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SAPIENT networked autonomous sensing

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Sensing for Asset Protection with Integrated Electronic Networked Technology (SAPIENT) is an open standard and open architecture for networking multiple advanced sensors. It uses artificial intelligence (AI) ‘at the edge’ (locally) and intelligent fusion to manage both the sensors and any effectors in a coordinated way.

These features combine to create a powerful concept of autonomous networked sensing for situational awareness, which responds to detection events at machine speed, automatically allocating sense or effect assets to optimally deal with the emerging scenario.

SAPIENT was developed by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) for easy integration of sensors and effectors for defence and security applications, but it has dual-use across defence and non-defence applications and has seen use cases in multiple applications where rapid sensing, autonomous decision making and machine-speed effect are required.

SAPIENT has now been adopted by MOD as the standard for counter-uncrewed aerial systems (counter-UAS) technology. It is also being adopted as the basis of a NATO standard for counter-drone systems.

Benefits for system operators and procurers

For those using SAPIENT, the benefits include:

  • Enabling autonomous intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR). SAPIENT enables machine-speed situational awareness and tasking of sensors and effectors.
  • Enabling vendor independence. SAPIENT allows mixing of sensors and effectors from different suppliers, which avoids long-term lock-in with a single vendor.
  • Improved decision-making through information fusion. By enabling multiple sensor types to contribute to a shared data picture, SAPIENT allows fusion systems to combine complementary strengths and mitigate weaknesses. This results in a single, coherent view of the environment that is more resilient to spoofing, deception and false alarms.

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