BorderUAS has initiated clustering actions with the project FOLDOUT – Through Foliage Detection of Illegal Cross-Border Activities (GA no 787021).
On September 2020, the project coordinator received a warm welcome to present BorderUAS to the FOLDOUT consortium highlighting common objectives and potential areas of cooperation.
Currently, both consortia are under discussions to set the baseline and the common ground for a collaboration; all the relevant updates on this progress will be featured in the BorderUAS news.
ROBORDER aims to implement a heterogenous robot system with detection skills for early recognition of criminal activity at the border and along the coast, as well as marine pollution occurrences.
METICOS aims to create an up-to-date acceptance classification scheme as well as a societal and ethical impact dashboard of border control technologies, to empower three major sub-divisions of the wider border control sector: travelers, border control authorities and service providers.
As a result of the new collaboration with METICOS, BorderUAS is now a member of the H2020 Border External Security Cluster.
EFFECTOR offers an Interoperability Framework and associated Data Fusion and Analytics services for Maritime Surveillance and Border Security. EFFECTOR enhances the current state of art, by improving the decision support process, and fostering collaboration of maritime stakeholders from local, regional and transnational level. With EFFECTOR, new events are detected faster, decision making is enhanced, while a joint understanding and undertaking of a situation is achieved across borders. EFFECTOR allows a seamless cooperation between the operating authorities and on-site intervention forces, through a secure and privacy protected network.
NESTOR is an EU-funded project of 21 partners from 13 countries aiming to address a common challenge among EU Member States: the protection and safeguarding of the European marine and land borders. To meet this challenge, NESTOR develops a next generation holistic border surveillance system providing pre-frontier situational awareness reaching maritime and land borders. The solution follows the concept of the European Integrated Border Management.
NESTOR integrates state of-the art surveillance technologies into a holistic deployable system capable of detecting, assessing and efficiently responding to illegal activities. The NESTOR system will be enriched with accurate detection capabilities to optimally monitor border territory and will offer enhanced situational awareness and increased decision-making capacity to Law Enforcement Agencies by employing advanced data fusion and Artificial Intelligent techniques to multimodal feeds from numerous off-the-shelf devices. Advanced visual analytics will be developed in a comprehensive framework presenting the acquired sensory readings and the detection outcomes. Mixed reality technologies will offer an effective coverage surveillance system to improve the overall operational image of the surveillance areas and qualitatively expand detection capabilities. The complete NESTOR concept will be assessed in three international trials in both land and maritime operations.
Improved maritime awareness by means of AI and BD methods
An EU H2020 project devoted to develop new technologies that will provide European Border Guards Authorities with an open Artificial Intelligence service-based Toolkit able to analyse the Big Data coming from maritime surveillance reporting systems.
Novel technology that scans human bodies, while increasing safety, improving traveller experience and respecting human privacy.
MELCHIOR is an EU funded Innovation Action project which aims to improve, mature and demonstrate the novel infrasound interrogation Z-MESMERISE technology in operational environments including border controls in airports and sea-ports and land borders as well as other environments where the technology would be quite useful like crowded events and prisons.
In a nutshell, MELCHIOR aims to improve substantially a novel technology for fast detection of drugs, explosives, weapons and illicit goods concealed on individuals and in critical cavities of the human body based on infrasound mechanical impedance interrogation, optionally complemented with other harmless and non-contact technologies.
This project aims to drastically increase the safety of the border staff having to touch inspected individuals. Thus, travelers’ experience will improve greatly. Since no contact is needed, individuals do not have to undress and therefore their privacy is respected.
The project ODYSSEUS titled “Unobtrusive Technologies for Secure and Seamless Border Crossing for Travel Facilitation” is a project that aims to enhance the experience of border crossing for travellers and border authorities’ staff while keeping secure and tracking the movements across external water and land borders of the EU. This initiative aims to protect passengers’ fundamental rights while promoting the security and integrity of the European space by minimizing unauthorized cross-border movements of people and goods.
The two projects will explore all possible opportunities of collaboration and cross communication of the findings and achievements.
