CIPCast: ENEA software to manage risks from weather events … – Journal of Civil Protection

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The increasingly frequent and intense weather events cause different and prolonged blackouts: to preserve the power grid failures or interruptions, ENEA has designed a software called CIPCast, can process and provide risk forecasts for energy and water infrastructure in the event of storms, floods and landslides

An innovative software that allows you to process and provide risk forecasts for energy and water infrastructure in the case of particularly intense weather events (storms, floods and landslides): it is CIPCast , a project developed by the Laboratory Analysis and Critical Infrastructure Protection ENEA and tested in the control room of Acea Distribuzione in Rome. Two versions developed at application layer: a to calculate the impact of rainfall on the electricity distribution networks, and another, specific for the city of Rome, to better manage the events related to the Jubilee in every single area of ​​the Capital.
” once the data acquired from sensors and weather forecasts – says Vittorio Rosato , head of the Laboratory Analysis and Critical Infrastructure Protection ENEA – the application processes the risk scenarios , identifies the elements infrastructure in danger , estimated the ‘ iMPACT services and quantifies the effects that their possible disruption could produce on citizens and productive system. To have these information- continues Rosato -allows the company not only electricity, but also to those who administer the city and takes care of his safety manage crisis situations and establish an effective means for rapid interventions. “
Between 2010 and the early months of 2015 in Italy were 43 days of power outages due to bad weather: p or reserve the power grid any failure or disruption is a priority for avoid consequences for the population and the so-called domino effect , or an extended blackout of other critical infrastructures that provide essential services such as drinking water, waste disposal, rail traffic and telecommunications. then born from the need to face increasingly frequent weather events, intense and characterized by greater dangers in an urban setting, the software CIPCast integrates data geospatial, weather up to 1 hour (nowcasting) and a short-medium term with the hydro-geological information and recurrence of earthquakes and other major natural events.

“CipCast – explains ENEA – it is part of the Rome project (Resilience enhancement of Metropolitan Areas) funded by the Ministry of Education, University and Research. and take ‘inspiration’ from technologies developed in the European project CIPRNet (Critical Infrastructure Preparedness and Resilience Research Network) for the Risk Analysis of European Critical Infrastructure Competence Centers that will provide 24 hours 24 risk analysis infrastructure critical with a prediction from a few hours up to a few days. The system will give directions to the Civil Protection and Local Authorities for strategies and actions to be put in place to reduce the impact of weather events and effectively restore services. The study, therefore, new technological responses to increase the response capacity of cities to crises, thus improving its resilience. “

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(source : ENEA)

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