Advanced Cyber and Physical Situation Awareness in Urban Smart Spaces

The ever-growing adoption of big data technologies, smart sensing, data science and artificial intelligence is enabling the development of new intelligent urban spaces with real-time monitoring and advanced cyber-physical situational awareness capabilities. In the S4AllCities international research project, the advancement of cyber-physical situational awareness will be experimented for achieving safer smart city spaces in Europe and beyond. The deployment of digital twins will lead to understanding real-time situation awareness and risks of potential physical and/or cyber-attacks on urban critical infrastructure specifically. The critical extraction of knowledge using digital twins, which ingest, process and fuse observation data and information, prior to machine reasoning is performed in S4AllCities. In this paper, a cyber behavior detection module, which identifies unusualness in cyber traffic networks is described. Also, a physical behaviour detection module is introduced. The two modules function within the so-called Malicious Attacks Information Detection System (MAIDS) digital twin.