Asset & Risk Management for Critical Infrastructures

Simulating Critical Infrastructures
SIM-CI
Corporate Deck | June 2016
1COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL
COPYRIGHT SIM-CI.COM ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

“The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in
Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism
of life on the Earth — can bring to a standstill the aerial
traffic over an entire continent is a reminder of how,
with all its power to transform nature, humankind
remains just another species on the planet Earth.”
- Slavoj Žižek, philosopher
COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL

Critical Infrastructure systems are the lifelines of
our safety and prosperity, nerve systems
facilitating communication, transportation, trade
and financial transactions. Our daily lives depend
heavily on CI networks as the building blocks of
our economies. We have to understand how
critical infrastructures interact, where and why
their operations and security hang upon each
other, and what risks and interdependencies
have to be taken into account.
Only then can we create resilient networks and
make Critical Infrastructures future proof.
Resilient by design.
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So how do we secure our networks and key
assets in times of hyper connectivity, cyber
crimes, population growth, climate changes
and other external threats? By having a 360°
view on Critical Infrastructures, taking into
account network and asset interdepencies, the
ability to run various near-real time simulation
scenarios, that gives you the tools to fortify
your networks. To build resilient networks,
integrated asset management is key.
SIM-CI provides the tooling and key expertise
for interdependent asset & risk management,
operations and maintenance.
SMART SOLUTION TO MAKE CRITICAL
INFRASTRUCTURES FUTURE PROOF

climate change
distributed
energy sources
cyber attacks
In Europe:
(NL) 35.000 annual adverse excavation
events resulting in direct costs of over € 25
M . (Rijksoverheid.nl)
(UK) “hotspot” related losses of £ 750 K per
day, with total losses estimated at £ 2 M per
day, or £ 730 M annualised. (Cambridge
University Study, 2014)
Extrapolated to the EU, these metrics
aggregate to hundreds of thousands of
annual events with associated cost exposure
hyper connected
smart grids
urbanisation
CURRENT SITUATION
CO2
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Trillions of Euros invested globally in legacy CIs (Critical Infrastructures) are under increasing
pressure from a rapidly changing, dynamic and complex environment due to:

SIM-CI
VISION, MISSION & OBJECTIVES
MISSION
To provide the tooling for
interdependent asset & risk
management, operations
and maintenance workflows
VISION
Interdependent Critical
Infrastructures require
interdependent network
management as opposed to
network management in silos
OBJECTIVES
By enabling integral network
management, physical and
economic damage resulting from
interdependencies can be
mitigated & thus delivers the
rationale for smart investments
into resilient CIs 5COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL

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Plans to protect air
and water,
wilderness and
wildlife are in fact
plans to protect
man.
- Stewart Udall

A MODULAR AND SCALABLE PLATFORM

SIM-CI is a product suite spanning from
strategic focus to operation. From Asset
Management to Workflow Management.
By getting a total overview of yours as well as
3rd party CI’s you can not only maintain your
CI but forecast weak spots and scenarios,
avoiding actualised crisis as well identify risk
responses.
A 360 PRODUCT SUITE

SIM-CI PRODUCT SUITE
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PRODUCT SUITE
OPERATIONS
INTEGRATED SAFETY & AUDITING
MOBILE APPLICATION FOR
WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT & ASSET
MONITORING
SECURE COMMUNICATOR (CROSS DEVICE)
SIMULATION OUTPUT | BLENDED REALITY USER EXPERIENCE | AR/3D VR / NOC VIRTUAL SUPPORT SOLUTION
SECURE ZONE FOR BIG DATA STORAGE & ANALYSIS
INTERDEPENDENCY MODELS
PRODUCT SUITE
ASSET MANAGEMENT
INTEGRATED ASSET MANAGEMENT
APPLICATION FOR
INTEGRATED RISK ANALYSIS & REPORTING
* Both suites are available in Freemium, Explorer, Corporate, Research and Enterprise/VAR editions

SOLUTIONS

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FROM ASSET MANAGEMENT
TO WEARABLES
ASSET MANAGEMENT & CI
SIMULATIONS
Provides foresight across scenarios,
spanning capital spending decisions
for CI maintenance, replacement
and design, to emergency and safety
contingency planning
NETWORK OPERATION CONTROL
(NOC) VIRTUAL SUPPORT
Provides immersive 3D and Virtual
Reality experiences to support Field
Engineers and Operations
departments
FIELD ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS
Combining mobile applications,
integrated workflow
management and personnel
safety features
WEARABLES
Wearable technology to
enhance safety of Field
Engineers – Fall Alerts*, Power
Field alerts, Medical Assistance
with automatic 112 call and
biometric measurements
SIM-CI PLATFORM
*Using internal sensors in mobile phones, this freemium app to be distributed in Google App Store can start saving lives today and will be a lead generator for all CI users worldwide.

