ARGOS presentation in EUCONCIP Conference in Rome

The ARGOS project was invited and presented by KEMEA the 20th of October 2015 in context of the EUCONCIP Conference in Rome to a focused group of European projects dealing with various aspects of security. EUCONCIP (European Cooperation Network on Critical Infrastructure Protection) is an ECDG Home Affair funded project, under the Prevention, Preparedness and Consequence Management of Terrorism and other Security-related Risks program (CIPS).

ARGOS project has been introduced to Energy Infrastructure Security Network

The dissemination activities within the ARGOS project are being carried out with a high intensity as the project is getting closer to its final point. The Charles University in Prague is also participating in dissemination of the project outcomes, partly through its own conferences and workshops, partly through guest presentations at externaly organized events. The latter was the case on October 8-9, 2015, when Libor Stejskal from Center for Security Policy, Charles University in Prague, took advantage of being invited to the annual meeting of the Energy Infrastructure Security Network (EISN), which was to take place in Budapest, Hungary.

Data Mining by Clustering

Clustering is one of the most used techniques in the Data Mining field. Its objective, in ARGOS project, is to help analyzing existing data by subdividing these data into a small number of clusters or (groups) where the events inside any specific cluster are very similar to each other and very dissimilar to the events of the other clusters.

As a result of the clustering process, several important information will be obtained among which two major ones can be quoted:

2nd ARGOS Field Trial Athens

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ARGOS Publication

Wake-up Mode Camera System to Detect Unauthorized Persons and Vehicles. 

Traditional detection systems are usually based on one master camera which detects and processes information and gives alarm if unauthorized object are detected.

They can be power consuming due to heavy image processing algorithms and must therefore be installed near stationary power sources

ƒThe target of the implementation is to provide detection system to wide areas and facilities i.e. gas, oil pipe lines and large factories where monitoring is needed on wide area and stationary power source is not available.

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ARGOS Athens Integration Meeting

The ARGOS FP7 Project Athens Integration meeting was successfully organized on the 20^th of July 2015 NCSRD “Demokritos” premises, where the second Field Trial of the project will take place in December 2015.  

The project partners made a second survey of the test site and defined the details concerning the positioning of the ARGOS equipment according to the scenario of the project’s second field trial. The demonstration plan was presented to the security personnel of the NCSRD facility and arrangements were made regarding the use of the site during the demo. Moreover, several technical aspects of the proper usage of the equipment of ARGOS during the trial were discussed in detail on site, in order to assure to the utmost degree, a successful demonstration.

ARGOS TransGaz Trial

The ARGOS FP7 Project successfully organized the 1^st Field Trial in Bucharest, Romania deploying the CI protection solution under development at the premises of the Romanian company TransGaz. The system testing and demonstration in a properly designed field trial took place between 22^nd and 25^th of June 2015. The trial was attended by several End Users originating from Romania as well by critical infrastructure protection operators and security experts invited from different EU countries.  The scenarios used during the trial dealt with several different types of attacks against a gas plant or installations, in this case the TransGaz facility in the outskirt of Bucharest. For this purpose a mesh network of different types of sensors including vibration and video sensors, as well as Wake-up Cameras were deployed in a buffer zone outside the perimeter of the facility in order to extend the protection of the critical infrastructure (distribution station, gas pipeline) beyond its perimeter from potential intruders.