ESPRIT Project DIMUS: Data Integration in Multisensor Systems

Abstract

The surveillance problem in the transport field seems to be quite critical due to the difficulty of controlling simultaneously different situations and environments.

Ansaldo Ricerche is participating to the realisation of a system capable of supporting the activity of a human operator in the surveillance of underground station environment. The first results of the project, called DIMUS, are shown in a demonstrator system that has been realised in a laboratory environment.

The demonstrator is able to perform:

• the environment monitoring with different sensors (TV cameras, microphones, photocells, tactile arrays, etc.);

• the processing and the fusion of the data coming from the sensors in order to detect the dangerous situations;

• the management of the interaction with the operator.

The project is carried out by a consortium of European Companies, Universities and Research Centres with Ansaldo Ricerche as main contractor and is partially founded by CEC ESPRIT programme (Project 5345 and 7809).

The paper shows the functionalities and the architecture of the DIMUS demonstrator, underlining the technologies used.