The 7^th of July 2005 marks a tragic date for London. That morning, a series of four suicide attacks were carried out by Islamic terrorists. The targets were three London Underground stations and the number 30 double-decker bus. 52 people were killed and over 770 injured during this horrific event.

More recent examples of attacks on public transportation include the 2016 Brussels bombings, with 35 death victims, and the less impactful Parson Green train bombing in London, which still injured 27 people. In response to these attacks, European countries made significant efforts to enhance their approach to possible acts of terrorism. Unfortunately, such threats are still active.

Early detection of these attacks within the transport network is challenging, especially in crowded areas such as metro, train, bus stations, airports, etc. Masses of innocent people navigate these areas on their daily commutes and travels, making it hard to identify key risks while maintaining a soft-touch approach to enable travel to run efficiently. One of the possibilities to support the challenge is through the development of innovations designed to detect unattended items, which malicious actors can use to carry weapons or explosives. Several research and development activities, supported by the European Union, concentrate on this topic, and one of them is the PREVENT PCP project, which identified unattended items as one of the main threats to public transport security.

Efforts to PREVENT Against Threats

PREVENT PCP focuses on augmenting security in public transport and public areas through innovative procurement of technology solutions that will allow timely automatic detection of potentially dangerous unattended items, identification and tracking of perpetrators, and an advanced crisis management system. To achieve its goals, the project relied on the Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) approach to produce innovations. This is a methodology supported by the European Commission that address the challenge of procuring innovative technologies suited to specific security needs.

Crucially, the PCP method benefits all parties involved, aiming to develop solutions that address the specific challenges outlined. The approach supports suppliers in accelerating the process of bringing scientific results to market and, importantly, ensures that taxpayer’s money is used to purchase innovative products that enhance the quality and efficiency of security systems.

While more details about PCP can be found on our website, in this text we present how PCP works in practice.

Procuring Technologies in an Innovative Way

The implementation of the PREVENT PCP project was divided into 4 phases:

• Phase 0: Preparatory Stage, consisting of the Pre-Tendering and Tendering Phases
• Phase 1: Solution Design
• Phase 2: Prototype Development
• Phase 3: Operational Validation

PREVENT PCP is built on the outcomes of commonly agreed security scenarios, addressing critical security issues and a comprehensive set of innovation needs covering both process and technology aspects. These needs were initially defined in a previous project, PREVENT CSA, where extensive preparatory steps were undertaken during its implementation.

Having established strong foundations, the PREVENT PCP team published the ‘Prior Information Notice’ and organised the ‘Open Market Consultation’ meetings and activities to validate the planned PCP process with technology providers. Also, PREVENT PCP prepared the ‘Call for Tenders’ to provide a detailed description of the tendering process, the evaluation procedure, and the criteria used to select subcontractors.

Market Involvement

In Pre-Commercial Procurement, tenderers participate in a competitive process to develop the most appropriate technological solution, with applicants filtered out through several phases.

After much preparatory work, we were finally able to open the application process for interested companies. The number of proposals received was very encouraging. There were 18 applications – with 9 sole tenders and 9 consortia. In total, 34 individual tenderers were involved, representing 8 EU countries and 1 associated EU country. After thorough analysis, the PREVENT PCP team announced the contractors awarded to compete in the first phase of the project:

• DAIMON Consortium – CS GROUP France, CERTH, XXII Group
• PreventUS A.I. – Ayvos A.S.
• Protecting Railway Transportation via Artificial Intelligence Consortium (PREVAIL) – Satways Ltd., imotion Analytics, Vicomtech
• BULL SAS – Bull SAS (Atos)
• PANOPTES Consortium – Herta Security S.L., ChapsVision, ACIC SA
• AI-Transportation Consortium – A.I. Tech srl, SAET SpA.

Having selected the contractors, PREVENT PCP entered phase 1: Solution Design. The awarded R&D providers were asked to describe their tools, provide the complete architecture and design overviews for the solutions and verify the technical, economic and organisational feasibility of their technological approach to address the PREVENT PCP challenge. A series of meetings between the project partners and contractors was arranged to help establish a detailed understanding of the solutions, and to review the requirements of the project against the contractors’ proposed systems.

Technological Solutions in Practice

Phase 2 of the PREVENT PCP: ‘Prototype Development’ was conducted with the participation of 4 qualified consortia: DAIMON, PREVAIL Consortium, BULL SAS, and PANOPTES.

