As border security continues to increase in prominence as a matter of intense concern to government security agencies, Elbit Systems selected DSEI 2025 in London last week as the launch venue for Frontier – an AI-based wide area persistent surveillance system aimed squarely at the evolving challenge.
Offering real-time threat detection and decision-making support, both enabled an enhanced through the application of AI, Frontier reduces operator workload, enhances mission success rates and significantly reduces operating costs. Threat detection, classification and assessment are conducted autonomously and in real time, while the system’s AI capabilities and edge computing optimize the gathering and processing of actionable data and intelligence.
Key Features of Frontier include:
- AI-based adaptive routine learning enables analysis of large volumes of data, detecting anomalies and deviations while enabling operators to adapt appropriate responses;
- Threat classification is conducted autonomously, allowing for rapd and effective response;
- Smart support for decision-making prioritises potential threats and facilitates effective responses;
- Sensor integration maximises fusion and enables coherent perimeter understanding;
- Optimizing operational efficiency reduces operator burden and results in measurable cost-savings.
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Confronted with a rapidly widening threat envelope, security and border control authorities face challenganging from hostile drone incursions and criminal activity to illegal migration and economic warfare. Intellectual, managerial and time pressures combine to erode the effect of long-standing skillsets in many cases. Frontier joins the growing security industry trend of AI-enabled systems designed to enhance, support and empower the human element while automating much of the data gathering and intelligence production. Demand for autonomy now ranks as high as that for reliability as authorities invest in the technologies required for more efficient processing, faster decision-making support and proactive asset management. Although such systems have not yet become a commodity in termas of acquisition, Elbit is likely to face significant competition in this space in coming months.
