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Intelligent Urban Defense And Resilience

Protecting cities before
the threat arrives.

We measure every street and curb of the city with sub-meter precision. We simulate how an attacker could move through it. We compute where the barriers have to go. Before anyone tries for real.

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After Nice, Berlin, and Barcelona, cities installed barriers. Billions of euros were invested in urban security. Yet no city has ever verified whether its defenses would actually stop an attack. That is the gap IGUDAR closes.

01

THE PROBLEM

In Europe, vehicle ramming
is a systemic threat.

14 JULY 2016 · NICE
86
killed · 434 injured
19-ton truck along the Promenade des Anglais during Bastille Day fireworks.
19 DEC 2016 · BERLIN
12
killed · 56 injured
Hijacked truck rammed into the Breitscheidplatz Christmas market.
20 DEC 2024 · MAGDEBURG
5
killed · 200+ injured
SUV driven through the crowd at the Alter Markt Christmas market.

Italy responded with the Gabrielli Directive (2017). But no one knows how to measure its effectiveness.

02

THE ARCHITECTURE

Three layers.
One platform.

L1

Threat Simulation

READY

On a map precise to under one meter, it finds every street, side road, and opening a vehicle could use to reach the crowd. No corridor is left unchecked.

L2

Defense Optimization

READY

Computes the optimal barrier layout to neutralize every corridor. Generates reports compliant with the Gabrielli Directive.

L3

Risk Intelligence

ROADMAP 2027

Turns simulations into quantified risk scores for insurers, event organizers and public administrations.

L1+L2 are the HVM module, already validated. L3 turns IGUDAR into a scalable platform.

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03

THE STATE OF THE ART

Today, urban security is still
done with the site visit.

01

Security consultants

A human expert walks the site, reads the plans, proposes a barrier layout based on what they see.

LIMITATION

Qualitative assessment. Not reproducible.

02

Ministerial guidelines

National circulars (Italy: Gabrielli Directive) define checklists: minimum distances, barrier types, procedures.

LIMITATION

Generic. Not site-specific.

03

Personal experience

Law enforcement, event operators, installers rely on what worked in past events. Tacit knowledge, not documented.

LIMITE

Not measurable. Not defensible.

The result: public budgets spent without being able to prove the return in lives saved.

04

HOW IT WORKS

How we're building it.
Four layers of defense.

01

Measure

Every street, curb, bollard, and elevation of the site measured with sub-meter precision. A digital copy identical to reality.

02

Analyze

Every attack corridor toward the target zone — including the side streets no one considered.

03

Defend

An optimization agent computes the barrier layout. Objective function: zero projected casualties.

04

Validate

The Red Agent tries to break the defense. If it succeeds, the layout is retested. Output: Gabrielli-compliant tactical report.

05

THE METHOD

The traditional way of testing
barriers is optimistic.

We compared two methodologies on the same barrier layout.

TRADITIONAL METHOD

8 cardinal directions

N · NE · E · SE · S · SW · W · NW

81.6%
apparent mitigation score

“Everything is fine.”

IGUDAR METHOD

50 adversarial attacks

Red Agent generates paths from random angles

54%
real mitigation score (median)

This is the truth.

The gap is why billions spent on barriers do not deliver the security they promise.

06

THE CASE

Piazzale XX Settembre,
Pordenone.

CONFIGmax protection · 50 barriers

50 barriers placed by the algorithm. Tested against 50 adversarial attacks generated at random angles.

54%
median mitigation score
against 50 adversarial paths
0
paths above lethality threshold
mass casualty zone · 80 km/h
−65%
max impact velocity
from 156 to 54 km/h

Baseline without barriers: 5% mitigation. With IGUDAR: 54%. A jump of 49 points.

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07

OUTPUT

What the platform
produces.

Each simulation run generates a full tactical report: threat map, barrier layout, adversarial path replay, and KPIs benchmarked against a baseline configuration.

IGUDAR tactical report — Red vs Blue simulation on Piazzale XX Settembre, Pordenone.
SIM-002 · life-saver-optimal

Piazzale XX Settembre, Pordenone. 20 optimized barriers benchmarked against a 10-barrier manual baseline across 50 adversarial vectors. Casualty reduction: 46% — with half the barriers in the right places.

46%
casualty reduction
46.0 → 26.5 avg
20 / 10
optimized vs manual
barriers deployed
50
adversarial vectors
Red Agent, random angles
~2 h
simulation runtime
Gabrielli-compliant report, auto-generated

Same site, two configurations: the 50-barrier max-protection run (Section 06) proves the defensive ceiling; the 20-vs-10 run above proves why optimization matters when budgets are finite.

08

MULTI-DOMAIN BY DESIGN

One platform.
Four domains.

The architecture — Threat Simulation, Defense Optimization, Risk Intelligence — is agnostic to the type of threat. We start from the module that already works.

BEACHHEAD
LAND

HVM — Vehicle Ramming

Squares, markets, events, pedestrian zones. All public spaces with high crowd density where a vehicle can become a weapon. The module in production today.

COMPATIBLE
BUILDINGS

Internal

Perimeter intrusion of embassies, government offices, corporate headquarters. Same platform, different threat.

COMPATIBLE
AIR

Aerial

Drone threats in urban spaces. Adversarial pathfinding extended to the third dimension.

COMPATIBLE
WATER

Maritime

Port security and harbor access. Access simulation and optimization of maritime barriers.

09

L3 · RISK INTELLIGENCE

From simulation
to risk score.

The third layer turns every simulation into a comparable number. Measurable. Auditable. Insurable. What the platform produces today is below, with the real data from Piazzale XX Settembre, Pordenone. L3 will bring these outputs into a standard rating, readable by insurers, municipalities, and event organizers.

REAL OUTPUT Piazzale XX Settembre · Pordenone
54%
median mitigation
0
mass casualty paths
54 km/h
max impact velocity
5%
baseline (no barriers)
50 adversarial paths tested · Gabrielli-compliant
FOR INSURERS

Pricing by real vulnerability

High-impact event coverage priced on the site's defensive posture, not just the postcode. Subjective assessments replaced with simulated data.

FOR MUNICIPALITIES

Investments justified by data

Which sites need intervention first, with a score that stands up to scrutiny. Budget allocations defended with objective metrics instead of political perception.

FOR EVENT ORGANIZERS

Certification before opening

A defensive certification before the gates open. Proof to authorities and insurers that the venue has been adversarially tested, not just inspected.

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OUR VISION

Defense through
geometry.

IGUDAR takes its name from the igudar — the fortified granaries of the Amazigh people in southern Morocco. Built into mountainsides, they protected entire communities for centuries. Not with armies, but with the geometry of the environment itself.

We're building on the same principle: use the shape of a city as its own defense. An adversarial optimization engine designed to adapt to any scenario — from a market square to a commercial port, from a stadium to a government district.

10

THE ROADMAP

HVM today.
Risk Intelligence in 2027.
Europe in 2028.

Q2 2026

L1+L2 production-ready

Three pilot cities: Pordenone, Udine, Trieste.

Q4 2026

SaaS platform launch

First security consultants and event organizers onboarded.

Q3 2027

L3 Risk Intelligence — beta

Pilot with insurance companies.

2028

European expansion

France, Germany, Spain. L3 in production.

We work with cities
that won't wait.

IGUDAR is in active development. We're talking to municipalities, security operators and institutions for pilot programs.

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