This second stage of work was intense for all project partners, public buyers, and contractors participating in the PCP process. The activities included testing the algorithms at the contractors’ premises, installing and calibrating the solutions and then evaluating them. Moreover, there were numerous oral consultations along the way. Additionally, members of the Technical Management and Procurement Evaluation Committees, as well as other technical advisors, had 8 dedicated meetings with each contractor to strengthen collaboration and to help optimise the solutions’ performance.

After considering both the technical and financial aspects of the developed solutions, BULL SAS and PREVAIL teams were invited to phase 3: Operational Validation. Their solutions were deployed in several pilot sites and tested using the infrastructure of the PREVENT PCP partners.

During this phase, activities included:

• hardware delivery, such as servers and workstations,
• installations at each pilot site,
• camera calibration,
• fine-tuning tests of the solution for each pilot site and
• organisation of progress meetings.

Another important activity during phase 3 was the validation of societal acceptance, through the launch of a societal survey in each of the pilot countries.

How Did it End?

The goal of Pre-Commercial Procurement is to develop solutions to a high technology readiness level (TRL 8-9). Notably, PCP is not a process that finishes with the direct commercialisation of products. This happens when public buyers decide to conduct a follow-up Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions (PPI). PCP aim is to award a limited set of prototypes and/or test products. A follow-up PPI to cover the commercial volume of innovative solutions developed during a PCP would be subject to a new ‘Call for Tenders’.

PREVENT PCP finishes on the 31st of October 2024, and the contractors have already concluded their work. The proposed solutions were assessed positively, and there are possibilities for adoption and use in daily activities. Also, there were functionalities identified that could - and should - be improved to increase the tools’ effectiveness. Considering PREVENT is an R&D project, we foresaw this, and it is natural that there are opportunities for continued development through other actions.

Considering the limited time contractors and project partners had to implement the innovative activities, the results are encouraging. Although no decisions have been made as of yet, the public buyers are generally open for participation in future procurement processes (PPI) to acquire PREVENT PCP’s technologies; meaning this PCP initiative may still  have further impact and contribute to augmenting the security of public transport and public areas.

Do you have any questions regarding the PREVENT PCP implementation? Don’t hesitate to contact us at: contact@prevent-pcp.eu!

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PCP as a Tool to Respond to the Security Challenge in Public Transport

PREVENT PCP began in September 2021 and was designed to procure technologies that will enhance security in both public transportation and public areas. To achieve the expected results, we rely on a Pre-Commercial Procurement approach. It is an efficient and dependable method for contracting authorities to challenge market innovators through an open, transparent, and competitive process.

We successfully implemented Phase 0 “Preparatory Stage,” which consisted of pre-tendering and tendering parts of planned actions. The next step was Phase 1 “Solution Design,” focused mainly on the technical aspects of proposed technologies. Recently, the project team concluded Phase 2 “Prototype Development”. Let us explore further the activities undertaken and the practical aspects of the work.

Phase 2: Testing, Installation, Calibration, and Evaluation

As previously informed, 4 of the 6 tenderers, which participated in the first part of the PCP process, were awarded a Phase 2 contract:

• DAIMON Consortium – CS GROUP France, CERTH, XXII Group
• BULL SAS – Bull SAS (Atos)
• Protecting Railway Transportation via Artificial Intelligence Consortium (PREVAIL) – Satways Ltd., Imotion Analytics, Vicomtech
• PANOPTES Consortium – Herta Security S.L., ChapsVision, ACIC SA

The second stage of the work  was very intense for the project partners, public buyers, and contractors participating in the PCP process. Overall, the activities included testing the algorithms at the contractors’ premises, installing and calibrating the solutions in SNCF (one of the PREVENT PCP Public Buyers) premises, and then evaluating them connected to 50 cameras in Paris Gare du Nord station. The main highlights from this are:

• During the algorithms tests at the contractors’ premises, the PREVENT PCP public buyers were able to evaluate the different algorithms based on classification of categories, classification of items, association, re-identification, and tracking of the owners' features with the help of datasets recorded by all public transport operators pilots. The results were shared with the contractors, where they could see their position and performance compared to the other 3 contractors in an anonymous way.
• In August, 4 contractors installed their prototypes in SNCF premises and proceeded to calibrate the 50 selected cameras and run some tests in the station.
• In September, the SNCF team, with the help of another PREVENT PCP Public Buyer, RATP, tested the solutions by running more than 200 simulations in stations and qualifying thousands of alerts from the 4 contractors’ solutions to provide feedback to the contractors. The latter were able to return to the SNCF premises to fine-tune their prototypes before a new session of evaluation.
• In October, for the second session of evaluation, SNCF welcomed the public buyers, technical advisors, and project partners in Paris to see and test the solutions to assess their match with the project requirements.
• At the end of Phase 2, the contractors submitted the End of Phase 2 reports, which were assessed by the public buyers.

