ARGOS Consortium Kick-off Meeting in Madrid

ARGOS consortium is composed of 13 partners from 7 different countries with a combination of technical and research skills, industrial presence and relevant current products. The project is coordinated by everis and Aratos Technologies, Athena GS3 Security Implementations, Center for Security Studies (Kemea), VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, HI-Iberia Engineering Group, Infitheon Technologies, the IT Laborotory of Research and Education in Athens, Mira Telecom, Thales Services and the Charles de Praga University also participate with the ARGOS consortium. In addition, the Port Authority of Gijón and the Demokritos National Center for Scientific Research have collaborated in the project, as end users of this type of security solution.

The ARGOS Consortium

The ARGOS Consortium covers the entire value chain and includes all the expertise required for the successful execution of the project. Partners are all well-established and experienced organisations with a wide range of capabilities, making the Consortium stronger and more self-sufficient.

ARGOS Disseminaton Plan

A Dissemination Plan is necessary to build awareness of a project results and maximize its commercial exploitation potential. A project cannot be considered to have had real impact if there is no dissemination of its results beyond the boundaries of the project itself. The objective of this Dissemination Plan is to lay down the foundations for effective external communication of the ARGOS solution and the potential benefits to interested stakeholders at an international level, focusing primarily in Europe.

During this document we are going to develop the dissemination strategy to be followed during the entire project making clear the objectives for the dissemination plan, the messages to be delivered, the target audience for each message and the list of activities to perform. To evaluate the effect and impact for each of the activities a set of success indicators or KPIs will be defined.

ARGOS Main Objectives

ARGOS will allow end-users the possibility to deploy the solution beyond the actual perimeter of the CI, extending the “security zone” beyond the critical perimeter and defining an early warning area that will provide the Critical Infrastructures with the capabilities to enhance their capacity of monitor, deter and respond to a potential threat. The inputs of this non-intrusive multimodal network of sensors will all be simultaneously evaluated and cross-checked in order to minimize false alarms, using data mining to account for correlations and interdependencies. Also the system will implement a “guided learning” methodology letting the operator teach the engine that an alarm is true or false, so it will “learn” this information and improve progressively its performance and the rate of false alarms.

Welcome to ARGOS Blog!

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Welcome to ARGOS Project Blog.

ARGOS is a multimodal early warning security solution for Critical Infrastructures focused on privacy respect, low consumption technologies and detection algorithms based in data fusion and data mining smart engines.

Is a well suited solution for remote semi-urban or non-urban environments where energy is not always available since is using energy efficient algorithm for data processing, low energy communications, self-powered networks of sensors, sleeping mode for video sensors and energy-efficient microelectronics. These same characteristics also make ARGOS a suited solution for facilities that stretch over hundreds of kilometres where no security personnel are available.