Case Study: CSC achieves rapid, real-time border surveillance for the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee with Akka (Typesafe)

Keeping Borders Safe with Akka

The Royal Netherlands Marechaussee (KMAR) needed a high‑performance system—@MIGO‑BORAS—to improve mobile monitoring on the borders with Germany and Belgium by collecting anonymous traffic profiles, selecting vehicles for inspection, and responding to quick alerts. The core challenge was aggregating heterogeneous, real‑time streams from cameras, radars and other sensors across many fixed checkpoints and patrol cars into a single, timely vehicle view while respecting bandwidth, latency and privacy constraints.

CSC built the Sensor Domain using the Typesafe Platform (Akka and Scala), applying the Actor model to process and asynchronously merge CPU‑intensive image recognition results and filter duplicate triggers across distributed nodes. Deployed on patrol‑car servers, sensor arrays and a central cluster, the fault‑tolerant solution was delivered by a small team in a fraction of the expected time, met strict performance requirements and was officially adopted nationwide in 2012, improving the KMAR’s ability to detect and respond to cross‑border incidents.

CSC

Raymond Roestenburg

Architect