CONNECTOR
CustOms exteNded iNteroperablE Common informaTiOn sharing environment
Creating a fully interoperable technical framework for information sharing between Customs, Border and Coast Guard Authorities with an integrated, novel, common and shared risk assessment approach.
Vision.
To develop a fully interoperable technical framework for Customs Extended Common Information Sharing Environment (CE-CISE) by incorporating Customs into the Common Information Sharing Environment (CISE), addressing the need for close cooperation between Customs, Border, and Coast Guard Authorities in the current and upcoming challenging and demanding border control environment.
The challenge.
Due to interoperability issues between the respective IT systems, close collaboration and vital information exchange between Customs, Border, and Coast Guard Authorities is prohibited, limiting the effectiveness of risk assessment conducted by each country's Customs, Border, and Coast Guard Authorities, as not all available information is utilised.
Interoperability Issues
Risk Assessment Ineffectiveness
Unutilised Information
Approach & solutions.
To address these challenges, CONNECTOR is developing a fully interoperable technical framework that will extend the scope and capabilities of CISE to the Customs domain (CE-CISE), ensuring effective management of EU external borders at the operational, tactical, and strategic levels, as well as facilitating interagency and transnational information exchange in order to
- improve the common operational picture
- enhance the situational awareness
- enable EU cross-border joint operations and
- support & complement each other's work
Furthermore, CONNECTOR will develop advanced risk assessment tools to enhance the shared Integrated Border Management (IBM) risk assessment system, which is being supported by the discovery of common risk indicators for both Customs and Border/Coast Guard Authorities.
USE CASES
The CONNECTOR system will be validated in a real, operational environment.
Three scenarios based on well-defined national, cross-border, and transnational use cases from the land and maritime domains will demonstrate the potential of the proposed solution, with a focus on identifying common needs and mechanisms to conclude with a site-agnostic solution aimed at adoption by all relevant stakeholders in the domain.
Interoperability
Interconnectivity frameworks in
Border, Maritime and Customs domains
Integration Platform
Command and Control systems in Border, Maritime and Customs domains
Shared Risk Assessment Mechanism
Common Risk assessment tools & NLP
Decision Support System
Decision Support System dedicated to Customs, Maritime and Border Authorities
Unified DT Framework
Data fusion techniques with digital
twin features
Customised Big Data
Analytics
Data Analytics powered by Data Lakes
Our role.
In CONNECTOR, Inlecom leads the activities revolving around the establishment of Synthetic Data and Simulated Databases, as well as the design and the development of the Risk Assessment Tool exploiting Advanced NLP techniques.
This project has received funding from the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under GA 101121271. Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