In such initiatives, effective cooperation and sufficient communication between the project representatives and external entities are crucial. Without them in place, the expected results might not meet the needs. With that in mind, there were numerous oral consultations, also during tests in SNCF premises. Moreover, the members of the Technical Management and Procurement Evaluation Committees, as well as technical advisors, had 8 dedicated meetings with each contractor in order to build the solutions together and optimise performance through the sharing of feedback.

PREVENT PCP Has Entered Its Final Phase

PREVENT PCP achieved the next milestone on February 12, this year, with Phase 3 “Operational Validation” kick-off meeting. The key information regarding this event was which consortia were qualified for the last stage of the PCP. Led by KEMEA, as the main procurer, and based on the public buyers’ evaluation that considered both technical and financial aspects of developed solutions, BULL SAS and PREVAIL teams were awarded a Phase 3 contract and were invited to participate in further works. What will the planned activities include?

The 2 contractors will optimise their solutions in SNCF premises on the 50 cameras from Phase 2 before deploying their solutions in the 7 pilot sites. The tests will be organised using the infrastructure of the PREVENT PCP partners, which are at the same time public transport operators. Thus, developed technologies will be evaluated by SNCF in Paris and Marseille, RATP in Paris, TMB in Barcelona, FGC in Barcelona, AMT in Genova, and Metropolitano de Lisboa, the operator of the Lisbon Metro.

The planned activities include delivering the hardware, such as servers and workstations, the installation at each pilot site, the camera calibration, and the tests to fine-tune the solution for each pilot site. 10 progress meetings are also planned with each contractor and the PREVENT PCP consortium to follow up on their progress and share feedback.

The other main activity for Phase 3 is the validation of societal acceptance through the launch of a societal survey in the 4 pilot countries. By means of an online large-scale population survey in the 4 pilot countries, a representative sample of 1000 people per country will be questioned on several issues: the general acceptance of the developed technology, perception of advantages and disadvantages of the technologies, knowledge of the technologies, obstacles, data access and usage, ethical or privacy issues.

Will the PCP Competition End with one Winner?

Phase 3 of the Pre-Commercial Procurement is at the same time the last stage of the process. There are 2 contractors on stage which will be developing their solutions. The goal is to bring them to a high technology readiness level (TRL 8-9) to have a product that could be used by the end-users and sold to potential customers. It means there will be multiple winners.

Public transport operators and public buyers will have on the horizon the solutions that respond to their security-related challenges. Awarded companies have already developed their technologies and know-how, and will also be able to commercialise the solutions. Finally, assuming a successful implementation of tools to detect unattended items in public transport facilities. It can result in enhanced security of citizens and fewer crisis situations in which security forces are involved.

The successful completion of the work achieved during Phase 3 will be assessed by the Technical Management and Procurement Evaluation Committees at the end of the PREVENT PCP.

Then, the PREVENT PCP Public Buyers will consider a follow-up PPI (Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions) to award a limited set of prototypes and/or test products developed during this PCP procurement (“limited follow-up PPIs”). A follow-up PPI for a commercial volume of the innovative solutions developed in this PCP procurement will be subject to a new Call for Tenders.

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The 17^th edition of the conference gathered over 800 security-related specialists from SMEs, public entities and multinational companies at the Théâtre de la Madeleine in Paris. PREVENT PCP was presented by Région SUD, a partner of the consortium, which introduced the audience with the main objectives, scope and ideas behind the PCP initiative. 

The project was assessed by a jury composed of 18 head of security of major companies, such as Air France, Carrefour, Sanofi and Sodexo. The stakes of the competition were high – victory in the category: Large-scale projects. PREVENT PCP was praised for its ambition and the seriousness of its execution. Finally, this was enough to receive the silver prize! We are very proud, considering that our rivals were e.g. AIRBUS, Naval Group and other well-known brands.

In total, 80 companies participated in Trophées Sécurité 2023. The remaining competition categories included human protection, infrastructure solutions, decision-support systems for safety and co-construction. Special awards were also given.

