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Cyber Physical Systems – Situation AnalysisDRAFT – March 9, 2012by buildings systems that integrate services including energy management, fire and security,transportation, fault detection and diagnostics, optimal control, real time purchase of electricity, and theaggregation of building stock. 191 Also, cybernetic building systems will be integrated with entities notonly within the building, but outside as well, such as with the Smart Grid. 192 For buildings, the mainchallenge to system integration starts with the design process. Lack of communication and cooperationbetween the designers, builders, managers, and occupants have resulted in buildings where systemsoperate mostly independently or even against each other, preventing buildings from achievingoptimization. 193For structures such as bridges, integration will play an important role for cyber-physical systems such asstructural health monitoring. A range of monitoring sensors and systems, protocols, end users, and enduser-targeteddata and information will be involved for bridges during their construction and lifetime.Each bridge will need a unique approach to a monitoring system which will likely involve different sensortypes. The complexity of the solutions itself presents a challenge for integration. Improvement is neededin sensors and data systems as well as how the different components are integrated, which will involvehardware and software experts, machine learning and pattern recognition experts, electrical and structuralengineers, and the owners and operators of the infrastructure systems for which the monitoringtechnologies are being developed. 194SecuritySecurity plays a paramount role and presents numerous challenges for smart buildings and bridges. Asbuildings and infrastructure become more integrated and the number of components increases, theopportunity for security risks increases as well. These security risks range from accidental or those causedby human error to malicious. For example, a failure in a fire alarm system may cause the HVAC systemto shut off or sprinklers to go on while occupants are in a building, causing unintended damage toequipment or inconvenience to the occupants. If hackers gain access to an HVAC system in a criticalbuilding such as a hospital, they could cause potential harm to hospital staff, patients, and visitors.Security policies and mechanisms must be properly designed, configured, and enforced, yet there is a lackof models and approaches that take both security and safety into consideration.In order to overcome the risks of security in CPS in buildings and infrastructure, certain challenges mustbe faced. Security considerations include intrusion detection, access control enforcement, and networksecurity. Increased integration and connectivity of systems in a building allows for convenient and usefulremote access for authorized users but poses the risk of infiltration by unauthorized users. As buildingsbecome a part of the Smart Grid, there are even more opportunities for vulnerabilities in the system. Toprotect CPS in increasingly integrated buildings and infrastructure from security threats, there is a needfor the development of tools and techniques that consider the possible security scenarios and thus ensurethat integration does not have negative effects. These verification and validation methods will beespecially be important for structures such as hospitals and chemical plants where exploitation could leadto harm to people or the environment. The development of a unified framework for analyzing safety andsecurity and methods to verify and validate the effectiveness of security mechanisms in building systemscould counter some of these security problems. 195191 NIST Measurement Science.192 NIST. ―Embedded Intelligence in Buildings Program.‖ 15 Dec 2011.193 Zero Energy Commercial Buildings Consortium (CBC). ―Analysis of Cost & Non-Cost Barriers and Policy Solutions forCommercial Buildings.‖194 French, C. et al. ―Report on the NSF Bridge Workshop.‖195 Workshop on Future Directions in CPS security.34