Visualise, identify, build, repair, maintain,
communicate - safely and securely
WHOWHATWHYWHENWHEREVALUECREATION ASSET MANAGEMENT NOC FIELD ENGINEERING
ASSET & RISK MANAGEMENT SUITE
(public and private assets in their totality)
ASSET & RISK MANAGEMENT SUITE (own
assets and possibly external assets)
NETWORK OPERATION CENTRE SUITE
(own assets and possibly external assets)
FIELD SERVICE SUITE
Design, Build, Replace and Maintain Assets
Provide Local and National Risk
Assessments for mitigation and disaster
recovery
Design, Build, Replace and Maintain
Risk calculations and mitigations, disaster
recovery
Visualise, Identify, Support & Communicate
Cyclical, Event basedCyclical, Event-based Daily, based on incidents which requires
visual asset and risk management support
Daily, per work order
City & Country level Assets City to Country Level Assets Specific span, limited to location and
supported through smartphones and tablets
> Direct Operation Interaction
> Continuous Asset Information Updates
> Continuous Data Quality Improvement
> Field Engineer Efficiency
> Less Adverse Digging Accidents
> Field Service Safety
> Real-time Support
HOW
(modules)
Simulations Visualisation/VR, Design,
Build, Replace, Maintain,
Heat-mapping based on historical &
current data, Risk modelling (direct &
indirect) ($) Risk modeling is based on 1)
Inventory: article + price
2) Scenarios (Impact + likelihood)
Simulations Visualisation/VR, Design,
Build, Replace, Maintain,
Heat-mapping based on historical &
current data, Risk modelling (direct &
indirect) ($) Risk modeling is based on 1)
Inventory: article + price
2) Scenarios (Impact + likelihood)
Simulations, Visualisations/VR, Object
Identification, Risk Identification, Risk
Prevention, Risk Mitigation, Issue
Management
Simulations, Visualisations, AR, workflow
integration, safety module, Communication
Module, Geo fencer module, fall guard
module
City & Country Level CI Assets
> Asset Mapping & Planning
> Asset Auditing
> Asset Protection Stratategies
> Risk Analysis, Identification & Response
> Asset Mapping & Planning
> Asset Auditing
> Asset Protection Strategies
> Risk Analysis, Identification
& Response
SUPER USER/SYSTEM*
*Governmental, national/international
security agencies

ASSET & RISK MANAGEMENT

ASSET ANALYSIS AND RISK MANAGEMENT
Delivering custom applications capable of
processing petabytes of data using modular,
scalable cloud computing technologies without
compromising data security or consistency
Leveraging client data sets
integrated with external
data sets. Every solution
custom-tailored

3D & VR Network Operation Centre providing
multi-dimensional insight into assets on a local and
national scale
Asset visualisation and risk simulations for
optimized NOC Field Engineer support
3D & VR NOC integrated into the Workflow
Manager for seamless workflow support
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MULTI-USER 3D & VR NOC

USE CASE: INTERDEPENDENCY RISK ANALYSIS
An Asset Manager (AM) of a gas net operator
requests an analysis of all damage to the network in
2015. The SIM-CI database has all the data on
adverse events, registered by field engineers
through the Asset and Workflow Manager Suite
and a report reveals a large number of incidents
involving burst water pipes near gas pipes.
Further analysis reveals that most incidents involve
gas pipes with relative low pressure rate that are
situated near high pressure water mains. The AM
uses this insight to forecast similar damage in 2016.
Using the SIM-CI Risk Locator, the AM loads both
his network infrastructure data and, upon
automated approval, that of the third party water
network operator.
SIM-CI then generates a heat map of all low pressure
gas pipes close to the water mains, identifying more
than 100 risks further prioritized by the age and
maintenance history of the associated water pipes.
The AM now has 17 high risks locations matching
2015 data for adverse events causing the most
damage. The AM requests cost data for bracing a gas
pipe to improve its resistance to a bursting high
pressure water pipe in its proximity. The analysis
reveals that the cost for bracing 17 gas pipes is a
fraction of the forecast cost should they be damaged
by a water main rupture. As a result, the AM puts in
a budget plan for 2016 to brace the 17 gas pipes.

WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT
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FIELD ENGINEER SOLUTIONS
SIM-CI WORKFLOW MANAGER:
Streamlining workflows by
guiding engineers through the
job at hand and offering tools to
comply to safety and
administrative procedures
without any hassle.
ASSET INSPECTOR: Information
on all underground assets using
augmented reality. It allows to
see what’s under the ground and
determine the safety level to
proceed with an excavation.
SIM-CI SECURE COMMUNICATOR:
live assistance and consult co-
workers and experts on the spot
using secure video / audio / chat
communications.
GEO FENCER: location based
warnings to field engineers
FALL GUARD: determines speed
and impact of an accidental fall

