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BOmb factory detection by Networks of Advanced Sensors (BONAS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Increasing the Security of citizens
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Sweden,Portugal,Switzerland,Germany,France,France,Finland,United Kingdom,France,United Kingdom,Italy,Estonia
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4971631.81
EU funding (EUR): 3488360.01
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of BONAS is to design, develop and test a novel wireless sensors network for increasing citizen protection and homeland security against terrorist attacks, in particular against the threat posed by IED devices. The sensor network will focus on the detection of traces of precursors used in IED production (particulates, gases and/or waterborne) present in the environment surrounding the vicinity of a “bomb factory”. The different sensors are specifically designed to be deployed in sensitive locations and easily camouflaged. This network will support the “factory’s location”, allowing an early threat thwart. A feasibility study will assess the usefulness and potential advantages that the BONAS concept will bring about in the future and the costs of mass production of sensor networks integrating COTS components. BONAS intends also to investigate and prepare the potential future deployment of key sensors aboard a flying platform with a view towards increasing the BONAS network detection capabilities. The wireless sensor network will feature a variety of sensing devices (in-situ and remote), that will jointly provide broad chemical spread and low false alarm rates through an expert system management of the data collected. In particular, BONAS will develop: Lidar/Dial system; QEPAS sensor; SERS sensor; an Immunosensor. BONAS includes a multidisciplinary team of leading European research groups (ENEA, QUB, CSEM, ONE, UCBL, UNIL, KCL) together with industrial organizations (CREO, LDI, SAB, TEK, EADS) and end-users (NBI) with previous experience and activity in the field of specific local and remote sensors development and with experience on Security projects. The consortium represents the complete supply chain of the proposed product, which sets good perspectives for exploitation and commercialization of the generated innovations. The consortium will be supported by an already established Advisory Board formed by experts from the main European and Israeli police corps.

Keywords: lidar. ied,qepas,sers,network,immunosensor
CATO - CBRN crisis management: Architecture, Technologies and Operational Procedures (CATO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Restoring security and safety in case of crisis
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Denmark,Denmark,Belgium,France,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Finland,Finland,Austria,Czechia,Slovakia,Israel,Norway,Denmark,Netherlands,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14050432.6
EU funding (EUR): 10278062.0
Participants: 27
Project status: CLOSED

CATO proposes to develop a comprehensive Open Toolbox for dealing with CBRN crises due to terrorist attacks using non-conventional weapons or on facilities with CBRN material. CATO will: • combine CBRN knowledge, planning & response know-how, DSS building blocks and dedicated models and algorithms • enable the development of specific holistic CBRN-DSS • cover the entire CBRN disaster life cycle from preparedness through detection and response until recovery, supporting the multiple players from policy makers to field teams in the seamless transition from planning to monitoring to operational response to debriefing • assess and effectively address CBRN crisis situations • allow for the coexistence of public knowledge with classified information (there will be none in CATO), which the owner of a specific CATO DSS can add to “his” CATO Knowledge Base • address the multiple facets of CBRN preparedness and resilience such as medical response, societal and psychological issues, organisational and operational approaches as well as multiple-use equipment • update medical countermeasures in the fields of treatments and decontamination • use new information sources, today wasted in crises, e.g. written population input and CCTV images • facilitate, by a dedicated simulation-centred CATO Laboratory (both virtual and hosted by some of the partners), the learning about CBRN attacks (e.g. new threats and responses) and the training of field teams CATO will thus address the key CBRN incident management challenge - fragmentation: of doctrines, of knowledge, of processes, of systems. CATO brings an innovative answer to the diversity of organisational set-ups and of legacy systems for emergency preparedness & management (ICT, equipment, sensors...).

