Sa4CPS

Sa4CPS project focuses on the R&D of the secure situation awareness concept (Sa4CPS concept) for critical cyber-physical systems with a particular focus on ports. The targeted Sa4CPS concept will apply AI to enhance the perception, comprehension, projection, decision and actions, and consider especially trust and security of people, autonomous systems and digital twins of companies, so that the distributed situational awareness process is operating in trustworthy manner in critical multiple stakeholder systems. Port environments typically contain multiple operators, their service systems, autonomous devices and people from different sectors such ,e.g., logistics, energy, mobility and security. The challenge is that all these need to be aware about the situation in secure manner in their own real-time environment. In addition, unexpected events, such as accidents and physical or virtual attacks, may compromize the resilience of the system and cause risks for the use of critical resources, privacy sensitive information, security, safety and economics. The objective of the Sa4CPS project is to contribute towards solving these challenges in the selected 8 use cases by developing technical enabling solutions for secure situation awareness concept, and evaluating the resulting solutions in simulations, relevant combinations and/or in critical port environment. The technical enabling solutions are related to the spesific parts of the situational awareness process, e.g., to perception, comprehension, projection, decision, control, actuation, digital trust, security, privacy and practical solutions of the use cases. The innovative solutions of the use cases will boost increase of the company revenues in their own business areas. In addition, these solutions are envisioned to improve secure situation awareness in critical port area for example so that the capabilities of people, autonomous devices and company service systems to operate resiliently in unexpected situations will improve. For exploitation, each use-case will focus on specific physical devices, related CPS services and digital twins within targeted business ecosystems. Some will concern a single sector, but their contributions to the overall Sa4CPS concept will create connections for cross-use-case applicability. Application in the port environment will enable a critical area to enhance trust and security by Building autonomous resilience into the system, all while lowering the risks of various attacks and ensuring that the port can recover from incidents. The critical port area of Oulu, Finland, can serve as a potential pilot environment for the conceptual validation of secure situation awareness for operations. The Project is then expected to launch a variety of products and services that enable the Sa4CPS concept and that drive revenue growth and competitiveness for partners in the logistics, mobility, energy and security-related markets. By facilitating digital trust and value transactions for all stakeholders in a transparent manner, Sa4CPS will help create a reliable ecosystem for secure situational awareness and contribute to the establishment of a smart, interoperable and sustainable society.