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 ASPIS (Autonomous Surveillance in Public transport Infrastructure Systems) is a collaborative research project of the FP7-Transport call co-financed by the European Community.
In case of a catastrophic event such as a bombing in a subway or the wreck of a ship, a quick assessment of the situation and the awareness of the number of potential victims could improve drastically the rescue operations and help to save lives.
The ASPIS project has the ambition to fill this gap by developing a video “black-box” able to send video sequences recorded just before the event to the rescue teams to help them in their tasks.
The project aims at the development of a prototype surveillance system based on autonomous, smart monitoring devices that capture data only upon the occurrence of an incident, potentially dangerous for the passengers (like an explosion blast or the triggering of the fire detector).
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 In case of a disaster, the ASPIS device will :
- store what happened just before and just after the event
- set up a had-oc network across the remaining devices
- transfer the stored sequences to the first responders
ASPIS promises to overcome the drawbacks of classical, centralized surveillance by offering a prompt and wide coverage, space and time-wise, on events potentially hazardous to public safety in a cost-effective way without being excessively intrusive to the individual activities. In fact, it constitutes a very good compromise between the need for surveillance / monitoring and the respect of privacy and civil liberties of the citizens. The proposed system will be modular both in terms of triggering and communication capabilities, so as to be of very wide applicability and utilise / complement any existing suitable infrastructure. A system based on blast and fire triggered monitoring devices is proposed as a pilot implementation that will prove the validity of the concept in two very different surface transport applications: a metro (or bus) network and a large ferry vessel. |
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