Two new SBRIs have been announced to drive efficiency and safety in the rail industry. Network Rail will work with Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, to invest up to £3m to address two of the objectives identified in Network Rail’s CP6 funding strategy for research and development: - Automated tunnel examination - Security surveillance analytics for stations This briefing event is an opportunity for you to find out more about the two SBRI competitions and how to apply, and there will be ample time for networking. The webcast recording is now available: https://youtu.be/Uqq452lk90c Find out more about the Transport Interest Group at https://ktn-uk.co.uk/interests/transport Join the KTN Transport group on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4148691/

1. SBRI: innovation in rail security surveillance analytics
Phase 1 Scope Description
Briefing Event
19 September 2019
Kelvin Davies
Innovation Lead, Rail, InnovateUK

2. Aims of Today’s Briefing
Primary
• Opportunity for Network Rail to brief on the competition objectives
Additional
• Set out the background for this competition
• Bring the scope and guidance to life
• Opportunity for you to ask questions
• Highlight the roles of the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN), and Catapults in making
connections that may help you.
• Provide networking opportunities

3. Competition Summary
SBRI: INNOVATION IN RAIL SECURITY
SURVEILLANCE ANALYTICS, PHASE 1

4. • Organisations can apply for a share of £968,000 + VAT in phase 1
• An additional £500,000 + VAT is available for phase 2
• The competition is eligible to:
• organisation of any size
• project work to be carried out in the UK
• organisations should be based in the UK, EU or the EEA
• 100% funding
• Total project costs for phase 1 up to £121,000 + VAT
• Total project costs for phase 2 up to £250,000 + VAT
• Up to 3 month project duration for phase 1, 12 months for phase 2
• the development and demonstration of new security analytics for
railway stations.
Competition Summary
SBRI: INNOVATION IN RAIL SECURITY
SURVEILLANCE ANALYTICS

5. The competition objectives are to:
• determine if security surveillance systems and associated analytics can work in a
station environment without disrupting the rail network.
• install surveillance analytics to enhance existing systems.
• enhance safety and to reduce delay minutes resulting from station incidents
caused by unusual, unsuitable and undesirable behaviours.
• create a detailed report on the projects’ findings, to provide an initial business
case.
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Objectives

6. The competition objectives are to:
• In phase 1 teams will develop and demonstrate an analytics system using pre-
recorded data.
• Teams invited to proceed to phase 2 will further develop their R&D by trialling
the system in a live station environment.
Applications should describe the proposal and costs for both phases.
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Objectives

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Competition Timeline1March2020
KOM
TestData31May2020
Phase2Assessment
1July2020
KOM
12monthreview
30June2021
3monthreview
6monthreview
9monthreview
2 projects funded 8 projects funded 

8. Lead organisation
Your organisation must:
• be an organisation of any size
• carry out its project work in the UK
• be based in the UK, EU or the EEA
• Your organisation can work alone or, if you do not have all the
required expertise, you can work with others as subcontractors
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Eligibility

9. The system developed in phase 1 and trialled in phase 2 must provide all of the
following.
Third-party data integration:
• must be able to take video data as a direct feed in real-time and through
external media
• Accept an internet protocol (IP) camera feed (not analogue)
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Objectives

10. The system must provide all of the following:
Real time data driven alerts for:
• loitering
• unusual or undesirable behaviours and incidents
• crowd density and behaviour, or crowding trend analysis for security
Detection of unusual and undesirable behaviour of individuals at stations:
• system must adapt to crowds
• system must highlight crowding trends
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Objectives

11. The system must provide all of the following:
Detection of abandoned objects:
• identify objects that are not part of the station which may have been left for a
user defined period of time
• identify high risk ‘abandoned’ object such as suitcases or bags
• cater for time-bound exceptions for temporary objects or structures, such as
when there’s maintenance work within a station
• can adapt to station building changes
• can fine tune false positives based on trends, to reduce the number of false
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Objectives

12. The system must provide all of the following:
Hostile reconnaissance:
• identify hostile reconnaissance behaviours
• distinguish between hostile reconnaissance and loitering
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Objectives

13. We do not want projects to focus on the following system performance aspects:
• facial recognition
• alerts driven by social media mood and/or geo-location
• logo and pattern recognition
• mobile phone analysis
• body-worn camera images
• long-line public address systems and communications
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Objectives

14. Proposals must meet the following requirements to progress to the phase 2 trial:
Scale:
• handle feeds from 20 to 30 cameras
• handle the number of feeds found in a variety of station environments
• proposals must show how scalability will affect performance.
Data:
• process 720p and 1080p image quality
• not use external connectivity on the cloud or internet
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Phase 1 Objectives

15. Interfacing:
• comply with Network Rail security, technical and data standards
• use installed versions of the product at the station
• work with the station management system after the trial
User requirements and alerts:
• show audible and visual alerts to operators
• show the operator the location in the station
• identify the camera location to the operator
• monitoring all day, every day
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Phase 1 Objectives

16. Proposals must also show:
• experience of implementing similar systems
• that the technology can be developed to meet the scope requirements
• the maturity of the technology
• how applicants will deal with asset management or Network Rail Telecom
assurance before the live trial (phase 2)
• Inclusion of reviews during the phase 2 trial to ensure quality at 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12
months (end of trial)
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Phase 1 Objectives

17. Required outputs from phase 1
• During phase 1, teams will develop an analytics system to work in a railway
environment.
• Each team will be given 30 days of recorded video data to analyse to help refine
the system.
• An assessment day will follow to analyse 2 days’ worth of data from 30 cameras.
The data will include a number of security events for the surveillance system to
identify.
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Phase 1 Objectives

