"Surveillance and sensing is the ability to lawfully monitor and collect data from people, activity, movements, behaviours, objects and data overtly and covertly.
We are interested in how policing can make use of, and respond to, the rapid developments in sensor technologies and the increasingly diverse data emerging from our digital lives. We seek to both understand new opportunities for evidence and intelligence gathering, as well as the new crime possibilities these developments create so that we can respond. The examples of interest include ‘lab in a box’ technologies, use of novel data sources such as advertising technology, the use of novel millimetric wave sensing to identify hidden objects, and the use of low orbit satellite to augment existing sensing capabilities. We are particularly interested in resilient sensing in congested environments."
"We welcome your engagement with our ARIs in the following ways:
• If you have evidence that completely or partly supports or answers one of our ARIs, we invite you to share that with us. For any ongoing research relevant to policing and crime reduction, we encourage you to register your research on the College of Policing’s research projects map, which has been designed to promote collaboration and support requests for participants.
• If you are, or plan to be, carrying out research that relates to one of our ARIs, we’d like to hear about it. While we cannot respond to speculative approaches for research funding, we will where possible act to support your ambitions, including finding you policing partners where possible.
• If you are submitting a funding or grant application that aligns with one of our ARIs, we hope that referencing policing’s ARIs will help to strengthen your case for the possible public impact of the research.
• We will use the ARI document to structure our academic engagement, prioritise events and build new connections with external partners. We will be using our ARIs in our engagement with UKRI, and we will publish any opportunities for funding via our website https://science.police.uk/
Please send any correspondence and questions to csa@npcc.police.uk, including ‘ARI’ in the subject heading."
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
The fundamental challenges for signal processing are: how best to sense; how to distribute the processing and communication of the data within the network to maximize performance and minimize cost; how to analyze it to e...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: Heriot-Watt University
Partially relevant as it focuses on signal processing rather than specific technologies for sensing in congested environments.
Persistent real-time, multi-sensor, multi-modal surveillance capabilities will be at the core of the future operating environment for the Ministry of Defence; such techniques will also be a core technology in modern soci...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University of Edinburgh
Partially relevant as it discusses signal processing for multi-source sensors but does not focus on specific technologies for sensing in congested environments.
The project is a feasibility study to assess to viability of various low cost motion detection modules embedded in small easily deployable smart sensors as a means to anonymously and accurately monitor crowd flow and mea...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: EVOLUTION-X LTD
Partially relevant as it focuses on measuring human traffic flow using Doppler radar, which is related to sensing in congested environments.