The ODYSSEUS research project addresses the ever-present and ever-changing problem of the construction of improvised explosive devices, aiming at the early detection of explosive precursors. These substances are components that, after chemical and physical treatment, can yield explosives that will be used in terrorist attacks. The ODYSSEUS program aims to offer a comprehensive response proposal by combining artificial intelligence computational tools and previous detection tools in the field, harmoniously working together on a digital platform. Regarding digital solutions, the project will offer tools for automated search of explosives recipes even on social media and the dark web, tools for surveying and monitoring the supply chain of related chemicals in retail as well as evaluating related chemicals, while for the identification of substances in the field, it will provide accurate chemical detectors which are deployed in the field with autonomous ground and aerial platforms (UAV & UGV). Overall, the ODYSSEAS solution offers a complete and capable quiver of tools that work in tandem to prevent the composition of explosives.
METEOR aims to revolutionize cargo screening with innovative and efficient technology capable of delivering fast, reliable, and economical container inspections, to provide customs authorities with an effective screening solution to detect various threats and combat illicit goods trafficking, particularly illicit drugs.
METEOR utilizes vapour-based technology, achieved by collecting a sample of air representative of the container’s interior and subsequently analyzing its chemical content. It is non-destructive, can be designed to be minimally intrusive and safer for the screener, and has the potential for complete automation, eliminating the need for human interpretation. This technology aims to enhance the efficiency of current screening methods, enabling customs agencies to inspect more containers, contributing to increased border security, and ultimately, safeguarding citizens and infrastructure.
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BorderUAS is a research project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 – Research and Innovation Framework Programme, SU-BES02-2018-2019-2020– Technologies to enhance border and external security, under grant agreement no. 883272. The project started on June 2020 and ends in June 2023. The BorderUAS’ consortium consists of 19 partners from academia and industry, as well as public bodies. The present website is part of the dissemination and communication activities undertaken by the BorderUAS consortium within the aim to successfully communicate its research output on a rather innovative topic to a wider public and facilitate the creation of synergies with interested stakeholders.
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The present data protection policy clarifies in a layered manner the processing of personal information of visitors of the BorderUAS’ website. The data processing on the BorderUAS website is pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation), Greek Law 4624/2019 on the protection of personal data and any other applicable law.
The Data Controller is the Center for Security Studies (KEMEA) with offices in Athens, at P. Kanellopoulou str., 4, 10177 Greece. The Data Controller can be contacted by writing to the address above or by sending an e-mail message to kemea@kemea.gr , or by calling at Telephone: +30 2107710805 or sending a Fax at Fax number: +30 211 100 4499.
KEMEA’s Data Protection Officer may be reached at dpo@kemea-research.gryou have any question about the processing of your data when using the BorderUAS website or you wish to exercise any of your rights as data subject.
3.1. When visiting the BorderUAS website
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The personal data of the user/ visitor are processed for the following purposes:
The data processing takes place according to article 6(1)(a) GDPR, your informed consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time with future effect, by sending an informal email to dpo@kemea-research,gr. We may also process personal data based on art. 6(1)(c), when the processing is necessary for our compliance with a legal obligation.
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No transfer to non- EU countries/ international organizations is foreseen.
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If you wish to exercise any of your rights, you may contact us via e-mail at dpo@kemea-research.gr.
Your personal data is retained only for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purposes described above, and they will not be retained more than 5 years after the end of the project, unless a longer retention period is required by legal obligations or regulations.
Your personal data are processed by electronic means in compliance with the provisions of art. 32 of GDPR 2016/679, national law and in compliance with the principles of data’s confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Your personal data are transferred in an encoded manner using the widely used and secure TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption standard. You will recognise a secure TLS connection by the additional “s” after “http” (i.e., https://..) in the address bar of your browser or from the lock icon. Moreover, we use suitable technical and organizational measures, which are being continuously enhanced, to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or against unauthorized access by third parties.
This data protection policy is effective as of September 2020.
We keep our Data Protection Policy under regular review to make sure it is up to date and precise. Thus, it may become necessary to change it due to the potential addition of new features to the BorderUAS website or due to further legal requirements. You can have access to the latest data protection information on the BorderUAS website at “permanent link of data protection policy”.
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