Atos helps the Civil Guard to control the border crossing of vehicles

Through Atos' SIAM solution, the Civil Guard will have a tool with a video system that captures and recognizes the license plates of cars crossing the border. It allows detecting if it is stolen, it has fake plates or has undergone any suspicious transformation, such as a color change.

Atos will help the Civil Guard to facilitate the recognition of license plates at Spanish borders. For this, it will implement a new version of SIAM (Automatic License Plate Recognition System), which incorporates the Centinela IT tool, a program developed by Bull, a brand specialized in the development of Atos technology and software.

SIAM allows knowing, in seconds and automatically, if a car crossing the border is stolen, it has fake plates or has undergone any suspicious transformation, such as a color change.

This tool uses a video system for capture, license plate recognition and information analysis, which is sent to the local and central servers of the Civil Guard, where any anomaly is verified and detected. The video system allows recording with precision of 98% the license plates of vehicles traveling at speeds of up to 180 km/h, regardless of their shape or color.

SIAM allows knowing in real time if that registration number has any alert recorded, and if so, the incident is communicated in four seconds to the Civil Guard officer at the post, where the full history of the vehicle is available.

The process is fast and transparent for users and, if there is no alert,, the barrier rises and allows the vehicle to pass. Otherwise,, it remains lowered and the agent receives, through a mobile device connected via WiFi, different notifications, depending on the irregularity detected, and the corresponding instructions. This will allow agents to streamline control tasks at the borders.

The new version of SIAM has been installed at the borders of Ceuta, Melilla and La Línea de la Concepción and in the ports of Barcelona, Alicante, Almería, Motril, Málaga, Algeciras, Tarifa, Cadiz, Ceuta and Puerto del Rosario, in Fuerteventura. Besides, in the port area of Melilla the Civil Guard has a portable system.

“More than 2.000 kilometers of the European borders are secured by Atos solutions. This agreement strengthens our position as providers in border control systems, with more than 15 years of experience in developing cutting-edge solutions that meet the needs of border control authorities” assures Philippe Duluc, senior vice president for Mission-Critical Systems at Atos.

Centinela: for checkpoints and airports

Centinela, is a scalable system, modular and interoperable that allows border control based on the integration of information technologies. This solution developed by Atos integrates various types of features such as improvement in real-time license plate recognition, centralized information management, facial recognition, or big data analysis for intelligence, etc. This makes it easy for authorities to carry out control, identification and management of border posts.

Atos provides systems for the continuous control of regulated borders (airports and checkpoints) with Centinela, as well as of unregulated borders (land and sea) with Vigia. Two solutions that are part of the company's software and hardware portfolio.