18. At the end of phase 1 teams must produce:
• a description of the events and behaviours that the system detected, from the
assessment day
• an outline of the performance specification of a proposed automated video
analytics system for stations
• an outline for a trial plan (to be completed in phase 2) to demonstrate the
performance of the system in a live railway station environment
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Phase 1 Objectives

19. The project’s performance in phase 1 and acceptance to phase 2 will be evaluated
using a scoring matrix agreed by Network Rail. Details of the scoring matrix will be
provided to projects during Phase 1 and will include:
• the percentage of correct positive identifications of items of interest
• the number of false positive identifications
• the percentage of missed identifications
• whether the system will be practical and usable in a railway environment
• cost versus benefits
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Phase 1 Objectives

20. If you are invited to apply for phase 2 your installation and trial should
demonstrate that the system can:
• automatically detect and alert the operator to appropriate incidents
• deliver correct alerts with minimal rates of false positives and missed events
• integrate with existing Network Rail procedures and operations
• At end of the trial you must return the system to standard Network Rail
operations.
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Phase 2 Objectives

21. You must produce a final research report with evidence to support your findings,
showing how the technology performs in railway environments. It must include:
• an identification of appropriate incidents
• a list of the outcomes and successes
• evidence for scalability of the system
• a performance specification of the system
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Phase 2 Objectives

22. Projects we will not fund:
• not likely to be successfully exploited by the rail industry
• not within a year of being ready for market
• do not create a significant change in the level of innovation available
• not high maturity
• high technical risk
• collaborations that cannot effectively deliver a demonstration in a railway
environment
• do not deliver an immersive innovative demonstrator in a railway context
• do not have a demonstration phase, offering the customer a chance to use the
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Objectives

23. Applications must have at least 50% of the contract value attributed
directly and exclusively for research and development (R&D) services.
R&D does not include:
• commercial development activities such as quantity production
• supply to establish commercial viability or to recover R&D costs
• integration, customisation or incremental adaptations and
improvements to existing products or processes
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Eligibility
Specific SBRI requirements

24. For Phase 1, Network Rail will give all projects:
• the specification of the recorded data that Network Rail will make available
• sample data
Projects chosen for phase 1 must sign a NDA with Network Rail
For Phase 2, Network Rail will additionally give all projects:
• access to stations
• contact with the organisation that maintains the existing CCTV systems
• the specifications of the existing CCTV system’s data feeds
• access to Network Rail’s telecoms resource
Supporting information is available to applicants via the secure file upload site. 24
Support from Network Rail

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Background Information
Please also see
• Network Rail Challenges

26. Key Dates
Competition Opened 16 September 2019
Briefing Event 19 September 2019 London
Registration Close noon 6 November 2019
Application Close noon 13 November 2019
Interviews week commending 6 January
Applicants Notified 13 January 2020
Contracts Awarded 10 February 2020
Projects Start 1 March 2020
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Competition Dates

27. • Competition Opened : October 2017 / October 2018 / February 2019
• Competition Closed : November 2017 / November 2018 / April 2019
• Budget Available : £3.6M / £3.5M / £5.5M
• Total project costs : £250,000 - £350,000 (incl VAT)
• Competition Type : SBRI
• Project Duration : 6 - 12 months / up to 9 months / up to 9 months
Themes:
• FOAK 1 : Demonstrating Tomorrow’s Trains Today
• FOAK 2 : Demonstrating Tomorrow’s Stations and a Greener Railway
• FOAK 3 : Resilience, freight, noise and environment 27
Review of Recent SBRI Rail Competitions
(FOAK1 / FOAK2 / FOAK3)

28. • Number of Applications Received = 20 / 59 / 125
• Projects Funded = 10 / 10 / 24
• FOAK1 projects all successfully kicked off and are still in progress / recently completed
• FOAK2 projects commenced 1st March and run for 9 months
• FOAK3 projects are running until early 2020
• For details of the successful applications to First of a Kind Round 1 see here
• For details of the successful applications to First of a Kind Round 2 see here
• For details of the successful applications to First of a Kind Round 3 see here
Please note that these competitions significantly differ from the current competition
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Review of Recent SBRI Rail Competitions
(FOAK1 / FOAK2 / FOAK3)

29. Typical Application Errors
• Incomplete application
• Inappropriate Budget
• Total project costs should be within bounds (no exceptions)
• VAT to be included in costings (but is not included in the stated budgets available)
• Wrong collaborators
• Broken Application Format (must not convert format, note page limits, no figures in
main application).
• Late application
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Review of Recent SBRI Rail Competitions
(FOAK1 / FOAK2 / FOAK3)

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Review of First of a Kind Round 1

31. • Read carefully the scope document and the guidelines
(see particularly: scope documents & guidance for applicants)
• When you have finished your application, re-read these documents
• Pay attention to the expected outcomes in the priority areas
• Is there a need for your project? What’s the challenge? (business need, citizen need,
technological challenge, or market opportunity)
• Is your project within scope?
• Does it address Network Rail’s requirements?
• Why is it innovative?
• What’s the route to market?
• Take particular care not to go beyond the eligibility criteria (budget, application format,
teaming requirements, requirement for innovation)
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Top Tips

32. Competition Information
Competition brief:
https://apply-for-innovation-
funding.service.gov.uk/competition/441
/overview
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For further guidance for applicants visit:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio
ns/competition-guidance-for-sbri-
innovation-in-rail-security-surveillance-
analytics/competition-guidance-for-sbri-
innovation-in-rail-security-surveillance-
analytics

33. support@innovateuk.ukri.org
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Or contact
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with the KTN

34. Questions
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