// Dual-use border and traffic security layer

One layer. Two security objectives.

Cerberus upgrades existing border crossings and traffic-control points into a single, legally defensible and auditable sensing and decision-support layer — protecting the road network and screening border-security risks at once, bringing people into a genuine decision position and supporting the right call, so control always stays in human hands.

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// The risk is not theoretical

Behind the traffic on Europe's borders lie real, recurring human tragedies. The shared goal is prevention: a risk screened out in time, at the border, can save lives before harm is done.

Concealed human transport, with fatal outcome.

In August 2015, seventy-one refugees — including children — suffocated in the sealed cargo hold of a refrigerated lorry that had set out from Hungary and was found in Austria; the victims had been loaded near the Serbian–Hungarian border. The case remains a defining reference point for Hungarian–Austrian border-security cooperation.

Non-biometric detection of living people in a sealed cargo hold gives an early, humane signal before tragedy strikes.
Fatigued or reckless drivers.

In June 2026, on the M1 motorway near Győr, two connected crashes within minutes killed eight foreign nationals, with suspected falling asleep at the wheel. Fatigue-related cross-border coach tragedies (Verona, January 2017 — 16 dead; Deutschlandsberg, January 1999 — 18 dead) point to the same risk.

Behaviour-based early warning of driver fatigue and sudden incapacity creates a chance to intervene in time.
Illicit cargo on the Balkan route.

The weapons used in the November 2015 Paris and November 2020 Vienna terror attacks reached Western Europe from the Western Balkan black market, along the Balkan route.

Vehicle and cargo screening, dangerous-goods and radiation-portal capabilities help filter out illicit shipments.
Radiological and nuclear smuggling at the border.

The International Atomic Energy Agency's incident database has recorded thousands of cases since 1993 of nuclear and radioactive material falling outside regulatory control, with hundreds of confirmed or likely smuggling incidents, including movements of enriched uranium and plutonium. Seizures have occurred at European border crossings too: in May 1999, Bulgarian customs seized enriched uranium at the border.

Passive, contactless radiation screening of vehicles and cargo can flag above-background radiation early and filter out unauthorised radioactive shipments.
Organised cross-border vehicle theft.

In the summer of 2024, a European police operation dismantled a mainly Moldovan-led network that had stolen more than a hundred luxury cars in the European Union and smuggled them abroad; the seized equipment included key-cloning and signal-jamming devices. In another operation led by a border agency, more than five hundred stolen cars were recovered.

Automatic plate recognition and matching of make, model and colour — cross-checked against registries and wanted lists — flags stolen or falsely plated vehicles early.
Overweight freight and damage to the road network.

Overloaded lorries damage the road surface and bridges in proportion to a high power of the load. In Germany, a motorway bridge had to be closed for months due to overload-related damage, and at a check in an Austrian region three-quarters of the inspected trucks were overloaded.

Certifiable weigh-in-motion mass and axle-load measurement filters out overweight vehicles without false alarms and protects the road network.
Dangerous goods on the roads.

In August 2018, on an Italian motorway, the collision of a tanker carrying liquefied gas led to an explosion with a fatality and major damage — an example of the uncontrolled risk of dangerous-goods transport.

Cross-checking dangerous-goods marking against permit records filters out prohibited or unauthorised restricted shipments before they reach populated areas.
Organised human smuggling and joint enforcement.

Austrian and Hungarian authorities, with Europol support, jointly dismantled a people-smuggling network; concealed transport regularly endangers lives. In an August 2015 case in Upper Austria, police rescued three children from a crowded van, close to death.

Detecting concealed people and risk scoring from multiple signals enable early, coordinated intervention by the authorities.
Vehicle as a weapon, a wanted offender across borders.

In December 2016, a rejected asylum seeker hijacked a lorry in Berlin — killing the Polish driver — and drove it into a Christmas market, killing twelve people. The perpetrator then fled across several countries and was shot four days later in Italy, near Milan.

Plate and vehicle identification, automatic matching against wanted lists, and analysis of vehicle behaviour help quickly flag wanted vehicles and persons at multiple points in the network.
Drugs in the cargo.

