Resumen
The creation of the Schengen area has been one of the major achievements of the EU. However, this agreement requires
countries to cooperate tightly in order to keep a high level of security at their internal borders, as well as to share the
responsibility of managing external borders. Such a variety of borders (land, sea and air) and current challenges requires a
consistent approach to border surveillance, based on a plethora of heterogeneous assets. These can be manned or
unmanned, ranging from sensors (optical, radar, IR) to unmanned platforms (UAV, UGV, USV or UUV), and need to be
combined to offer an integrated situational picture of the area under surveillance and of their location. In order to effectively
control their operation and manage the large amounts of data collected by them, new approaches for command and control
need to be considered, allowing efficient interaction between the operator and the different assets in the field. CAMELOT
proposes to develop and demonstrate different advanced command and control service modules for multiple platform
domains, based on a SOA architecture that specifies internal and external interfaces, allowing the development of a modular
and scalable command and control station, customisable to the user needs. This architecture can be based on results of
previous studies and work or open architectures that may prove more suitable and the interfaces can take advantage of the
standardisation work that has been done already. After the definition, CAMELOT partners will prototype service modules
according to their expertise, background individual technologies and practitioner needs. These will be integrated
progressively in specific testing along the project. This prototype development approach will culminate in 2 final
demonstrations involving end users and relevant stakeholders, to achieve a maturity of TRL6 (for most individual
technologies supporting the functionalities for border surveillance) and an IRL of 7 for CAMELOT.
