Objective
CYPRESS will prepare a deep-tech cyber-physical resilience platform for drinking-water utilities (termed Procrustes), for market uptake and investment. As European utilities digitalise their networks, they face growing exposure to cyber incidents that can disrupt supply, damage assets, or undermine trust, while new EU rules on critical entities, network and information systems, and drinking water quality demand more systematic risk assessment and planning. Today, utilities rely on fragmented tools and expert studies that are costly to repeat, hard to compare, and difficult to translate into concrete investment decisions.
Procrustes offers a simulation and decision-support environment where utilities can explore “what-if” scenarios, test vulnerabilities, and compare alternative risk-reduction measures before implementation. It couples the digital monitoring and control layer with hydraulic and water-quality models to estimate how cyber-physical incidents would propagate through the system, how they would affect service, and which combinations of organisational and technical measures deliver the greatest risk reduction.
Starting from a TRL 4 research prototype already validated on a realistic full-scale sandbox network, CYPRESS will bring Procrustes to TRL 6 through a pilot with a Greek water utility, improve its usability and deployment for real-world operations, and package it as a repeatable software and service offering. The project will refine the business model, build early relationships with utilities and partners across Europe, and develop an investment-ready case and roadmap towards an EIC Accelerator application or equivalent private funding. Led by Tethys Consulting, a woman-led deep-tech SME from Athens, Greece, CYPRESS will help European utilities plan smarter resilience investments, reduce the impact of disruptive incidents, and strengthen the EU’s leadership in the protection of critical drinking-water infrastructure.
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HORIZON.4.1 - Widening participation and spreading excellence
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-02
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