The SEAGUARD project aims to integrate different types of sensor technology to achieve a more reliable “portrait” of border areas. The project wants to help assess situations of maritime incidents and illegal activities.In this sense, the project will focus on the design, development, and testing of advanced solutions capable of integrating different types of sensor technologies: unmanned vehicles (air, surface and underwater) and intelligent underwater cables, combined with advanced analytics and decision-support systems. All this information will be merged and processed by classification algorithms, and then made available to end users, who will be able to make educated decisions and take action.
Role of PARTICLE
PARTICLE brings its situational awareness system – AWARE – to support security agencies in the visualisation and understanding of the common operational picture of the SEAGUARD interoperability space. AWARE displays an up-to-date operational overview of high impact events, including maritime incidents, threats and victims, displaying assets’ location and availability. The Platform uses rich visual symbology based on the military standard APP-6D. PARTICLE’s work in AWARE received the “Situational Awareness Tool Pioneer Award 2026“.
PARTICLE develops the SEAGUARD Interoperability Framework (S.IF), being the structure that implements a set of rules and protocols for Command and Control (C2), following applicable agreements among the participating entities.
S.IF delivers a common frame allowing components (e.g., services, applications and systems) operated by different entities (e.g., border authorities, rescue organisations) to join the SEAGUARD federation (i.e., a common shared digital space for exchange of information and collaboration) to offer capabilities (herein represented as services) and access existing services. The S.IF concept allows to build a set of joint capabilities by integrating services and data provided by coalition entities.
The federated nature of SEAGUARD preserves ownership and control of services to the providing entity. By establishing well defined boundaries and not limiting the extent of collaboration, S.IF ranges from delivering simple data exchange interoperability between different systems, up to multiplying the overall capability set by combining services and functions brought by the different components and assets present in the SEAGUARD federation.
Funded by the European Union.