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Artificial Intelligence based Virtual Control Room for the Arctic (AI-ARC)

Project description

AI-based platform set to enhance the safety and security of the Arctic

It is expected that in the years to come marine traffic to the Arctic will increase. For practitioners such as coast guards, this can present key challenges to ensuring the safety and security of all actors in the area. Addressing this, the EU-funded AI-ARC project aims to develop the Virtual Control Room (VCR), a novel, user-friendly and robust system based on artificial intelligence that can provide a situational picture in the Arctic Ocean region. The VCR will aid decision-making and communication in the area as well as boost maritime safety. The information-exchange platform can also be used by private operators.

Objective

The AI-ARC proposal presents a highly innovative and user-friendly artificial intelligence (AI) based platform known as the Virtual Control Room (VCR). Due to the vast amounts of information collected the potential for information overload is real. This reality can complicate the operational picture; reduce situational awareness and often results in delayed and impaired decision-making. On the other hand, areas such as the Arctic Sea suffer from a lack of communication, surveillance data and rescue assets and without action taken to address these vulnerabilities, the consequences are potentially dramatic in terms of accidents, pollution, border infringements and criminal activities.
The AI-ARC VCR supports all these challenges by applying AI, machine-learning and virtual reality (VR) technologies to filter numerous validated and statistical data streams and databases to a user-friendly interface. The VCR improves situational awareness by assisting end users to customize a “smart” operational picture. The VCR will permit users to specify their preferences in terms of threat levels, abnormal behavior, interoperability and risk management by flagging detected anomalies with confidence and providing threat or risk levels according to a predefined model based on user preferences. This means that users can create awareness for their own purposes that reflects their needs without increasing their workload.

AI-ARC‘s principal objectives align fully with the H2020 BES-SU-open, and are of crucial relevance to it. The Virtual Control Room (VCR) has the power to greatly improve maritime situational awareness, decision-making, communication, available rescue resources, and thus the safety of all maritime actors, particularly in the Arctic Sea. Furthermore, the enhanced communication and collaboration provided by AI ARC’s innovative technology encourages, and enables further development of symbiotic services and fosters much needed Arctic cooperation.

Call for proposal

H2020-SU-SEC-2018-2019-2020

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Sub call

H2020-SU-SEC-2020

Coordinator

LAUREA-AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY
Net EU contribution
€ 882 851,05
Address
RATATIE 22
01300 Vantaa
Finland

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Region
Manner-Suomi Helsinki-Uusimaa Helsinki-Uusimaa
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Total cost
€ 882 851,05

Participants (22)