Keywords: cbrn,framework,integrated toolbox
Decision Support on Security Investment (DESSI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Security and society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Denmark,Austria,Norway,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1902303.73
EU funding (EUR): 1561095.91
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The DESSI project will develop a highly structured and versatile method for Decision Support on Security Investment, which provides a participatory assessment process, which takes into account the many and complex societal dimensions of security investment decisions. The method will be developed through a combination of foresight and technology assessment methodologies, threat, security and criminology research, and praxis in multi-criteria assessment methods in fields such as cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment and impact assessment. The user will be able to compare alternative ways of counteracting a specific threat. The comparison will be made on a set of dimensions in security investment decisions, such as security gain, privacy impact, social implications, political significance, and economy. The assessment will be future-oriented by testing the investments against a set of future scenarios on possible changes in the societal context, thereby checking the robustness of decisions. DESSI will include participatory procedures, in which users, stakeholders, experts, decision-makers and/or citizens contribute to the structured consultation process, and thereby ensuring a balanced and broadly accepted assessment. It includes an internet-based work-flow tool. The method provides for overview and insight into the pros and cons of a certain investment, as compared to a set of alternatives, and leave the final decision up to the user. A strong dissemination strategy ensures effective diffusion of the method. The DESSI consortium contains expertise in: High-level decision support and advice; Conflict and national security research; Criminology and inner security; Impact assessment procedures; Foresight praxis; Participatory methodologies; Cost-benefit analysis and innovation economy.

Keywords: security,decision support,foresight,technology assessment,participation,scenarios,methodology
Vulnerability Identification Tools for Resilience Enhancements of Urban Environments (VITRUV)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Increasing the Security of infrastructures and utilities
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Ireland,Austria,France,Italy,Germany,Denmark,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2014-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4520921.8
EU funding (EUR): 3339898.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The vulnerability of urban environments remains an undeveloped theme. With half of the world’s population currently living in urban centres, and with this figure set to increase to two-thirds by 2050, the issue of security and citizen safety is of paramount importance and a growing concern. In view of the growing number of threats from global terrorism, natural disasters or crime, urban planning practice must incorporate appropriate security measures for vulnerability identification and resilience enhancements. Urban planning is a process involving numerous stakeholders and multi-disciplinary teams. Although the use of software tools plays a significant role in this complex process, yet, none exist that take into consideration the security (and connected safety) aspects of urban planning as a whole. Urban planning teams need tools that fully encompass the pre-application process with developers/designers, and facilitate flexible solutions, not imposed measures. The objective of VITRUV is the development of software tools for the long and complex screening process, which is urban planning, moving across three levels from concept to plan to detail design. Based on an all hazard risk approach, the tools will enable planners • to make well-considered systematic qualitative decisions (concept level), • to analyse the susceptibility of urban spaces (e.g. building types, squares, public transport, and their functionalities) with respect to new threats (plan level), and • to perform vulnerability analyses of urban spaces by computing the likely damage on individuals, buildings, traffic infrastructure (detail level). All levels (concept, plan and detail) will contribute to enabling the development of more robust and resilient space in the field of urban (re)planning/(re)design/(re)engineering. Planners who use VITRUV’s tools will be able to deliver urban space less prone to and less affected by attacks and disasters, thus sustainably improving the security of citizens

Keywords: risk assessment,modelling,tools,urban,spatial planning,empirical analysis,quantitative analysis
Mastering the Value Function of Security Measures (VALUESEC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Security and society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Finland,Norway,Spain,Poland,Spain,Israel
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4473809.0
EU funding (EUR): 3443210.1
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The Task of VALUESEC is defining, context modeling, weighting and quantifying attributes of costs and benefits, advantages and disadvantages of security measures, and demonstration of an application tool evaluating the different effects and the aggregated value of security measures. It will generate a knowledge base of the status and trends in theory and in practical applications of methods of economics applied to security decision making. The great challenge will be to combine economical (mostly quantitative) and societal effects (mostly qualitative) of security measures into a “value function”, one methodology framework and integrate it into a toolkit which will be flexible and user friendly, and applicable to a large spectrum of possible decisions in the security domain. Decisions supported by this tool will be more transparent and better rationalized than present. Project approach: - Problem Analysis and Requirements: Which typical problem classes should be addressed? Analyze and describe decision making processes and requirements for improvement. - Theories, Methodologies, Components: Which existing approaches to value and utility functions can be exploited to security decisions? Identification of innovation potential. - Design and usability: Which functions should the tool be capable to perform to provide for effective decision support? Define functionality, attributes and usable models and map them against identified problem classes - Development: How will the system work? Transformation of the models and utility function into applicable tools. - Evaluation: How do the implemented tools really work and help? Proof of the power and applicability of the tools in realistic use cases. - Dissemination and exploitation: How will findings and results be propagated and brought to practical use? How should research on security economics continue? Help pave the way to a future with more transparent and valuable security decisions.

