Unobtrusive Technologies for Secure and Seamless Border Crossing for Travel Facilitation

世界经济论坛认为，未来十年，跨国旅行将增加50%，到2030年，在新冠肺炎大流行之前，入境人数将达到18亿。由于陆地和海上旅行的不断增加，在人们跨越边境的情况下经常看到延误和排队。这些延误给公民带来了巨大的沮丧，同时也给边境当局的工作人员带来了额外的负担。在欧洲，机场已经设法在一定程度上改善了通过面部识别亭过境的情况，以方便拥有RFID护照的欧洲公民，但仍然可以看到大排长龙。对于非欧洲公民来说，情况甚至更糟。陆地和海上的边境管制把所有的努力都交给了边境当局的工作人员，要求他们检查旅行者的护照，并控制行李和行李。合理地说，即使没有大量的旅客，也会出现大量的延误和排队现象。ODYSSEUS将使公民无需停留即可无缝跨越边境，同时通过提供非常详细的风险分析，减少工作量并提高边境警卫当局的生产力。奥德修斯将利用数字技术的力量，为公民提供适当的工具，以安全和无缝的方式跨越陆地和海洋边界，同时为边境当局提供安全身份验证和不引人注意的车辆/行李/货物检查的新工具，消除边境地区的长时间延误。拟议中的技术将允许公民在没有任何干预的情况下跨境，只需利用他们的智能手机，并结合强大和持续的身份验证。通过x射线和无人机进行远程车辆/行李扫描，将允许当局远程执行适当的控制。

The World Economic Forum suggests that transnational travel will increase by 50% over the next ten years, bringing the number of arrivals to 1.8bn by 2030 before the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the ever-increasing travel both on land and sea, delays and queues are often observed at cases where people are crossing border. These delays create huge frustration for the citizens and at the same time put extra burden to the border authorities’ staff. In Europe, airports have managed to improve to a certain extend the border crossing through the facial recognition booths for European citizens that own an RFID enabled passport, however there are still huge queues observed. For non-European citizens, the situation is even worse. The border control for land and sea are placing all the effort to the border authorities staff requiring from them to check the passports of the travellers as well as to control the luggage and baggage. Reasonably, even without huge number of travellers, large delays and queues are observed. ODYSSEUS will enable citizens to seamlessly cross the border without stopping, while reducing the workload and improving productivity for Border Guard Authorities by providing highly detailed risk analysis. ODYSSEUS will leverage the power of digital technology offering to citizens the appropriate tools to cross land and sea borders in a secure and seamless manner without stopping while equipping the border authorities with novel tools for secure identity verification and unobtrusive vehicle/luggage/cargo checks, eliminating long delays at border areas. The proposed technologies will allow citizens to cross borders without any intervention by just leveraging their smartphones combined with strong and continuous identity verification. Remote vehicle/luggage scanning through X-Rays and UAVs, will allow authorities to remotely perform the appropriate controls.