Report

Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Smart-Trust (Smart Trust: Secure Mobile ID for Trusted Smart Borders)

Teaser

Many facets of life often present us with a need to compromise functionality for security. Air travel is no exception and, especially since the 9/11 attacks, and even more so in the last decade with multiple terrorist attacks in European airports and the migrant crisis, Europe...

Summary

Many facets of life often present us with a need to compromise functionality for security. Air travel is no exception and, especially since the 9/11 attacks, and even more so in the last decade with multiple terrorist attacks in European airports and the migrant crisis, Europe and the world have lived a non-optimal compromise between security and functionality.

Border checks have become very time-consuming and constraining, especially for travelers crossing EU borders on a regular basis. According to EU-Lisa , it is expected that by 2025 the number of travelers from non-EU countries crossing the external borders of the Schengen area will go from 190 million in 2014 to 300 million in 2025.

Furthermore, air travel is witnessing tremendous growth. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) expects 7.2 billion passengers to travel in 2035, nearly doubling the 3.8 billions of air travelers in 2016 . In less than 20 years, the number of people flying in a year will equal the total earth population.

For airports, airlines and governments it is all about increasing throughput and passenger experience while improving both passenger experience and security.

The challenge here is essentially to fight terrorism, crime and illegal trafficking, by strengthening security through border management and risk management, and improving cyber-security of identity mechanisms, while ensuring privacy and freedom of citizens as well as standardization and interoperability of security systems across Europe.

More specifically, this challenge can be defined as creating a new form of identity verification which addresses the following challenges:

1. Security – How can we improve the overall security of citizens through enhanced forms of identity?
2. Seamlessness – How can we make identity verification of passengers and citizens seamless?
3. Security and Seamlessness – How can we reconcile security and user experience and improve both at the same time?
4. Risk Management – How can we improve the current risk management platforms?
5. Privacy – How can we ensure the privacy of citizens while managing such risks?
6. Low-Cost – How can governments have access to cheaper and more secure forms of identity?
7. Interoperability – How can we create a solution which overcomes all the above challenges and still be fully interoperable with existing systems on the market?

The overall objectives are:

1. To research, design and develop fundamental algorithms and protocols to securely virtualize ID documents, model trust in sequences of ID transactions, business rule workflow management and risk assessment, all ready to be integrated into the Smart-Trust platform.
2. To boost security and seamlessness at three selected pilot airports/borders and to improve airport, airlines and border police business performance by introducing new services, improving performance, reducing costs, and growing their business, as measured by well-defined KPIs, in a refactorable fashion that is easily reusable by similar stakeholders.
3. To develop a multi-faceted, effective dissemination of Smart-Trust results to the research and industrial community and to pave the way to effective IPR management and market exploitation through appropriate business models and an open community approach.

Work performed

In the first year Smart-Trust achieved the following results:

1. Research and Development

The project team has created a first version of the mobile ID framework and underlying platform, including a virtualized passport in the mobile phone which can proactively communicate with an e-gate, which in turn can be used for border control, security checkpoint or boarding.

2. Pilots

The mobile ID concept has been tested in (1) internal pilots with hundreds of people, yielding thousands of individual tests, and the seamless flow concept (excluding border) has been tested in pilots in one major international airport.

3. Dissemination and Exploitation

The project team has created impressive awareness through over 15 industrial events and has created a project website and engaging social network pages. A Marketing Plan was produced detailing the go-to-market strategy, business models and pricing approach.

Final results

By the end of the project we expect to have improved the security of airports and borders while improving flow and facilitation at all checkpoints and ensuring citizens\' privacy: Secure, Seamless and Privacy-Preserving traveling all in one brand new technological enabler -- Mobile ID.

Website & more info

More info: http://smarttrust-project.eu/wp/.