IIIT-A gets energy infra security project
PRAYAGRAJ: Experts of Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad (IIIT-A) along with other top technical brains from the country will join hands with specialists of Norway to find out better ways for ensuring cyber-physical security of energy infrastructure of smart cities.
The IIIT-A has been selected for this project named ‘cyberphysical security in energy infrastructure of smart cities (CPSEC)’ as part of ‘Indo-Norway Collaboration Project under ICT’ being jointly implemented by governments of India and Norway, said Prof OP Vyas, principal investigator of the initiative at IIIT-A, on Thursday.
He said for this an agreement has been penned by IIIT-A experts with their counterparts of Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.
He said the department of science and technology, New Delhi had sanctioned the project on Oct 4, 2018 under the international call in which out of 50 submissions only five proposals were approved after joint evaluation by RCN-Norway (Research Council of Norway) and DST-In- dia (Ministry of Science-Technology).
“Apart from IIIT-A, other selected institutions are IITBombay, IIT-Delhi, IISc-Bangalore and C-RACE (Center for Research in Automation and Control Engineering). Collaboration between Indian (IIIT-A and IIT Kanpur) and Norway involves 4 principal investigators and co-principal investigators from India and 3 from Norway, who along with students and scholars will keep visiting each other for academic cooperation. Consortium agreement has been signed involving all partner institutions,” he said.
Norway team is headed by Prof Sokratis Katsikas of NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology).
Prof Katsikas, who arrived at IIIT-A on Wednesday, held meetings and technical sessions with IIIT-A experts.
A colloquium on business informatics will be organised for proposing academic activities in this emerging field on December 14.
The session will have other experts in the field of fintech (financial-technologies), insurance and risk analytics along with information security and secured payment gateways .