In November 2025, an international police operation dismantled an Albanian–Italian network that had smuggled more than a tonne of cocaine from South America through Northern European ports and on to Italy — transported in lorries, hidden in the cargo.

A discrepancy between declared and measured mass, together with the fusion of non-intrusive inspection and sensor data, gives a risk signal for hidden, illicit shipments.

These cases are drawn from public sources. Cerberus has a single purpose: to make such risks detectable in time — defensively, with people firmly in control of the decision.

// The solution

One layer that connects what we handle in fragments today

Existing crossings and control points usually treat traffic and security as separate tasks. Cerberus replaces nothing: it upgrades existing infrastructure into an intelligent control point, maps heterogeneous sensors onto a common data model, and performs risk-based pre-screening — so the vast majority of traffic passes through smoothly and automatically.

Prevention, not penalties

The focus shifts from after-the-fact fines to real-time warning and driver support at the gate — so, to protect life and health and prevent accidents, risks are caught and flagged before harm or damage is done.

Road-network protection

Overloading by heavy vehicles is a leading cause of pavement damage; real-time checking at the gate protects roads and bridges before wear turns into cost.

Traffic safety, broadly

Fatigue and sudden incapacity, emissions, loose or falling loads, accidents and breakdowns — many road-safety functions grow from one shared layer (detailed under Capabilities).

Border security

Defensive screening of concealed transport, radiological/nuclear risk and smuggling, while keeping traffic flowing.

Intelligent inference

Diverse detections are fused into a single, explainable picture — our own AI engine, fully compliant with EU directives, draws the intelligent conclusions a single sensor never could.

People stay in control

The system does the analytical heavy lifting and presents a clear, explainable signal; the officer stays in a genuine decision position and makes the call — control remains in human hands, and every decision is logged.

// What the system delivers

One layer, many public benefits. The capabilities grow from a shared sensing and analysis layer and can be extended in phases.

Road safety & a cleaner environment

Screening of overloaded and oversized vehicles — protecting roads and bridges.
Early, behaviour-based warning of driver fatigue and sudden incapacity.
Environmental (emissions) screening — cleaner air, sound vehicle condition.
Detection of loose/falling loads, unauthorised access and street racing.
Rapid detection of accidents, fire and breakdowns, with alerting.

Border and public security (defensive, dignity-centred)

Early, contactless detection of concealed human transport — with fundamentally non-biometric sensing.
Passive screening of radiological/nuclear risk.
Smuggling and illicit/dangerous-cargo detection through data fusion.
Recognition of stolen or wanted vehicles and plates.

Sensing is fundamentally non-biometric; where a situation makes biometric sensing unavoidable, it follows European ethical norms and EU regulation — controllable and fully auditable.

How we work — principles

Evidence first.

Every signal traces back to the data and the method — no black box where accountability is required.

People at the centre of decisions.

The model proposes; the expert judges.

Ethics as an engineering constraint.

Proportionality, privacy and accountability are a precondition of the system, not an afterthought.

// Cooperation, not competition

An integrator, not a new market entrant

Cerberus does not enter the road-building, sensor-manufacturing or physical-installation markets — it works with the excellent suppliers and contractors in those fields as a partner, with a focus on European manufacturers. Its added value is integration: a common data model for heterogeneous sensors, fusion, explainable risk scoring, and a trusted, auditable data store. It is manufacturer-independent and EU-compatible — built to Europe's high ethical standards, for the European market.

Compliance — a built-in advantage

Privacy by design (GDPR / LED)

Purpose limitation, data minimisation, data-subject rights, impact assessment.

EU AI Act — high risk

Risk management, human oversight, logging, transparency.

Data-retention limit

Measurement data is deleted within a short, statutory window; the identifier to be deleted is separated from the anonymous aggregate.

Cybersecurity

Critical-infrastructure-grade protection.

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One layer. Two security objectives.

Concealed human transport, with fatal outcome.

Fatigued or reckless drivers.

Illicit cargo on the Balkan route.

Radiological and nuclear smuggling at the border.

Organised cross-border vehicle theft.

Overweight freight and damage to the road network.

Dangerous goods on the roads.

Organised human smuggling and joint enforcement.

Vehicle as a weapon, a wanted offender across borders.

Drugs in the cargo.