Border control is commonly defined as the measures taken by a state or a bloc of states to monitor its borders and regulate the movement of people, animals, and goods across the border.

It is no understatement to say that the current challenges to the maintenance of border controls are enormous, and now amplified by the Covid-19 crisis.

Every day, hundreds of thousands of vehicles and cargo containers pass through national borders, requiring a substantial amount of scrutiny and human time for processing. In addition, millions of imported manufactured goods (e.g., home appliances, parts, cars, medical equipment, etc…) annually enter countries’ ports along with other bulk and break-bulk cargo. In this landscape, the strategic challenges for every area of border security (air, land, sea) cannot be addressed separately.

So how can AI solve these problems? What is the current state of affairs?

SQUADBOTIK’S IMPENETRABLE GRID

Border and customs surveillance is expensive. It is estimated the EU alone spends about €34 Billion a year in border controls. These costs are the result of the massive pool of both human and technical resources required, powered by costly and outdated paper-based processes.

The challenge for the tech companies trying to solve these problems for governments is not simply to resort to “watch and report” but to have the technology do the heavy lifting in the surveillance cycle.

Early on, our development team acknowledged the criticality of the role of data capture points to enable surveillance automation rather than simply producing data breakdowns and reports.  Our vision was to have the hardware devices fully capture, process, and actively communicate with a central command in real-time, enabling ground surveillance teams to detect any potential threat in a matter of seconds – no paperwork, no additional analysis required.

SquadBotik’s AI and ML enable a more resilient and flexible response to today’s rapidly changing technological landscape.  Better than that, our solutions can be seamlessly integrated into any existing infrastructure, for a real “plug and play” harmonization.

SquadBotik’s key highlights:

• Every single point in the grid is a detection system
• Every single point in the grid is a communication system
• Creation of a central intelligence head office
  with A.I. skills, communicating with each black box
  and with cloning capacities for “loss of computing”
  avoidance

The unique Squadbotik methodology:

• Deployed black boxes, spread across each
  detection point;
• Running under Linux/qnx OS, offering stable and
  powerful capacities;
• Rugged/IK10 and water-resistant nanocomputers.

With hardware (cameras, drones, blimps) acting as data capture points, SquadBotik delivers an impenetrable, fully automated grid that works 24/7 with little or no human supervision, dramatically increasing the success rate for threat detection and identification of contraband.

Do these security challenges sound familiar? Reach out to us today.