INNOVATION
How a Knowledge Transfer Partnership between the University of Sussex and Gunnebo Entrance Control is advancing security gate technology
GATEWAY TO SUCCESS Capturing students’ silly – and sensible – walks through a tunnel of sensors will help to provide key information for the development of new-generation security gates used in businesses and airports. The activity is part of a joint project between the University of Sussex and Gunnebo Entrance Control (GEC), a design and manufacturing company of security gates. Research by experts in computer vision and sensor technology at the University
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initiative to encourage the sharing and development of university research with business. Kate Thorpe, Deputy Head of Business Engagement at the University of Sussex, said: “It’s exciting to see innovations at the University applied to real world settings and great to have an opportunity for students to see the results of industry and University collaboration first hand too.”
is helping to develop an algorithm for detecting ‘people flow’ through speed security gates.
The project is led for Sussex by Dr Phil Birch, Reader in Engineering at the University, and Professor Daniel Roggen, Professor in Wearable Technologies. They have expertise in the development of infrared devices to track movement.
University students are among those providing the moving bodies required to test the effectiveness of the equipment at Gunnebo’s UK laboratory in Maresfield, East Sussex.
Facilitating the knowledge transfer between the University and Gunnebo is Dr Peter Overbury, a Sussex graduate whose post-doctoral work has focused on security analytics.
The two-year collaboration is partly funded by a grant from Innovate UK through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), a government
Peter says: “My role is to take the KTP project all the way through the development of a sensor/machine learning algorithm for the detection of people
