Periodic Reporting for period 2 - SYSTEM (SYnergy of integrated Sensors and Technologies for urban sEcured environMent)
Periodo di rendicontazione: 2020-07-01 al 2022-02-28
Capitalising on the expertise enhanced during the forerunning H2020 Innovation Actions NOSY and Micromole, the SYSTEM project enables knowledge sharing and transfer amongst sensor providers, LEAs and network utility operators with the final aim of providing concrete technological solutions to detect drugs and explosive production in an urban area. The H2020 SYSTEM project exploits analytical chemistry for providing innovative tools for fighting against crime.
The main objective of SYSTEM is to create a network of sensing devices, fuse data collected from them and make available relevant information to LEAs. Sensing devices have been deployed across different urban areas in six cities and the results of their detection are gathered in remote mode in a monitoring centre. The decision support contribution based on real-time data provided by SYSTEM complements tools currently adopted by LEAs to identify clandestine laboratories for the production of illicit drugs or explosives.
• An innovative approach for the monitoring of amphetamine-type-stimulants (ATS) and homemade explosives (HME) production in urban and suburban areas.
• Chemical analysis methods to detect traces of synthetic drug synthesis and of the making of homemade explosives in the sewage waste.
• Improved sensor principles for chemical measuring under extraordinary conditions.
• Robust technologies, including sensing devices for detection in sewage or in solid waste as well as for autarkic air monitoring.
• Innovative sensor fusion models to help locate the source of the tracked compounds and improve its identification.
• New solutions for LEAs investigations include a unified data management and control centre with algorithms which consider real-time data.
SYSTEM has achieved results having an impact on detection capacities and making evidence available, assessing the effectiveness of “production location” by deploying sensing technologies, as well as proving a reliable information base to fight against crime. The impact of the SYSTEM project refers to a type of device integration that presents innovation and an improvement under the aspect of effectiveness, as well as new best practices associated with the data fusion. Impacts of SYSTEM results are mainly identified in the following areas:
• Proving detection capacities and making evidence available for authorities involved in the fight against crime.
• Assessing effectiveness of “production location” by deploying sensing technologies thanks to a more effective detection and localization of clandestine sites producing synthetic drugs and explosives.
• Proving a reliable information base to fight against crime through a wide range of data that can be offered to Law Enforcement Agencies, Security and Intelligence Agencies, Government Laboratories, etc.
• Potential Impact not foreseen is identified in the application of SYSTEM and its capacities for data aggregation for environmental purposes - monitoring/detection of pollution, or in general anomalous presence of substances.
• Societal Implications of the Project are recognised by the need of safeguarding core societal values, fundamental rights and civil liberties also when security has an essential role.