Keywords: cost-benefit,decision support tools,security decisions
Protection of European seas and borders through the intelligent use of surveillance (PERSEUS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Intelligent surveillance and enhancing border security
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,France,France,Italy,Greece,Norway,Sweden,Luxembourg,France,France,Portugal,Finland,Switzerland,Netherlands,Ireland,France,Belgium,Spain,Spain,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 43434221.86
EU funding (EUR): 27847579.0
Participants: 33
Project status: CLOSED

PERSEUS contributes to Europe’s efforts to monitor illegal migration and combat related crime and goods smuggling by proposing a large scale demonstration of a EU Maritime surveillance System of Systems, on the basis of existing national systems and platforms, enhancing them with innovative capabilities and moving beyond EUROSUR’s 2013 expectations, addressing key challenges:  supporting the network created by National Contact Centres, Frontex and EMSA through increased capabilities, including transnational exchange of useful and available information, and associated procedures and mechanisms, thereby supporting the creation of a common information sharing environment  generation of a common situational picture  improved detection and identification of non collaborative/suspicious small boats and low flying aircraft  enhanced and increasingly automated detection of abnormal vessel behaviours, identification of threats and tracking of reporting and non-reporting vessels PERSEUS articulates this demonstration through 5 exercises grouped in 2 campaigns, implementing missions of drug trafficking and illegal migration control and delivering surveillance continuity from coastal areas to high seas. PERSEUS delivers a comprehensive set of validated and demonstrated recommendations and proposes standards. PERSEUS has assembled major users and providers, ensuring privileged access to existing surveillance systems and assets for an optimised coverage of the area of interest. These users will define, assess and validate the alignment of PERSEUS’s recommendations to their needs. PERSEUS also includes an evolution mechanism to enlarge the user base and integrate emerging technologies during its lifetime. PERSEUS will augment the effectiveness of operational capabilities of the existing systems – a relevant and coordinated contribution to the establishment of an integrated European-wide maritime border control system

Keywords: maritime surveillance,borders,illegal immigration,smugglin,trafficking,abnormal behaviour,security,small boats,detection,interoperability,common information sharing environment
AIRBorne information for Emergency situation Awareness and Monitoring (AIRBEAM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Restoring security and safety in case of crisis
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,Finland,Italy,Spain,Germany,Greece,Portugal,Germany,Sweden,France,Belgium,Slovenia,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15532973.0
EU funding (EUR): 9894307.7
Participants: 22
Project status: CLOSED

The AIRBEAM project proposes a situation awareness toolbox for the management of crisis over wide area taking benefit of an optimised set of aerial (unmanned) platforms, including satellites. The number of unmanned air- and space-borne platform available and their associated sensors present a new set of challenges to end users involved in the effective management of emergencies and actions of law enforcement. Within the scope of crisis management, the project intends to provide official public users from each Member States with the means to specify their own needs and to assess the technical solutions provided by unmanned aerial platforms. Through intense collaboration between industrial partners, stakeholders and end users, AIRBEAM will define an ambitious yet realistic concept of use. By running scenarios that will be properly selected and defined by the end-users within the project in a simulated environment, the increased capabilities for situation awareness will be assessed methodically. Various platform and sensor mixes will be compared using key performance indicators among which is cost effectiveness. Live demonstrations with multiple civil unmanned aerial platforms will complete these ground simulation exercises in demonstrating to end users the potential and maturity of the coordinated use of multiple platforms.

