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UNMANNED VEHICLES FOR CIVIL SECURITY AND SURVEILLANCE MISSIONS

Project description

Smart emergency response with unmanned tech

Europe’s critical infrastructure, including ports, rail yards and power stations, is increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters, accidents, and malicious threats. However, managing emergencies and protecting these complex sites is a logistical and technological challenge. In this context, the EU-funded PROACTIF project is developing a next-generation civil security framework using unmanned vehicles. Combining advanced sensors, AI-driven perception, secure mission control, and multi-domain teaming, the system will deploy aerial, ground, and surface robots to respond to incidents. From wildfires to search and rescue, the technologies will be tested in real-life scenarios. With 42 partners from 13 countries, PROACTIF aims to strengthen Europe’s strategic autonomy in security tech, ensuring coordinated responses to emergencies across all terrains.

Objective

PROACTIF develops unmanned vehicles based framework for civil security, combining cutting edge UxVs, sensors,
components, mission control and multi-domain teaming for safe and secure surveillance of critical infrastructures
and for efficient management of emergency situations.
The project concept is based on R&D in three technology domains (TDs): TD1 is dedicated to UXV perception
capabilities, enabling an unmanned vehicle to observe the surrounding world, including e.g. radars, LiDARs and
antennas, as well as IR, hyperspectral and electromagnetic sensing, and edge-could managing of related data. TD2
will focus in UXV mission management, enabling command and control, connectivity, location and positioning,
cybersecurity and teaming needed for the complex operations by unmanned vehicles, also paving the way to
autonomic vehicles. TD3 will focus in developing of 5 UxV platform capabilities; UAV, USV and 3 different UGVs.
All the technology building blocks developed in TD1 and TD2 will be demonstrated both individually and on TD3
platforms in relevant civil security missions. The mission cases represent the different security needs of the civil
society, including offshore, seaports, rail yards, energy substations, emergency sites, wildfires, search and rescue and
crowd monitoring and teamed UxV operation. The results provide focused contributions to the SRIA 2024 topics.
PROACTIF aims to ensure that Europe is well prepared for the whole range of different security challenges and
emergency situations, with the aid of technologies that will be available in different geopolitical situations -
technologies whose ownership and manufacturing capabilities are in Europe.
The consortium includes 42 partners from 13 different countries: 18 SMEs, 11 LEs and 13 RTOs, covering the value
chain from electronics packaging to sensors and components, data management, AI and cybersecurity, to UXV
platforms to integrate them, and end users. The total budget is 42 M€.

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€ 515 055,00
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Region
Manner-Suomi Helsinki-Uusimaa Helsinki-Uusimaa
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Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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€ 2 575 275,00

Participants (42)

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