VR Platform for Protection Modeling of Critical Infrastructures

Current protection of critical infrastructures is often based on disparate and incompatible systems, with various grains and time scales and different control concerns. Our vision is that the heterogeneous control and security systems should be loosely but effectively integrated by the platform that generates the virtual models of the infrastructure. The introduced VR platform aims to integrate the various sensors and security systems committed to protection of critical infrastructures, over the digital model of the building. We discuss here a fast and inexpensive construction of digital models of complex buildings and infrastructures from line drawings of architectural plans, the only geometric information widely available. The paradigmatic reference is to PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), where geometric information provides the exchange/collaboration layer among all business data and departments. Our approach is centred on generation of BSP (Binary Space Partition) models of buildings from architectural plans, through automatic translation into a symbolic intermediate geometric language, whereas detailed representations of whatever infrastructure portions are generated at run-time by a streaming data-flow process well-suited for implementation on the Cell BE architecture. This Work is Dedicated By a Humble Native of Flatland In the Hope that Even as he was Initiated into the Mysteries Of THREE Dimensions Having been previously conversant With ONLY TWO So the Citizens of that