VALKYRIES: Harmonization and Pre-Standardization of Equipment, Training and Tactical Coordinated procedures for First Aid Vehicles deployment on European multi-victim Disasters.

Description of the Project

VALKYRIES is a European project of the Horizon 2020 program in which Indra is a leader. The primary objective of the VALKYRIES project is the harmonization of nomenclature, processes, equipment and operations on a new generation technological base such as 5G communications, IA-based predictive Big Data analysis, autonomous vehicles, among others, which will assist cross-sectoral emergency teams (firefighters, ambulances, police, military units, etc.) in cross-border situations of natural or man-made catastrophes, and which lead to highly complex operational scenarios with multiple victims to attend.

A methodology for monitoring and analysis of standardization and certification harmonization needs throughout the project lifecycle will be defined and implemented, allowing early identification of issues related to the conceptualization, design, implementation, integration and deployment of EU disaster resilience support tools. This will follow a comprehensive strategy of consultation with the different stakeholders expected to be active in each phase of capacity building, from suppliers to end-users.

H2020-VALKYRIES proposes both the design and development of a modular, interoperable, scalable and secure platform (SIGRUN) that will allow integration between legacy solutions and new technologies.

The platform will be able to deploy services and dynamically adapt its behavior as required by the emergency. At the end of the project (2023), a total of four cross-border and cross-sectoral demonstration scenarios will be developed that will allow validating the operation and validity of the proposed solutions. All of them have in common that, when a catastrophe of these characteristics occurs and without the solution, the emergency response teams are deployed without a precise vision of the operating environment. These cases will be complementary, addressing the following topics:

• Forest fire on the border between Spain and Portugal;
• Accident in a factory with tons of flammable materials and spills of toxic lead on the border between Slovakia and Austria;;
• Earthquake on the border between Bulgaria and Greece;
• Naval accident in international waters between Norway, the Netherlands and Denmark

Industrial Partner

Indra´s Rol

Indra is the VALKYRIES Project Coordinator and leads WP1 "Project Management". Indra actively participates in the VALKYRIES project incorporating all its experience in the design of standardization and harmonization principles, providing its own solutions in simulation, decision making, mission planning, identification and management of risks that serve as a starting point in the research of the state of the art solutions for first responders; Indra will also provide the consortium with a Testbed in which to develop the kinetic part of the demonstrators. Indra will actively disseminate the results of the project and will participate in different national and international fairs, forums, exhibitions and events

Universities and Technology Centers

Technologies used

VALKYRIES aims to provide a harmonization and standardization framework able to support given technological solutions, developed and implemented in real use cases for first responders, considering a cross-border, cross-sector and cross-hierarchical approach, with the following capabilities thanks to current digitalization/virtualization technologies (including AI-based ones) applicable to first responder performances:

1. utilization of all available equipment in disaster situations for successful performance, with special emphasis on portable health support devices to monitor and analyze both patients and emergency responders;
2. enabling the establishment of trusted communications to share operational information in a multi-domain stakeholder environment;
3. the creation of a mobile C&C to implement both operational decision making and action planning in a coordinated manner;
4. enabling the deployment of connected and autonomous driving enablers to support disaster response performance;

Additional Information

This Project, with reference nº 101020676, has been co-financed by the European Commission within the Program Horizon 2020 in the H2020-SU-SEC-2020 call for proposals.