Research Project
ANITA: technologies to monitor illegal trade
A research project aimed at fighting counterfeit or illegal goods traffic.
Where: international
Where: international
Challenge
Emerging technologies are at the forefront of revolutionizing investigative efforts to combat illegal trade. Their impact extends far beyond traditional methods, bringing about a paradigm shift in how we approach and tackle these complex challenges.
Approach
This is the primary goal of the European Project ANITA, with Engineering serving as the coordinator. The project is specifically focused on designing and creating automated tools for monitoring and combating drug trafficking, counterfeit medicines, new psychoactive substances (NPS), and firearms associated with terrorism. ANITA conduces an in-depth analysis of illicit online traffic and related social, ethical, legal and privacy-related issues, as a basis on which to develop innovative tools.
Digital Ecosystem
Solution
Digital Ecosystem
The project involves the development of a platform that supports investigations into illegal traffic through the identification and analysis of heterogeneous online data sources (text, audio, video, image). In this way, it provides relevant resources for the investigations.
This will be possible through the combination of:
- innovative technologies for the analysis of cryptocurrency networks and heterogeneous financial transactions
- automated merging and processing of data and information
- user friendly data intelligence software, allowing users to identify spatial, temporal and causal correlations between events, entities and illegal traffic activities.
At the end of the project, the results will be demonstrated by the police forces involved.
Financing Framework
Results
Support for decision
making processes
User friendly platform
Impacts
Technologies
AI & Advanced Analytics
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The power of big data leads services, products and processes to a higher level of "intelligence".
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