(Photos: Manuel Abella for Républik Sécu)

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The main focus of PREVENT PCP is the procurement of technologies that will improve security in both public transportation and public areas. To achieve expected results, we rely on a Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) approach. It is an efficient and dependable method for contracting authorities to challenge market innovators through an open, transparent, and competitive process.

At the end of 2022, the project team selected 6 Contractors composed by tech companies which entered the Solution Design Phase. They had to prepare plans covering multiple aspects related to technical issues, commercialisation, innovation and data management, ethics, risk management, GDPR and IPRs management plan. After the mentioned stage, the Call off for Prototype Development Phase was launched. After a thorough evaluation process, 4 tenderers were awarded with a contract:

• DAIMON Consortium – CS GROUP France, CERTH, XXII Group
• PREVAIL Consortium– Satways Ltd., Imotion Analytics, Vicomtech
• BULL SAS – Bull SAS (Atos)
• PANOPTES Consortium – Herta Security S.L., ChapsVision, ACIC SA

One of the next steps were above-mentioned visits, which were organised in July at the Contractors premises. The main reason was to test algorithms that are developed under the PCP process. They should be capable to respond to the main challenges identified by PREVENT PCP: unattended items identification and tracking of its owners.

These tests helped assess the progress of the current phase. We evaluated how the Contractors implemented multiple features, such as classification, association, re-identification, unattended item alerts and tracking of the owners. The project team provided feedback that will be considered before the installation of the solutions in SNCF premises in August. The practical evaluation of the prototypes, installed and connected to a limited number of SNCF cameras in Paris Nord station is planned for September and October 2023.

During the visits, the PREVENT PCP Consortium used datasets recorded with volunteers to test the algorithms. The results are very interesting and complement comments provided to the Contractors during the last Progress Meetings.

Check out our website and social media channels for updates. Soon we will publish news about both the practical tests of the technology prototypes and other activities currently undertaken by the PREVENT PCP team.

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They will allow timely automatic detection of potentially dangerous unattended items, identification and tracking of perpetrators, and will include an advanced crisis management system. The start of Phase 2 wasn’t the only objective of the event. Additionally, during the plenary meeting we summarised the current progress of specific Work Packages and provided the members of the User Observatory Group with an update on the PCP process.

The Call off for Phase 2 was launched on April 19, 2023. The deadline for submitting offers was May 8. All five successful Contractors of the Phase 1 submitted their offers. They were evaluated by the KEMEA Procurement Board, Technical Management Committee and Procurement Evaluation Committee. Finally, four tenderers were awarded a Phase 2 contract:

• DAIMON Consortium – CS GROUP France, CERTH, XXII Group
• Protecting Railway Transportation via Artificial Intelligence Consortium – Satways Ltd., Imotion Analytics, Vicomtech
• BULL SAS – Bull SAS (Atos)
• PANOPTES Consortium – Herta Security S.L., ChapsVision, ACIC SA

The Prototype Development Phase (Phase 2) will last 7 months. The Phase 2 Contractors will install their Prototypes in the SNCF controlled lab environment, directly connected to 50 cameras from the real CCTV system of Paris Nord Station. The goal is to measure and verify the technical performance of each solution in real conditions (Factory Acceptance Test), and their readiness for a pre-operational deployment.

During Phase 2, the Public Buyers will request from the contractors a series of deliverables in order to evaluate their progress based on a predefined set of criteria. On completion of Phase 2, the R&D providers will each deliver the End of Phase 2 deliverables requested by the Consortium, describing the performed activities and the obtained results of Phase 2, the IPR, ethics and security handling and an updated business/commercialisation plan.

If it sounds interesting to you, follow the PREVENT PCP online channels on LinkedIn & Twitter to stay updated!

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1. What is the current status of the PCP process undertaken by PREVENT PCP?

We have selected six Contractors and over eighteen proposals to enter Phase 1 (Solution Design) after the launch of the tender last year. During this phase, we have organized bi-weekly meetings with Contractors.

During those sessions, specialists worked on the detailed requirements and the building of the solutions that could meet PREVENT PCP challenges, such as detection features, tracking of the owner features, and crisis management, as well as technical, hardware, and security features. Those meetings helped the PREVENT PCP consortium and the Contractors to design the future solution. To conclude Phase 1, Contractors submitted their “End of Phase 1” reports, which were assessed by the TMC members.

