ROGID

During the project period, the French video analytics firm Foxstream (FS) and the European robotics company Drone Volt (DV) developed a robot guard solution for an airport in Denmark. Having an airport as an end–user in the project, ROGID addressed specifically challenge 4: “Development of solutions to detect and locate any intruders that had managed to penetrate the perimeter protection and barriers to block intrusions.” The airport was, and still is, interested in testing robots as part of their security operations and wanted robots to detect intruders on the perimeter. They hope to eventually replace manual perimeter patrols by car with robots because they believe a robotic solution would be more effective in spotting intruders at night than human guards due to vision impairments. A robotic solution would also have less negative impact on the environment.

As the robot was eventually to operate at night, FS and DV suggested developing a solution using thermal imaging technology alongside RGB–based imaging. Furthermore, the solution would patrol automatically the perimeter of the airport and stream live video to a Security Operations Center (SOC) that monitored all the other cameras. Moreover, the solution would send alarms to the SOC if any human intruder was detected. The SOC employees would also have the opportunity to manually control the robot.