Objective The detection of IED manufacturing facilities is crucial for the security of citizens, as well as infrastructures and utilities. Current sensing methods suffer from susceptibility to false positive results due to environmental contaminants, or false negative results to interfering compounds. The need exists for a single distributed network, with a common interface and communications protocol, to manage and communicate with a variety of different sensor technologies, and use the combined sensor data to produce clear and unequivocal results with low false positive/negative readings.The goal of the CommonSense project is to create and demonstrate this sensor network, through the simultaneous and parallel development of novel materials, portable sensors and a wireless communications network, which uses chemometric data processing algorithms to “learn” to recognise trace amounts of explosives, and differentiate them from interferents. The partners will produce a series of novel organic, polymeric and nanocrystalline materials with tuned optoelectronic properties and surface affinities to be used as the active sensor elements. These elements will be incorporated into devices based on optical, electrical, and other readout mechanisms, for detection of airborne and waterborne analytes.The CommonSense project will also incorporate radiation detectors to detect this growing security threat of “dirty bombs”, where sub-critical amounts of radioactive materials, obtained from medical waste or other sources, are incorporated into IEDs. The key point in the use of such a variety of sensor technologies is that no one substance can act as an interferent to all of the sensors, thus reducing false positives and negatives. Eliminating the remaining false readings will be achieved through use of the chemometric algorithms in order to teach itself to recognise the “fingerprint” sensor response to different explosives types and ignore interfering compounds. Fields of science engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorssmart sensorsnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata processing Programme(s) FP7-SECURITY - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Security Topic(s) SEC-2010.1.3-3 - Detection of IED manufacturing facilities Call for proposal FP7-SEC-2010-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK EU contribution € 1 028 891,00 Address WESTERN ROAD T12 YN60 Cork Ireland See on map Region Ireland Southern South-East Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Conor Delaney (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Israel EU contribution € 525 200,00 Address SENATE BUILDING TECHNION CITY 32000 Haifa See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Jack Lavan (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER United Kingdom EU contribution € 548 088,00 Address OXFORD ROAD M13 9PL Manchester See on map Region North West (England) Greater Manchester Manchester Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Liz Fay (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Alphasense Limited United Kingdom EU contribution € 254 475,00 Address 300 Avenue West Skyline 120 CM77 7AA Great Notley See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact John Saffell (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data BUNDESANSTALT FUER MATERIALFORSCHUNG UND -PRUEFUNG Germany EU contribution € 349 200,00 Address Unter den Eichen 87 12205 Berlin See on map Region Berlin Berlin Berlin Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Eva-Maria Müller (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SENSL TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED Ireland EU contribution € 115 993,00 Address BUILDING 6800 AVENUE 6000 CORK AIRPORT BUSINESS PARK - CORK See on map Region Ireland Northern and Western Border Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact John Kenneally (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data THALES SIX GTS FRANCE SAS France EU contribution € 284 655,00 Address AVENUE DES LOUVRESSES 4 92230 Gennevilliers See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Hauts-de-Seine Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Sylvie Raynaud (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Police Service of Northern Ireland United Kingdom EU contribution € 298 433,00 Address Knock Road 65 BT5 6LE Belfast See on map Region Northern Ireland Northern Ireland Belfast Activity type Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Gerald Murray (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data