A heterogeneous sensor network for the protection of critical infrastructure

Abstract

Protection of critical buildings, plants, and infrastructures against physical and cyber attacks is attracting more and more attention as governments and citizens become more aware of the problems that would arise if such facilities were attacked. Nonetheless, current security systems are not sufficient to guarantee an adequate level of protection. The goal of this paper is to propose a new concept of security system relying on multiple sensor technologies (e.g., radar, RFID, EO/IR cameras) for the protection of critical infrastructures against both physical and cyber attacks and for the intelligent reconfiguration of the infrastructure telecommunication network in the case of attack, so as to permit communication and operability continuity also during and right after the attack.