SECTRONIC

"Security System for Maritime Infrastructures, Ports and Coastal zones"

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The SECTRONIC initiative addresses observation and protection of critical maritime infrastructures; Passenger and goods transport, Energy supply, and Port infrastructures. All accessible means of observation (offshore, onshore, air, space) of those infrastructures are exchanged via an onshore control center. The end-users themselves or permitted third-parties can access a composite of infrastructure observations in real-time. The end-users will be able to protect the infrastructure by non-lethal means in the scenario of a security concerned situation. The proposed system is a 24h small area surveillance system that is designed to be used on any ship, platform, container/oil/gas terminal or harbour. The initiative is an end-users driven R&D activity. The end-users represent the major market player in each of the three infrastructures: Passenger transport, Energy production, Energy transport, Commercial ports and Combined military/commercial ports. They have requested better security as they have direct relation and responsibility towards passengers & infrastructure, and are actively involved in the customization, testing, calibration, and validation activates ensuring fulfillment of their aspirations of protecting their high-value maritime assets. The R&D partners represents SMEs (MARSS, ACS, NURC, UNIRESEARCH), university (Chalmers University of Technology), Defense Research Institutes (FFI, NURC) and a classification society (DNV).'

Introduzione (Teaser)

EU-funded scientists are developing a new smart security system that can be installed on a ship bridge or in port control rooms. Early threat detection is crucial for ensuring the safety of Europe's ports.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

Nowadays, piracy incidents at sea are alarmingly increasing worldwide. State-of-the-art on-board observation technologies are not able to accurately assess a security threat. For example, an object approaching a ship cannot be automatically detected, characterised and tracked to determine whether it is a potential intruder or a friendly small vessel.

The EU-funded project 'Security system for maritime infrastructures, ports and coastal zones' (http://www.sectronic.eu/ (SECTRONIC)) aims to design an effective early warning system to minimise risks associated with acts of piracy and terrorism. This will help better protect maritime infrastructures such as ports, passenger transport and energy supply.

For better spatial imaging, the system will combine various observation technologies. These include radar, sonar and Earth observation (EO) satellite systems.

This early warning system will accurately and automatically observe, characterise and track objects of significance in a 360-degree radius around the marine infrastructure. It will be applicable above and below the water surface, 24 hours a day and in all weather conditions by means of short-range (sonars, radars, infrared cameras) and long-range equipment (EO satellites, coast stations).

The focus is on providing a system that does not require continuous human operation and has an intuitive, user-friendly human interface.

The system should also reliably raise alarms in identified situations.

To assess its effectiveness, a number of user-defined scenarios were considered. SECTRONIC systems were successfully installed in ports for a one-year operational evaluation period.

Project partners developed and optimised metocean models and algorithms. To validate the recommended algorithms, five parameters for wind, current, temperature, ice concentration and ice drift on sea surface were considered. Furthermore, a quantitative vulnerability reduction metric was developed for assessing the benefit of using non-lethal response technologies. This metric was applied to a single device as well as a combination of devices in the SECTRONIC scenarios.

Future work includes further optimisation of the false alarm rate and night vision capability. To further enhance operators' decision making, the system should be integrated with appropriately scaled electronic chart display and information systems.