Unobtrusive Technologies for Secure and Seamless Border Crossing for Travel Facilitation

世界经济论坛表示，未来十年，跨国旅行将增长50%，到2030年，在新冠肺炎疫情爆发之前，入境人数将达到18亿人。鉴于陆路和海路旅行的日益增加，人们在过境时经常会出现延误和排队的情况。这些拖延给公民带来了巨大的挫败感，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为拥有RFID护照的欧洲公民提供的边境口岸，但仍观察到排起了长队。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将所有的努力都交给了边境当局的工作人员，要求他们检查旅客的护照并控制行李。合理地说，即使没有大量的旅客，也可以看到大量的延误和排队。奥德修斯将使公民能够无缝过境而不停车，同时通过提供高度详细的风险分析来减轻边防警卫队当局的工作量并提高生产率。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上边界，而不会停车，同时为边境当局配备安全身份验证和不引人注目的车辆/行李/货物检查的新工具，消除边境地区的长期延误。拟议的技术将允许公民只需利用他们的智能手机结合强大而持续的身份验证就可以跨越边境，而不需要任何干预。通过X光和无人机远程扫描车辆/行李，将使当局能够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.