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LOOKING GLASS FOR ALL CIs

USE CASE WORKFLOW MANAGER
The SIM-CI platform analyses all possible network owners in
the surrounding area of his work order and feeds the
Mobile Communicator with a list of associated contacts. He
calls the first contact, a Control Centre Employee. This
colleague instructs him to check a few cable ID numbers in
the medium voltage switchgear room associated with the
location. The Field Service Engineer (FSE) sends the cable
data via the chat, but the origin of the cable is still unclear.
The Asset Manager spots another switch room on his map
and suspects the cable could originate from here. He shares
the location with the FSE. The FSE can confirm the cable
originates from here. The FSE updates the geo fence, and
his colleagues cuts off the power to the second cable. The
FSE can start repairing the damaged cable. The lack of
information on the second cable is identified as a GIS data
issue; a log of the conversation with the data and footage is
sent to a GIS employee with a request to update the data.
After completing his work, the FSE uploads another image
to indicate a safe distance to the powerline. Once the FSE
has cleared the geo fence area, the control room can re-
activate the power on both cables. The FSE completes all
associated checklist items to close his order and start the
next work orderCOMPANY CONFIDENTIAL
Application: Workflow Manager including Asset
Inspector
A Field Service Engineer working for a DSO starts his
day. He uses his smartphone to log into the SIM-CI
Workflow Manager application. The Application opens
all work orders, lists the priorities and suggest the
best route for the day. The first job listed is to repair a
damaged 10kV electricity cable. He arrives on location
at the local power substation and uses his
smartphone to take a picture of the damaged cable,
which is automatically uploaded to the SIM-CI asset
management database (start audit trail). Next a
checklist is presented to the field worker for safety
regulations. Finally a geo-fence is created, so all users
of the SIM-CI application can see someone working on
a specific high voltage cable. The Field Service
Engineer turns off the power supply to the cable and
starts to excavate the cable. However he finds two
cables, one of which didn’t appear in the visual
representation of the data. He cannot identify the
origins, let alone the properties of the cable and
decide to call for help. He activates the Mobile
Communicator.

SAFETY, QUALITY & EFFICIENCY
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CREATING & DELIVERING VALUE
SAFETY
Increasing the safety of both operator workforces and the
public.
QUALITY
Increasing the data quality for CI assets, audit trails and risk
management. Every event becomes a data quality
improvement event.
EFFICIENCY
Integrating by design workflow, tools & applications,
ensuring that processes are lean and void of waste.
OPEX SAVINGS
Providing cost savings through a safer, more efficient and
quality driven CI environment.
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BUSINESS CASE
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CASE STUDY: At maturity level, SIM-CI
offers multi-million euro annual value
potential to Alliander
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ADDED VALUE KEY BUSINESS DRIVER *
IMPACT AT 1%
IMPROVEMENT
Diminish # (digging) accidents by:
- Reducing frequency
- Reducing impact / accident
Disruptions & Maintenance- : € 247 M
Electricity failure- : 21,9 min /
cust.
Registered accidents- : 112
€ 2,5 M
Optimize field operations workflow
Increase effective hours available
- Field engineers : 1.500 FTE
- Working hours available : 1,8 M (1.200 / FTE)
- OPEX at € 65,- / hour : € 117 M
€ 1,2 M
Enhance Asset & Risk Management
Improve capital allocation, reduce cost
exposure to CI cascading events
- CAPEX Network related : € 465 M
- Continuous updated assets insights (data quality)
- Improved Risk Mgt Analysis (Dev > Main > Repl.)
€ 4,6 M
Contribution to Company Strategy
Become a future proof DSO
- Digital DSO with focus on data quality
- Improving network reliability
- Safeguarding employees & assets (MVO)
Qualitative
* Source: Alliander annual report 2015
** Team industry Analysis – 2015 Q4
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SIM-CI
Heat Mapping & Simulation-
based Risk Analysis
€5BN CI
Assets
HOW DO I BEST PROTECT MY ASSETS?
€40M
Assets at Risk
€10M
Maintenance &
Contingency Planning
= €30M
Reduced Exposure

BENEFITS
● Increase Efficiency by
optimizing workflow
● Advanced Data quality
through constant asset
update
● Reduce Opex by streamlining
processes, validate
maintenance decisions and
reduce hotspot incidents and
black swans due to cascading
effects
● Insights into network
interdependencies
● Risk Scenarios, Analysis &
mitigation
● Maintenance & Capit spending
decisions across CI’s
● Increase Safety from resilient city
decign to maintenance workflow
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IGOR VAN GEMERT
Founder/CEO
ROBERT HEWINS
Program Director, Product Dev.
SUSANNE WALDAU
Business Development & Marcom
DHIRADJ DJAIRAM
Research Director
JAAP GIELINK
Financial Controller
FRANCESCO GENTILUOMO
HR Director
MANAGEMENT TEAM
JERRY DAWSON
Technical Director

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PARTNERS

YOUR BOTTOM LINE - YOUR
CUSTOMERS’ LIFELINE
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Critical Infrastructure networks are not only your business but also
your customers’ lifeline. They are dependent on your CIs running
smoothly and uninterrupted. With high expectations at stake,
operators cannot afford failure, nor can they allow their CIs to be
vulnerable to risks ranging from adverse events from other
networks to cyber attacks and climate change.
For smarter, resilient networks and actionable foresight in planning
and managing assets, SIM-CI is the solution for CI operators and
their customers. Contact us today for more information!

Simulating Critical Infrastructures
SIM-CI
Mr. Igor van Gemert
Email: igor.van.Gemert@sim-ci.com
Mobile: +31631031648
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