Biomimicry for airport security

Achievements

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.

Date:

07/07/2016 - 18:45

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.

Read more

SNIFFER

Project:

A bio-mimicry enabled artificial sniffer

See also:

CORDIS

Rapid Press Release:

Do Not Publish as Rapid Press Release

Project website:

http://www.sniffer-project.eu/