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TESTUDO 5th plenary meeting
The fifth in-person plenary meeting of the TESTUDO project took place on April 24 near Athens, Greece, at a picturesque location managed by EYDAP. During the meeting, partners discussed a summary of recent project activities, with a particular focus on the recently completed trials. These activities laid the groundwork for the upcoming demonstration under Use
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TESTUDO’s Online Workshop for Critical Infrastructure Stakeholders on CI protection
On April 29th, 2026 TESTUDO held an online workshop for stakeholders focused on CI protection in response to environmental and security challenges. The workshop was targeted to all the safety and security professionals in critical infrastructures: tunnel construction companies and tunnel operators, Fire Brigades, Police, UAV providers, chemical industries, traffic monitoring centres and other key
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TESTUDO at the Automation & Robotics Expo 2026
On April 25-27, 2026, ACCELIGENCE Ltd. (ACCELI) showcased TESTUDO at their stand during the Automation & Robotics Expo 2026 (A+R Expo’26) in Athens, Greece. ACCELI presented various types of their UAVs, with the versatile octa-copter CERBERUS among them, which will be utilised as one of the TESTUDO assets. The A+R Expo ’26 is the most important exhibition event
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TESTUDO at the RISE-SD 2026 conference
On April 15-16, 2026, the Center for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) represented TESTUDO at the Research and Innovation Symposium for European Security 2026 (RISE-SD 2026) in Varna, Bulgaria. Konstantinos Gkountakos presented TESTUDO, its strategic goals and objectives, system architecture, technological assets and three Use Cases. The project was also presented at a dedicated booth
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TESTUDO’s 2nd Policy brief released
Today, the 2nd TESTUDO Policy brief “Operational Readiness in Critical Infrastructure Protection: Early Insights from TESTUDO Pilots“ has been publicly released. Key Highlights TESTUDO strengthens critical infrastructure protection through an integrated, real-time platform combining AI-enabled detection, predictive analysis, multi-sensor fusion, and coordinated robotic assets to enhance operational readiness. UC2 pilot validation confirmed high-accuracy visual detection
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TESTUDO’s stakeholder workshop on CI protection in response to environmental and security challenges
On April 29th, 2026 TESTUDO is organising a stakeholder workshop focused on CI protection in response to environmental and security challenges. The consortium would like to cordially invite all the safety and security professionals in critical infrastructures to participate. The stakeholders’ expertise and perspective are vital for the project developments – the workshop will be
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TESTUDO’s Use Case 2 trials
Recently, TESTUDO consortium has completed the second live trial (UC2), with the main objective of testing the system’s functionality and presenting its current state to a broader audience of stakeholders. Operating in a challenging in-field environment was a valuable milestone for all the project partners. The challenges encountered during the preparation phase were successfully overcome,
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TESTUDO 4th plenary meeting in Bilbao
The 4th physical plenary meeting of the TESTUDO project was held in Bilbao, Spain, on 5th December. The review of project activities focused on concluding the recently completed execution of UC#2 trials, with all partners involved having the opportunity to present the current state of developments made in the TESTUDO system. In the coming weeks,
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TESTUDO publication in the Sensors journal
TESTUDO’s research team from the Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH) has recently published a research paper in the MDPI journal Sensors. The main findings of the work show that thermal object detection increases surveillance capabilities and can greatly complement other surveillance systems.Results of the study suggest that the use of thermal automatic detection
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Release of TESTUDO 2nd Newsletter
The second issue of TESTUDO Newsletter has been published and is available for download here. The Newsletter covers summary of the activities and accomplishments in the second year of the project implementation and some highlights on the work in progress as well as dissemination and clustering activities. Get more to know about TESTUDO and read our