What technologies can provide stable and resilient sensing capabilities in congested environments with high interference from digital and/or physical traffic?

Background

"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."

Next steps

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• 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.
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Please send any correspondence and questions to csa@npcc.police.uk, including ‘ARI’ in the subject heading."

Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Policing Areas of Research Interest

Related UKRI funded projects


  • Sensor Signal Processing

    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

    Why might this be relevant?

    Partially relevant as it focuses on signal processing rather than specific technologies for sensing in congested environments.

  • Signal Procssing in the Information Age

    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

    Why might this be relevant?

    Partially relevant as it discusses signal processing for multi-source sensors but does not focus on specific technologies for sensing in congested environments.

  • IMMERSE: Intelligent Mobility and Management for Enhanced Resilience and Secure Environments

    IMMERSE expands upon the successful Innovate UK project Epi-terrestrial Multi-modal Input Assimilation (EMIA-10036013) to deliver a transformative system for urban mobility, traffic optimization, and disaster management....

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: INTERACTIVE COVENTRY LIMITED

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on resilient sensing in congested environments using technologies like computer vision, federated learning, and satellite links.

  • Measuring Human Traffic Flow Across Cities using Doppler Radar

    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

  • UKCRIC - CORONA: City Observatory Research platfOrm for iNnovation and Analytics

    The CORONA project will provide the research and technical resource needed to support and unlock the research potential of the UKCRIC investment in Urban Observatories. Cities generate the vast majority of the country's...

    Funded by: EPSRC

  • IMMSATT - Insight and Management of Multimodal Unsegregated Active Travel and Transport

    During the recent COVID-19 pandemic, more people were walking and cycling as a means of transportation. For this trend to continue post-pandemic, significant measures will be necessary to improve the safety of vulnerable...

    Funded by: Innovate UK