Centre to secure Romanian borders

Cassidian and the Romanian Border Police have inaugurated the central command and control centre for the border security system in Romania.

Awarded in 2004 and extended in 2009 to cover the complete Schengen external border, phase one of the Romanian Border Security solution protects the longest land border in Europe against illegal immigration, smuggling, trafficking and terrorism while providing increased national security for Romanian citizens.

A milestone has been achieved with the delivery of the Command and Control Centre, an 18,000 m² building which will host the system data centre and the national operational dispatch centre.

The technology behind the Romanian Border Security project is an integrated system with surveillance enhanced recognition and identification capabilities, operational applications for command and control with automatic vehicle location, threat analysis at border crossing and e-learning for border guards, a secure TETRA mobile communication network, all functioning over a highly reliable national data and voice communication system and supervised by an umbrella management system.

Cassidian has installed fixed cameras and radars on many hot locations around the border, integrated in local command centres, and has delivered a TETRA professional mobile radio-communication network on nine external border counties, data and voice communications, as well as the infrastructure works.

The IT applications needed to manage the operations at the border, like command and control, risk analysis, e-learning, automatic vehicle location and the overall system management have also been installed.