Case Study

ODYSSEUS

Unobtrusive Technologies for Secure and Seamless Border Crossing for Travel Facilitation

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What is ODYSSEUS?

ODYSSEUS aims to enable citizens to cross borders seamlessly without stopping, while reducing the workload and enhancing the productivity of Border Guard Authorities. The platform will provide detailed risk analysis for targeted inspections and leverage digital technology for secure, non-stop border crossings. It will equip authorities with advanced tools for identity verification and remote screening of vehicles, luggage, and cargo using X-ray scanners and UAVs with thermal and high-resolution cameras. Citizens will cross borders using their smartphones and continuous identity verification, eliminating long delays and interventions.

Our role

Quadible will offer the security of the Mobile Passport introduced by the ODYSSEUS project, by introducing a novel mechanism based on user continuous behavioural authentication.

Objectives

The BehavAuth objectives are summarised into:

  • Design and Develop a unifying platform that enables seamless, fully non-stop border crossing in a highly secure manner.
  • Advance the identification and control capabilities of Border Authorities through robust and reliable identity verification mechanisms.
  • Improve border control checks without stopping cargos and vehicles through safe, unobtrusive and portable screening.
  • Validate the effectiveness of the proposed ODYSSEUS platform through its demonstration in real-life environments.
  • Speed up the rapid uptake by relevant security stakeholders of the ODYSSEUS innovations through wide communication, scientific dissemination and targeted commercial exploitation activities coupled with contributions to relevant standardisation bodies.

Benefits to the experience of border crossing for travelers and border authorities’ staff

ODYSSEUS intends to optimize the safety of customs and supply chain by improving the prevention, detection, deterrence, and fight against crime involving goods flows across EU external border crossing points and through the supply chain, reducing disruption to trade flows.
An innovative luggage and baggage check will allow citizens’ vehicles and cargo vessels to be remotely checked for goods on the land border, speeding up border check processes in a safe and trustworthy manner.

The ODYSSEUS platform will run in both land and water environments, in a road, in a port, and in a train.

ODYSSEUS will be tested, evaluated, and showcased in three real operational scenarios.

Consortium

ACTIVAGE project comprises a large consortium of 49 partners distributed across Europe including SMEs, industrial partners, research entities, public entities, academic institutes and others.

Key partners that Quadible is collaborating with are:

  • Medtronic, which is the Project Coordinator and responsible for the management and coordination of the project activities.
  • Samsung, handling the integration with the Leeds UK deployment site as well as technical coordination of trials.
  • Leeds City Council, supporting the adoption of the ACTIVAGE framework from the end-users including our behavioural authentication.