CAST – A Next-Generation Threat Detection System to Prevent Mass Casualty Attacks to Soft Targets and Protect Citizens’ Lives

CAST — 下一代威胁检测系统，可防止针对软目标的大规模伤亡攻击并保护公民的生命

• 批准号: 105005
• 金额: $ 44.12万
• 依托单位: METRASENS LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=105005
• 关键词: CAST; Next; Generation; Threat; Detection

Events at large venues like arenas and stadia attract tens or even hundreds of thousands of people. **However, these urban 'soft targets' and their perimeters have recently become vulnerable to malicious mass casualty attacks.** The deadly atrocities at Manchester Arena and France's National Football Stadium are graphic examples of the increasing global threat of terrorism on soft targets. **These extremist terrorist attacks kill innocent people including children and lead to severe economic and social disruption.** In 2017, the five terror attacks in the UK, including the Manchester Bombing, led to economic losses of £3.5bn \[RAND Europe\]. The last six mass casualty attacks in Europe resulted in 188 deaths and 808 injuries \[Heritage Foundation\].**Existing solutions** **such as portal-based detectors (whether metal detection or millimetre wave imagers) are ineffective for outside perimeter screening.** They are slow, labour-intensive and highly overt. They require individuals to divest their possessions, forcing them through a portal which becomes impractical, costly and creates a target in itself. Drones, CCTV, security guards and K9 units are merely observational methods and do not detect threats.**There is thus a large and growing need** to protect the perimeter of 'urban soft targets', before a threat can be realised, without causing disruption to the free flow of people or the venue.This project will develop CAST - **a novel, covert, mass casualty threat detection system based on processing signals from a networked array of advanced ferromagnetic sensors embedded into the built environment, to automatically detect threats.** Integrated with a video management system, CAST's innovative system will 'tag and track' a suspect once an alert has been triggered, allowing security operatives to intercept the individual far enough from the venue to prevent deadly attacks.However, detecting threats from the built environment reliably and accurately poses significant technical challenges, especially to discriminate against benign objects with similar magnetic signatures or interference from external sources. **Metrasens has a successful track-record of developing world-leading, award-winning ferromagnetic detection solutions and we currently export across 44 countries.** This Innovate UK project will allow us to capture a huge global export market and help address the government's top priority to fight terrorism.5 years post-project, we expect to generate cumulative revenues and profit of £73.8m and £14.8m respectively, in turn creating 74 skilled jobs. **With a vast number of urban soft targets worldwide, this project will significantly boost UK exports, increase safety of citizens and protect infrastructure.**

竞技场和体育场等大型场馆举办的活动吸引了数万甚至数十万人。 **然而，这些城市“软目标”及其周边最近变得容易受到大规模伤亡的恶意攻击。** 曼彻斯特竞技场和法国国家足球场发生的致命暴行是全球恐怖主义对软目标威胁日益严重的生动例子。 **这些极端主义恐怖袭击造成包括儿童在内的无辜民众死亡，并导致严重的经济和社会混乱。** 2017年，包括曼彻斯特爆炸案在内的英国发生的五起恐怖袭击事件，造成了35亿英镑的经济损失[兰德欧洲]。欧洲最近发生的六次大规模伤亡袭击造成 188 人死亡和 808 人受伤\[遗产基金会\]。**现有解决方案** **诸如基于门户的探测器（无论是金属探测还是毫米波成像仪）对于外围筛查无效。**它们速度慢、劳动密集型且高度公开。它们要求个人放弃自己的财产，迫使他们通过一个不切实际、成本高昂且本身就成为目标的门户。无人机、闭路电视、保安和 K9 装置仅仅是观察方法，并不能检测威胁。**因此，在威胁发生之前，有一个巨大且不断增长的需求**来保护“城市软目标”的周边，而不会对人员或场地的自由流动造成干扰。该项目将开发 CAST - **一种基于处理来自网络阵列的信号的新型、隐蔽、大规模伤亡威胁检测系统 将先进的铁磁传感器嵌入到建筑环境中，自动检测威胁。** CAST 的创新系统与视频管理系统集成，一旦触发警报，就会“标记和跟踪”嫌疑人，从而使安全人员能够在距场地足够远的地方拦截嫌疑人，以防止致命的攻击。然而，可靠、准确地检测建筑环境中的威胁提出了重大的技术挑战，特别是区分良性威胁 具有类似磁性特征或来自外部源的干扰的物体。 **Metrasens 在开发世界领先、屡获殊荣的铁磁检测解决方案方面拥有成功的记录，目前我们的出口遍及 44 个国家。** 这个创新英国项目将使我们能够占领巨大的全球出口市场，并帮助解决政府打击恐怖主义的首要任务。项目实施 5 年后，我们预计将分别产生 7380 万英镑和 1480 万英镑的累计收入和利润，从而创造 74 熟练的工作。 **由于全球范围内有大量城市软目标，该项目将显着促进英国出口，提高公民安全并保护基础设施。**