Objective
Border security is one of the key security challenges to be taken up by Europe in the following years. In particular, the deployment of practical efficient means to detect hidden persons and illegal substances at border crossing points is instrumental in avoiding terrorism, human trafficking or smuggling.
The DOGGIES project aims at demonstrating (1) an operational movable stand alone sensor for an efficient detection of hidden persons, drugs & explosives, (2) the potential adaptation of this solution for the detection of a much wider range of illegal substances.
The project addresses trace detection: it relies on the combination of two technologies based on completely different physical principles, therefore qualified as “orthogonal”:
- Mid-Infrared spectroscopy technology, based on photoacoustic detection, which appears as the most powerful and promising to detect a very wide range of volatile organic compounds (VOCs); developments within DOGGIES will mainly target the demonstration of a widely tuneable integrated MIR source coupled with a miniature photo-acoustic cell;
- Ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) technology, more mature, as mentioned above; developments within DOGGIES will mainly target the use of non radio-active ionisation source.
One of the main operational challenges is to provide reliable detection in real environments, in particular with the presence of “interferents”. It is expected that the use of specific pre-concentrators on one hand, and the combination of the signal emerging from these “orthogonal technologies” by advanced software on the other hand will improve the detection reliability.
The Consortium is composed of 14 partners from 5 EU countries, including 2 End-Users; the project activities will cover basic studies in physics and chemistry, as well as sensor engineering and field tests.
Fields of science
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical transitionsterrorism
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryvolatile organic compounds
- social scienceslawhuman rightshuman rights violationshuman trafficking
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesopticsspectroscopy
Call for proposal
FP7-SEC-2011-1
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Funding Scheme
CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research projectCoordinator
91767 Palaiseau Cedex
France
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Participants (13)
10177 Athina
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10561 Athina
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20520 Turku
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44139 Dortmund
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44227 Dortmund
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50121 Firenze
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00185 Roma
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60030 Angeli Di Rosora (An)
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69134 ECULLY
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06100 NICE - CEDEX 2
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75015 PARIS 15
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194 41 Koropi
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91120 Palaiseau
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