starting from such a connection infrastructure