SITC - Security Innovation & Technology Consortium
Opportunities for Technology Trials in 2012
The London Olympics in 2012 represents a significant opportunity for the UK Security Sector to showcase technological innovation, with a view to exploiting the legacy benefits and create global marketing prospects for UK companies. However, technology that is being deployed at the Olympic events has to be of a standard that has been tried and tested in an operational capacity. Whilst the reasons for this policy are fully understandable, this does mean that recent innovations in UK security technology will not be given the opportunity to form part of the London Olympics 2012 security regime.
Therefore, SITC, ADS and the BSIA have been working together over the last year on a project that will create an opportunity for UK companies to trial innovative technologies at the parallel events taking place across the UK in the summer of 2012.
It is likely that the type of technologies required for the project will come from the ‘Sensors and Detectors', and ‘Surveillance and Tracking' subsets (including but not exclusively CBRNE detectors, liquids detection, screening and tracking people, deceptive behaviours, unattended baggage etc), with some Command and Control functions to manage the systems and processes.
Further details about this opportunity are attached below.
SITC Members wishing to express interest in participating in this project are asked to send the following details to Steve Swain before the closing date for applications on the 30th November 2011.
- Name of company
- Contact point
- Technology capability ( fitting into ‘Sensors and Detectors', ‘Surveillance and Tracking' or Command and Control)
- A brief outline of the capability, how it could be deployed and what the expected outcomes from it would be ( no more than 150 words).
It is emphasised that the whole purpose of this project is to trial new innovation from these technology subsets and the team reserve the right to exclude products that do not meet this requirement.