Competition summary: what's inside that building?
Updated 10 September 2015
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1. Summary
This CDE themed competition is looking for novel techniques to remotely provide information about the layout and situation inside a building.
We’re interested in technologies and methods to gather any information that contributes to our overall awareness. Traditional sensing methods may have a role to play but ideas shouldn’t be constrained to these technologies.
The ability to remotely gather information about the inside of buildings is critical to defeat increasingly sophisticated adversaries. This could include (but isn’t limited to):
- detecting concealed manufacturing activity
- finding out about the internal structure of a building in preparation for entry (including walls, furniture and electrical equipment)
- identifying illegal storage activities
- working out the number of people in a building and what they are doing
- detecting people who are hiding or being held against their will
- supporting disaster relief, ie seeing under collapsed buildings
2. Total funding
£650,000 is available for funding phase 1 of this competition.
3. Competition close
This competition closes on Thursday 10 September 2015 at 5pm. Proposals must be submitted through the CDE online portal.