In the first 18 months the Consortium worked extensively in the communication of the project: the creation of a visual identity, the creation and updating of the project’s website; the setting up of the dissemination and communication strategy, the production of different dissemination materials, among other activities. At the same time, there were many efforts in the creation of a network of stakeholders, and also in disseminating the first results in conferences, workshops or through scientific publications and press releases. During this first period FORENSOR participated in 70 dissemination and communication activities.
From March 2017 until February 2019 (M19-M42) the work was mainly focused on disseminating the project’s results through the organization of the two open workshops in Italy and Spain, but also through the participation in trade fairs, exhibitions, conferences, workshops, bilateral meetings or activities jointly organized with other H2020 projects. It is important to highlight the presence of FORENSOR in important events such as SRE2018 and the 12th meeting of the COU, the Security Trade Fair SICUR 2018, PSCE conference and the FORENSOR scientific workshop within the 14th IEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance, among others.
The communication of the project through videos, press releases, websites and social media continued during the second period. In fact during this period FORENSOR had its own social media accounts on Twitter and Facebook. A special focus has been put on the stakeholders’ involvement and feedback, especially LEAs, thanks to a questionnaire available in 14 EU languages and to bilateral meetings with other EU police forces. During this second period FORENSOR participated in 127 dissemination and communication activities.
The FORENSOR Exploitation plans are based on inputs from the consortium and focus on:
a) The exploitation of the FORENSOR system as an integrated system, and
b) The exploitation of individual FORENSOR components and research results.
We have continuously verified LEAs requirements, via involvement of nearly 40 different LEA agencies from 9 countries, presenting to them FORENSOR paradigm and concept, and analyzing their feedback. We have collected analytics regarding most wanted functionalities of Event Detector and regarding most essential tradeoffs, that Law Enforcement Agencies are ready to make (e.g. between size and lifetime, accuracy of detection, false alarms, way of communication, etc.).
Apart from LEA market, we have analyzed exploitation potential of other markets – where unique functionalities of concepts developed and verified in FORENSOR have good innovation potential (transport and logistics companies, financial services providers, local administration and critical infrastructure operators).
Finally, set of individual exploitation has been transferred for evaluation at commercial departments of FORENSOR partners. This includes for example licensing of core sensor patent pending technologies, low-power scene interpretation algorithms, microprocessor for ultra-low power video processing applications, link layer security protocol for wireless network equipment, IoT solutions specifically targeted at precision agriculture and more.
