Descripción del proyecto
Mejor supervisión del correo para detectar paquetes con materiales ilícitos
¡Cuidado con los flujos de correos y paquetería! Por la Unión Europea (UE), circulan por correo mercancías, materiales y sustancias peligrosas e ilícitas. Las autoridades aduaneras, policiales, postales y de mensajería examinan el correo en una fase temprana de la cadena de suministro del correo saliente y entrante para detectar paquetes que contengan materiales ilícitos. Sin embargo, la eficacia, rapidez y continuidad de las tareas de cribado y detección siguen siendo limitadas. En el proyecto iFLOWS, financiado con fondos europeos, se diseñará, desarrollará, integrará, probará y validará un innovador conjunto de herramientas sinérgicas de varios niveles para ayudar a los servicios aduaneros, policiales, postales y de mensajería. La tecnología fomentará la cooperación entre los servicios policiales, aduaneros, postales y de mensajería de la UE y mejorará las operaciones de extracción de información, cribado y detección.
Objetivo
Preventing and fighting illicit material and dangerous substances postal and courier services flows in EU areas is of top priority. However, ensuring efficiency, speed and continuity in screening and detection tasks remains yet a challenge. Currently, custom, police and courier authorities involve a range of screening systems in place but there is still much to do in terms of detection efficacy and creation of intelligence towards risk and threat identification. On top of that, criminals or smugglers exploit the multitude of flows and easily spot security gaps that allow parcels or letters to be transported within or across EU with relative ease. To overcome these constraints, iFLOWS proposes a unique approach to assist customs, police and postal/courier services in preventing and detecting such crimes by improving operational readiness, enhancing situation awareness, reducing detection time, providing operational efficiency and achieving superior mission performance. iFLOWS will design, develop, integrate, test and validate a novel multi-tier synergistic Toolkit in enhancing intelligence extraction, screening and detection operations of illicit material and hazardous substances within courier and postal flows moving across and within EU borders. iFLOWS works upon these 3 building blocks to deliver a) a tailored to such operations C4I that boosts preparedness and cooperation be-tween police, customs and courier/postal services, b) enhanced Intelligence in terms of threats, risks and suspicious flows and c) novel detection technologies (i.e. THz Scanning system and UWB Scanner) featuring enhanced detection capabilities over a large span of illicit material and substances, which, coupled with advanced image-based feature extraction in combination to legacy systems (e.g. X-Ray and Raman) optimise the detection process without interrupting the postal/courier flows.
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinador
4040 Linz
Austria