Smart emergency — New issues of emergency supply systems for critical infrastructure

In catastrophic incidents, taking critical infrastructure and equipment back into operation as quickly as possible becomes more and more important. The energy supply of information and communication technology (ICT), services of health, emergency and rescue belong to potential critical infrastructure from an electrical engineering perspective. During outages electrical energy can be provided by standby power devices such as batteries or emergency generators. However, these devices are usually limited in supply duration, and 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), we are currently working on.