HORIZON 2020 - Biomimicry for airport security

New technologies are progressively changing the face of airport and border security. To contribute to this development, the EU-funded SNIFFER project took a page out of nature's book, using biomimicry to make detecting and analysing odours of persons, illegal substances and in particular explosives more efficient.

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Innovation Security Secure societies – Protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens France Germany Greece Italy United Kingdom Switzerland Israel

date: 07/07/2016

Project: A bio-mimicry enabled artificial sniffer

acronym: SNIFFER

See also: CORDIS

While dogs are undoubtedly the most effective ‘tool’ when it comes to detecting and analysing odours, their training is time-consuming and has to be limited to a small selection of specific odours. In addition, sniffer dogs tire easily.

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