2. Which aspects were taken into account when evaluating applications?

The TMC has evaluated multiple aspects:

• The Contractor's Technical Plan (how they address our requirements, their solution proposal, etc.),
• The updated commercialization plan (Venture Capital engagement, market analysis),
• The updated innovation plan,
• The updated data management plan,
• The ethics compliance,
• The risk management plan for Ethical,
• GDPR-related issues and the IPRs management plan.

3. Which Consortia were qualified for the next stage of work?

The assessment of Phase 1 had two goals. The first one was to evaluate the progress of the Contractors’ work in Phase 1 (satisfactory work). The second objective was to define if the contractors had successfully completed Phase 1, and are eligible for Phase 2 tender.

After the TMC evaluation and PEC approbation, out of six contractors, five were selected to be eligible for the Phase 2 tender. Those were the DAIMON Consortium, Protecting Railway Transportation via Artificial Intelligence Consortium, BULL SAS Atos, PANOPTES Consortium, and AI-Transportation Consortium.

4. What was the main challenge faced by the project team until now?

The PREVENT PCP project gathers 22 partners, including 11 Public Buyers. As a part of Phase 3, the pilots will take place in four countries with six Public Transport Operators (PTO) and seven pilot sites.

Thus, one of the main challenges was to define the common needs and requirements for the future solution, as well as the functional and technical needs, hardware and cybersecurity requirements, and specificities of the environment of the 6 PTOs involved in the pilots. This challenge impacted the Contractors as well. They had to adapt their solutions, hardware, and implementation plans to the number of cameras, image quality, and the technical environment of each PTO. The involvement of four different countries also led to a legal framework analysis per country, to define what is authorized by the national laws.

5. The PCP works are still ongoing. However, did the project team draw any conclusions regarding the usefulness of the PCP process in the context of public buyers’ needs?

The 3-year PREVENT PCP project is halfway through, and we have some intermediate conclusions regarding the PCP process. Phase 1 dedicated to Solution Design, helped in understanding the solutions by facing the requirements of the projects to the Contractors’ solutions and proposals.

The discussions with the Contractors allowed the Public Buyers to have a first view of several possible solutions with mock-ups, and to be convinced (or not) about their capabilities to develop the solution in the following phases. Hence, the first PCP phase was interesting for Public Buyers to concretely confront their needs for the R&D capabilities on the market. So, even at this early stage of the project, the benefits of the PCP process for Public Buyers are important.

6. What are the next steps?

Five Contractors have submitted their offer for the Call-off for Phase 2, and by the end of May, TMC members will evaluate their technical offers. Selected Contractors will enter Phase 2 dedicated to the prototype development, installation of the solutions in SNCF premises, and prototype evaluation. This phase is a challenge for the PREVENT PCP consortium and the Contractors, who will develop their solutions based on the design confirmed in Phase 1. The prototypes will be installed and connected to real cameras of Paris Nord station (SNCF) and provide the first view of the successful implementation of the solutions during two months of technical tests. In 2024, as a part of Phase 3 of the PCP, the best prototypes will be operationally tested in four countries: France, Spain, Italy, and Portugal.

Armand Raudin is the Head of the Video & Innovation Program in the SNCF Security Directorate. Within PREVENT PCP project, he plays the role of the Chairman of the Technical Management Committee. Over the last few years, he conducted experiments on video analytics. He went through many use cases that led him to better understand the technologies and the maturity of the market.

* TMC gathers 11 representatives of PREVENT PCP Public Buyers. Its role is to assist the Procurement Evaluation Committee (PEC) activities for all the technical aspects of the project. The TMC reviews the documentation submitted by the contractors within all PCP phases, verifies the compliance of the products with the technical requirements, expresses comments and, taking into account the remarks of the industry and finally proposes to the PEC the acceptance or the rejection of the deliverables submitted by the contractors. The TMC Chairman consolidates the partners opinions and ratings, and lead the technical discussions with TMC members.

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We have already presented the main assumptions of applications submitted by most of the awarded Contractors. The last of them is the AI-Transportation Consortium. The works are carried out by A.I. Tech srl, SAET SpA. How are they going to respond to the challenges identified by the PREVENT team? 

AI-Transportation proposed a modular solution composed of different modules for people / item detection & tracking, behaviour analysis, people re-identification and crisis management. The technology will be realized using the software framework of A.I. Tech that have been extended and consolidated over the years and allows to run the analytics software modules on more than 20 hardware platforms.

Moreover, using the framework will make the analytics modules able to send alarms and notifications using the most common standard network protocols (including MQTT, HTTP and ModBUS/TCP) and with more than 10 Video Management Systems.