Keywords: situation awareness,end-users,uas,balloons,satellites,crisis management,law enforcement,emergencies,multi-platforms
Multi-Modal Situation Assessment & Analytics Platform (MOSAIC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Increasing the Security of infrastructures and utilities
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Italy,Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Belgium,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2014-07-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3572776.78
EU funding (EUR): 2664559.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

MOSAIC Platform will involve multi-modal data intelligence capture and analytics including video and text collaterals etc. The distributed intelligence within the platform enables decision support for automated detection, recognition, geo-location and mapping, including intelligent decision support at various levels to enhance situation awareness, surveillance targeting and camera handover; these involve level one fusion, and situation understanding to enable decision support and impact analysis at level two and three of situation assessment. Accordingly MOSAIC will develop and validate: i) A framework for capturing and interpreting the use-context requirements underpinned by a standard data ontology to facilitate the tagging, search and fusion of data from distributed multi-media sensors, sources and databases, ii) A systems architecture to support wide area surveillance with edge and central fusion and decision support capabilities, iii) Algorithms, including hardware-accelerated ones for smart cameras, which enable disparate multi-media information correlation to form a common operating picture, including representation of the temporal information and aspects, iv) Tools and techniques for the extraction of key information from video, un-controlled text and databases using pattern recognition and behaviour modelling techniques, v) Algorithms and techniques to represent decisions and actions within a mathematical framework, and how this framework can be used to simulate the effects of disturbances on the system, vi) An integrated system solution based upon the proposed systems architecture and the above developed enabling technologies including techniques for tagging different multi-media types with descriptive metadata to support multi-level fusion and correlation of surveillance and other data intelligence from distributed heterogeneous sources and networks.

Keywords: focused surveillance,decision support,wide area,social network analysis,video analytics,data mining,text mining,smart cameras
moBile, Autonomous and affordable SYstem to increase safety in Large unpredIctable environmentS (BASYLIS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Increasing the Security of infrastructures and utilities
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Denmark,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Finland
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2989188.34
EU funding (EUR): 2037265.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Civil installations such as power plants are often located in wide and remote areas. In the coming years, the number of small distributed facilities will increase as a direct result of new European environmental policies aimed at increasing societies’ resilience to local manifestations of climate change. Yet the protection of fragmented assets will be difficult to achieve and will require portable security systems that are affordable to those in charge of their management. The BASYLIS project aims to address these issues by developing a low-cost smart sensing platform that can automatically and effectively detect a range of security threats in complex environments. The principal obstacles to early threat detection in wide areas are of two types: functional (e.g. false-alarm rate) and ethical (e.g. privacy). Both problems are amplified when installations are dynamic or located in changing environments. Potential solutions are unaffordable to most of the potential users. The BASYLIS system will consist of a transportable security platform capable of detecting a wide range of pre-determined security threats. The prototype design will include four highly sensitive sensors exploiting different parts of the spectrum: radio, magnetic, seismic, acoustic and optical waves, as well as images via intelligent video. The information gathered by these sensors is then brought together into an information layer composed of three levels: multi-sensor integration (MSI), image processing and risk assessment. The BASYLIS system will be characterized by high performance and high usability index. The engagement of end users in the specification and validation of the design has been considered from the start of the project, ensuring that the design of the final system meets the needs of the users. BASYLIS consortium has decided to focus on “refugees-camps” a “hot-spot” environment where European and UN aids are injured, killed or kidnapped every year.

Keywords: critical infrastructure,adaptable,affordable,mobile,refugee camp,radar,ladar,ugs sensors,acoustic,behaviour analysis