Overview

DARLENE (DEEP AR LAW ENFORCEMENT ECOSYSTEM)

DARLENE is a three-year EU funded project investigating how cutting-edge augmented reality (AR) technology can be deployed to help law enforcement agencies (LEAs) and first responders make more informed and rapid decisions especially in situations where time is of the essence.

The project develops innovative augmented reality (AR) tools that aim to improve situational awareness when responding to criminal and terrorist activities. DARLENE will combine innovative AR smart glass technology and powerful computer vision algorithms with 5G network architectures to allow agile processing of real-time data by LEAs even in high-pressure situations. The project will also carry out an integrated ethical, data protection and social impact assessment of augmented reality tools in order to ensure compliance with ethics requirements and build public trust for the lawful use of technology.

The project started in September 2020 and is coordinated by Dr. Dimitrios Tzovaras representing the Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH). Fifteen partners are participating in the consortium from ten European countries such as Greece, Spain, Belgium, France, UK, Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, Germany and Lithuania.

Check out the DARLENE leaflet here.

Meetings

DARLENE 3rd Plenary Meeting

On 21 & 22 July, DARLENE project partners assembled for the 3rd plenary meeting to review the project’s progress towards the end of the first year and outline the roadmap ahead by the work package leaders. The 2-day meeting was hosted by the project coordinator, Dr. Nikolaos Dimitriou, #CERTH and all 14 partners joined remotely via teleconference.

News

DARLENE Project innovations highlighted by project coordinator Dr. Nikolaos Dimitriou (CERTH), in the United Nation’s Event: Application of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in Countering Terrorism and Preventing Violent Extremism on 8th July 2021.

Watch full event.

Market Analysis

To demonstrate the potential for large economic impact of the DARLENE project, project partner YOUBIQUO conducted a market analysis based on the AR technology examined from different perspectives. The DARLENE Market analysis report provided a insightful view of the AR market, some highlights from the report will be presented below.

AR 2021 Trends (Source: VXCHNGE)

The DARLENE Market Analysis supported identifying the key drivers of the AR market and the Market Attractiveness analysis shows which component, and which region is going to register a higher growth in the AR industry. Among the major conclusions were:

AR market is set to grow at CAGR of 42.5% over the forecast period 2020-2026.
The growth is attributed to the increasing adoption of AR in huge investments & technological advancement.
The AR market stood at USD 25,248 Million revenue in 2019 and is expected to reach USD 344,325 Million by 2026.
Hardware segment accounted for 56.22% market share in terms of revenue in 2019 and is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 43.4% during the forecast period.
Manufacturing segment accounted for 29.74% market share in terms of revenue in 2019 and is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 41.1% during the forecast period.
Healthcare segment is expected to grow at the fastest CAGR of 47.2% during the forecast period.
Defence & Security segment is going to see the adoption of AR and AI technologies.

Read more about AR Trends

Cluster news

DARLENE is a proud member of the LEA cluster with nine other H2020-funded projects – CC-DRIVER, COPKIT, INSPECTr, LOCARD, PREVISION, PROTAX, RAYUELA, ROXANNE and TRACE.

TRACE has joined the LEA cluster

The LEA cluster welcomes the newly-launched TRACE project. TRACE is a three-year project that will perform intensive cross-disciplinary research to develop technological and socio-legal tools for tracking illicit money flows in Europe. The €7 million project began in July 2021, has 16 partners from 8 countries and is co-ordinated by Coventry University (CU).

ROXANNE’s Second Field-Test is Here!

Roxanne will be hosting its second field test on 8 October, 2021 from 9-5:30 CET. The goal of this field test is to showcase ROXANNE platform’s latest capabilities and demonstrate its performance and usefulness for solving criminal cases through streamlined data analysis.

Learn more and register for the event here.

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 883297.

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Contact details

Project Coordinator: Dr. Dimitrios Tzovaras

Information Technologies Institute (CERTH / ITI)

6th Km Charilaou-Thermi Road
57001 (PO Box 60361)
Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece

Telephone: +30 2311 257777

info@darleneproject.eu

Dissemination & Communication Manager:

Dr George Guirgis (eBOS Technologies)

georgeg@ebos.com.cy