The proposed solutions will still be compliant with GDPR and will not require the use of external cloud services, allowing the customer to decide where to deploy each component of the system, from the video analytics application to the crisis management and where to store the data.

At least four of the six Consortia competing in the Solution Design phase will be qualified to the next stage, during which the Contractors will develop a first prototype of a technology. To learn more about the PCP approach, please visit this subpage. 

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We are constantly making progress in our work and the first phase of the pre-commercial procurement, during which the Contractors work on solutions design. Among six of them, there is a solution that is being developed by the PANOPTES Consortium. It consists of the following partners: Herta Security S.L., ChapsVision and ACIC SA.

PANOPTES implements the state of the art in artificial intelligence-assisted video surveillance, and addresses the most demanded challenges in crowded public spaces. The environment to be monitored is one of the most challenging spaces, with multiple entrances and exits, and massive arrival of passengers.

The purpose of PANOPTES is the control and early detection of security threats, alerting of situations identified as dangerous. Abandonment of bulky objects inside trains, in passenger transit areas or identification of criminals and wanted terrorists can create some risks that can be mitigated by the proposed solution.

It will have a positive impact and greatly increase the security of train stations and similar spaces. In addition, the tracking of forgotten objects will be reported along with photographs.

At least four of the six Consortia competing in the Solution Design phase will be qualified to the next stage, during which the Contractors will develop a first prototype of a technology. To learn more about the PCP approach, please visit this subpage. 

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The goal is to create new solutions for a technologically demanding mid- to long-term challenge. That is in the public interest and necessitates new research and development. The next Contractor developing a solution within the PCP process is Atos which describes its ideas as follows.

Nowadays, the detection of an unattended item still represents an important challenge for Public Transport Operators (PTOs) and has serious consequences on the security of people, goods and the disruption of the traffic, thus leading to delays in transportation and affects the security of people and the economy.

The current procedures to respond to such threats are very costly, time-consuming and need to be optimized. PREVENT aims to address this challenge via Video Intelligence by:

• Improving the security of goods and people in particular by enabling an earlier detection of any unattended item; and ending of the procedure in the first 15 minutes by locating the owner
• Limiting traffic disruption 
• Improving the efficiency of the management of the PTO security missions

The expected solution will give the PTOs an enhanced security awareness through:

• Timely automatic detection of potentially dangerous unattended items in Public Transport Infrastructure and in public areas in the vicinity
• Identification and tracking of perpetrators
• Integration/interoperability of the technology in standard crisis management systems and Video Management System (VMS)

Learn more on Atos Computer Vision Platform.

At least four of the six Consortia competing in the Solution Design phase will be qualified to the next stage, during which the Contractors will develop a first prototype of a technology. To learn more about the PCP approach, please visit this subpage. 

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The PCP procedure that is undertaken within the project is about competition between six Contractors. Each of them proposed specific ideas of technologies augmenting the security in public transport. This time we encourage you to familiarise yourself with the concept of the Protecting Railway Transportation via Artificial Intelligence Consortium formed by Satways Ltd., imotion Analytics and Vicomtec.

PREVAIL will provide a novel solution for privacy-preserving, secure and controlled detection as well as monitoring of unattended items in public transportation organisations. The system will be materialized through an innovative combination of video analytics and converged security incident management system.

It will also enable its stakeholders (i.e., technical personnel, law enforcement, PTO, security personnel) to leverage the potential of video data analytics (monitoring of suspicious behaviour, extracting information on the suspicious events, sharing critical event analysis, information, and insights) within a secure and trusted environment. The system will support the operational and organisational aspects related to the privacy and legal requirements in Europe.

The system will be materialized through an innovative combination of video analytics and converged security incident management system, while enabling its stakeholders (i.e., technical personnel, law enforcement, PTO, security personnel) to leverage the potential of video data analytics (monitoring of suspicious behavior, extracting information on the suspicious events, sharing critical event analysis, information, and insights) within a secure and trusted environment, supporting the operational and organisational aspects related to the European privacy and European legal requirements.

The final PREVAIL system will provide scalable deployment of resources to support the dynamic demands of the different system components and will support technical and legal guarantees for protecting the privacy of the citizens.

At least four of the six Consortia competing in the Solution Design phase will be qualified to the next stage, during which the Contractors will develop a first prototype of a technology. To learn more about the PCP approach, please visit this subpage. 

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