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1 Sept 2025Start
31 Aug 2028End

ORION

Optimized Risk-based Intelligence-driven Operations for Next-generation Secure, Reliable and Privacy-preserving Border Management

Status: Ongoing projectSector: SecurityDuration: 36 months
Security
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Project description

Faster, Greener, and More Secure Border Checks for Europe.

ORION develops next-generation technologies to streamline borders, customs, and security checks. It integrates AI, advanced biometrics, and interoperable systems to enhance coordination, improve traveler experience, and ensure strong privacy and legal compliance across EU borders.

Aim

To revolutionize border management through AI-driven risk assessment, dynamic resource allocation, and predictive analytics, delivering faster, smarter, and more secure operations at land, maritime, and rail border crossings.

Objectives

  • Improve coordination between border, customs, and security controls with novel technologies
  • Optimise resource allocation to reduce waiting times while ensuring high security
  • Enhance threat detection in complex environments such as Ro-Ro ferry operations
  • Ensure interoperability with existing EU databases and legacy systems
  • Increase energy efficiency and lower environmental impact by minimising queues and congestion
  • Guarantee strong ethical and legal compliance to protect travellers' data

Expected results

  • Faster and more predictable border crossing processes for travellers
  • Enhanced operational effectiveness in identifying security threats and anomalies
  • Improved decision-making support for border authorities through data-driven insights
  • Measurable reductions in congestion, energy consumption, and environmental footprint
  • Increased trust, transparency, and acceptance of border technologies through explainable and compliant AI

ORION solutions

  • Remote Biometric Enrollment and In-vehicle Verification
  • Morphing attack detection and mitigation
  • Device security for digital identity and travel documents
  • Scalable vehicle screening through portable X-ray scanning
  • Advanced vehicle visual recognition and anomaly detection
  • AI-driven risk assessment for border management systems
  • Border resource allocation and management engine
  • Intelligent queue prediction and management
  • Privacy-preserving fuzzy search and encryption
  • Explainable-AI-fuelled decision support system

Use cases

  • Intelligent management of embarkation processes for Ro-Ro ferries
  • Optimised traveller disembarkation from Ro-Ro ferries at high-traffic ports
  • Enhanced risk assessment and resource allocation at land border crossings
  • Improved seamless identity verification at train stations

Consortium

ORION brings together 21 partners from 14 countries, including border and security authorities, industry and technology providers, research centres, universities, and transport operators.

Industry and technology providers

Associations

Universities and research organizations

Border authorities and transport operators