Synergies
Foldout

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

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

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

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

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.

PROMENADE

 Duration: 18 months

 

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.

MELCHIOR

 

 

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.

odysseus

 

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.

odysseus h2020

 

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

 

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.