Living Lab Operation Ljubljana was officially launched as part of the PRECINCT project
The PRECINCT project is a two-year project in which 40 international organizations participate and is financed by the European Commission. The project foresees 4 Living Labs (LL) and one of them was planned in Ljubljana. LL Operation Ljubljana officially launched at the beginning of June, which is the ninth month (M9) of the project.
The goal of the PRECINCT project is to develop a platform for connecting different stakeholders of interdependent critical infrastructures (CI) and emergency services, and to look at possible cascading effects in the event of various unforeseen security events or planned disasters. The Institute for Corporate Security Studies (ICS Ljubljana) is the coordinator of the Slovenian part of the consortium.
The Ljubljana Living Lab (LL1) is a Multi-domain LL involving national rail and City bus transport, Electricity (DSO), Telecommunication infrastructure) and Municipality of Ljubljana stakeholders. The Thematic focus is a Multi-CI Coordination Center for major city Transport Hub.
Slovenian stakeholders:
- Slovenian National Railway Company (SZ) supported by the Traffic Institute (PI),
- Telekom Slovenije (TS),
- Elektro Ljubljana (EL),
- Municipality of Ljubljana (MOL), coordinated by City of Ljubljana’s Municipality Police,
- City of Ljubljana bus transport operator (LPP) and
- Institute for Corporate Security Studies (ICS).
International stakeholders - technical partners:
- Engineering Ingegneria Informatica (ENG),
- Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT),
- Research Driven Solutions (RDS),
- University College Dublin (UCD),
- Nurogames (NURO).
In LL1 we try to deploy and test the PRECINCT approach and ‘platform’ establishing collaboration between four interconnected critical infrastructures (national rail and city bus transport, Electricity Distribution System Operator (DSO) and telecommunication infrastructure) and the Municipality Police with connection to other city first responder services and public infrastructure. In the near future, the four CIs will connect closer in a new modern passenger and transport mobility hub (https://www.ljubljana.si/sl/moja-ljubljana/ljubljana-zate/projekti-mol/potniski-center-ljubljana/).
LL1 will utilize the PRECINCT Reference Framework models early on, where we establish dependencies between CIs and used the Serious Games approach to identify new vulnerabilities from cascading effects. This help to specify new decision-making processes between different CI operators which are interconnected (locational and with interdependent processes) at the location of the main mobility hub in centre of Ljubljana.
For this purpose, a Coordination Centre will be set up using the PRECINCT Cross-Facility collaborative Security and Resilience management Infrastructure to allow data sharing amongst all involved stakeholders and initially decision-making based on existing tools. The speed and accuracy of response is directly proportional to the timeliness of shared situational awareness, which is the priority of any effective Coordination Centre. To achieve this, the Digital Twin will be installed and tested.
You can read more about the results of the project on this website https://www.precinct.info/en/.