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EU "SMART BORDERS"?: Frontex Call for Tender: “Aerostats and Rapid Deployment Unattended Ground Sensor systems for Land border surveillance”

01 July 2011

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EU "SMART BORDERS"?: Frontex Call for Tender: “Aerostats and Rapid Deployment Unattended Ground Sensor systems for Land border surveillance” (pdf) and Talos (link):

"The project is aimed at designing, implementing and field-testing a prototype of adaptable and transportable border surveillance system (Transportable Adaptable Patrol for Land Border Surveillance - TALOS).

Like existing surveillance systems, TALOS is going to use sensors allowing to detect people, vehicles and hazardous substances, crossing the unregulated land border. Innovative concept behind the project is that the sensors will be carried by unmanned vehicles having a high degree of autonomy.

This will give TALOS the advantage of cost effectiveness and surveillance capabilities not available to conventional systems based on static sensors.

TALOS project consortium is formed of experienced research teams from industry, research and academia from Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Israel, Poland, Romania, Spain and Turkey."

See also: The robot armies at our borders by Ben Hayes (Neoconopticon, link)

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