A vigilant Concept for Smart Emergency Supply of Critical Infrastructure

Abstract:
In catastrophic incidents, taking critical infrastructure and equipment back into operation as quickly as possible gets more and more important. The electrical supply of information and communication technology (ICT), services of health, emergency and rescue belong to potential critical infrastructure. During outages electrical energy can be provid-ed by standby power devices such as batteries or emergency generators. However, these devices are usually limited in supply duration, are stationary or difficult to transport in cases of emergency. Thus flexible and dynamic solutions are clearly required. Such cases are considered in the project "Smart Emergency" (funded by the climate and energy fund of the Austrian government).