METICOS

Description

METICOS aims to introduce Big Data Analysis of border control information systems, in order to provide a step-change towards more modern and efficient Smart Border management and towards gaining societal and political acceptance of modern control technologies of EU borders such as “no gate solutions”. It is therefore positioned as an initiative to create a real-time decision-support system with regard to different Smart Border control technologies that empowers two major stakeholder groups within the European border control sector (i.e., travellers and border control authorities & service providers) to ensure user acceptance, secure positive societal impact and maximize border control process efficiency.

To this end, the METICOS project will develop a platform that integrates information systems and networks of data sources in order to validate the efficiency and users acceptance of border control technologies like fingerprint and iris scanners. The proposed platform will provide metrics and KPIs to authorities and decision makers, based on a number of independent variables: performance expectancy, effort expectancy, facilitating conditions, physical privacy, accuracy, information privacy, ethical and societal perceptions. METICOS will be demonstrated and validated under real operating conditions. This will involve two pilot implementations executed at five different countries involving real travellers and staff.

A questo scopo, METICOS svilupperà una piattaforma che integra sistemi di informazione e network di fonti dati per validare l’efficienza e accettazione dell’utente di tecnologie di controllo come impronte digitali e scanner del bulbo oculare. La piattaforma proposta fornirà metriche e KPIs per le autorità di frontiera e per le amministrazioni, basate su diverse variabili indipendenti: aspettative di performance, previsioni di contributo monetario e lavorativo, condizioni favorevoli, privacy, accuratezza, questioni etiche e percezione da parte della società civile. METICOS sarà validato in condizioni operazionali reali. Il progetto prevede due test pilota di implementazione eseguiti in 5 diverse nazioni che coinvolgeranno viaggiatori e personale di frontiera.