Engineering Innovation in
Digital Defense, Aerospace & Homeland Security
A research project to enhance maritime surveillance, improve decision support, and foster collaboration of maritime stakeholders.
Approach & Solution
Approach
There are numerous challenges and threats that the maritime authorities need to tackle and efficiently address which are related to maritime accidents, piracy and armed robbery against ships, terrorist acts involving shipping, offshore installations and other maritime interests, illicit trafficking of weapons, drugs and persons, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, intentional and unlawful damage to marine environment and cyber threats for shipping.
In addition, maritime border surveillance and operations in EU need to face challenges related to the complex environment with a large number of islands and relatively unconstrained leisure traffic around large portions of the EU.
In addition, maritime border surveillance and operations in EU need to face challenges related to the complex environment with a large number of islands and relatively unconstrained leisure traffic around large portions of the EU.
Solution
EFFECTOR unlocks the full capabilities of maritime surveillance systems and data sharing at tactical and strategic level by introducing applied solutions for enhanced border and external security. EFFECTOR implements a multilayered data lake platform for end-to-end interoperability and data exploitation, and for the exchange of enhanced situational awareness pictures at different levels with the CISE (Common Information Sharing Environment) network operated by EMSA and EUROSUR (European Border Surveillance system) operated by FRONTEX.
Specifically, one of the main objectives was to propagate information generated by the CISE nodes with EUROSUR framework and Engineering, with the support of the EFFECTOR consortium, which successfully developed a CISE adaptor to allow FRONTEX to exchange information with the CISE nodes during the trials of the EFFECTOR project.
The project has received co-funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme - Contract No. 883374.
Read the press release "EFFECTOR workshop on Interoperability in Maritime Situational Awareness".
Specifically, one of the main objectives was to propagate information generated by the CISE nodes with EUROSUR framework and Engineering, with the support of the EFFECTOR consortium, which successfully developed a CISE adaptor to allow FRONTEX to exchange information with the CISE nodes during the trials of the EFFECTOR project.
The project has received co-funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme - Contract No. 883374.
Read the press release "EFFECTOR workshop on Interoperability in Maritime Situational Awareness".
Results
Full compliance with GDPR
Innovative knowledge extraction & data analytics
Semantic representation of knowledge
Improved collaboration with CISE & EUROSUR
Multilayered Data Lake platform
Project value
Visibility
Process performance
Innovation
Enabling Technologies
AI & Advanced Analytics
Project Team
Research & Innovation