Project description
Sealing the future of customs control
Lengthy customs inspections for freight trucks create bottlenecks at Europe’s borders, slowing supply chains, increasing costs, and wasting fuel. The challenge lies in finding a way to keep goods moving while ensuring security. With this in mind, the EU-funded PACK project combines IoT technology with edge-based AI to deliver a cyber-resilient, tamper-proof customs seal for cargo compartments. Its smart sensor array continuously monitors conditions, enabling selective roadside checks and minimising false alarms. The goal is to reduce wait times, saving the transport sector hundreds of millions of Euro, millions of hours, and vast amounts of fuel annually. Participation of EU customs authorities in the project ensures compliance with future EU customs regulations and fast rollout.
Objective
By combining IoT solutions with edge-based AI, our project PACK significantly decreases the number of trucks to be stopped for checking, enables fully automated customs checks, improves energy efficiency by optimising the equipment to operate autonomously with minimal environmental impact. It aims to deliver a highly secure, cyber-resilient access control system specifically designed for the cargo compartments of freight trucks. This innovative system enhances and integrates advanced detection, tracking, and risk-based selective control systems, featuring trustworthy algorithms that reduce false positives and biases. PACK brings more efficient customs control processes by a smart IoT-enabled customs seal to deter tampering and an intelligent IoT sensor array equipped with edge-based AI for continuous monitoring. With this setup, the system can independently evaluate the need to issue alerts to supervising authorities, thereby streamlining roadside inspections. Additionally, it allows customs and law enforcement agencies to access and unlock the customs seal at any point during transit, including locations outside traditional customs yards and checkpoints. Our goal is to demonstrate that implementing PACK across the European Union can significantly reduce freight truck waiting times at external EU borders, by just a 10% market penetration saving the logistics and transportation industry ~ €241 million and 2.35 million hours of time annually. This improvement would also result in the conservation of ~70.5 million litres of fuel annually, reducing CO2 emissions by approximately 190.000 metric tons each year. The complete solution will be validated with end-users in realistic operational scenarios, running parallel to actual customs inspections to benchmark its performance and deliver measurable results. Market uptake is planned in a public-private cost sharing model where customs authorities, truck operators and logistics companies share deployment costs.
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HORIZON.2.3 - Civil Security for Society
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HORIZON.2.3.2 - Protection and Security
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL3-2024-BM-01
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1118 Budapest
Hungary
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