Addressing the security challenges posed by Cyber-Physical Smart Water Systems

Background

The issues that the water distribution systems is experiencing such as climate change, rapid urbanisation and ageing infrastructure, urge the integration of on-line systems for continuous monitoring to improve investments, operating efficiencies and environmental sustainability. Digital transformation in the water supply sector is on-going. Smart grids are the new paradigm, which rely on the integration and interaction of the power network infrastructure (physical systems) and the ICT network (cyber system). Cyber-Physical- System (CPS) platforms are the enabler of this integration whereby sensing, computation, control, networking and analytics are orchestrated to interact with the physical world.

Challenges

• engineering challenges related to the integration of physical and computational elements (integration and interoperability)
• security and privacy issues of emerging smart CPS to fulfil stringent data protection regulations

Goals

• addressing operation goals along with security goals

Solution

• SEcube™ is a System-on-Chip focused on security in support of Cyber-physical Systems for the management and protection of data to preserve ownership rights as well as beneficial use of data