Smart Coast Surveillance
Smart Coast Surveillance is an AI decision-support layer that turns a port's or marine reserve's existing camera network into operational awareness, detecting relevant activity, applying spatial rules, raising alerts and building evidence over time.
What is Smart Coast Surveillance?
Smart Coast Surveillance (SCS) is an AI-powered maritime decision-support system built by the Spanish company Qualitas Artificial Intelligence & Science. Its defining premise is stated on every page of its site: add intelligence, not new infrastructure. Rather than selling cameras, SCS installs an analytical layer on top of the video streams a port or a protected area already produces, and turns them into something an operations team can act on.
The product is presented through two distinct entry points. On the ports and harbours side, it covers arrivals and departures, restricted areas, berth occupancy, operational alerts, evidence and reporting, and harbour statistics. The vendor states that the system adapts to the layout, traffic patterns and operating rules of each harbour, so that arrivals, berths, restricted zones and incidents are managed from a single place. On the marine protected areas side, the same engine addresses unauthorised anchoring, restricted access, regulated fishing activity, visitor management, response prioritisation, and again evidence and reporting. The stated logic there is to detect relevant activity, apply spatial rules, and accumulate evidence over time.
SCS is not a laboratory prototype. It is one of three programs produced by the Smart Coast AI Solutions 4.0 project, run under the Ports 4.0 programme of Spain's Puertos del Estado alongside AIMI and SCS+. After three years of development and testing in real maritime and port environments, the publisher states that SCS reached Technology Readiness Level 8, which it describes as maturity in operational environments and readiness for commercial deployment. Validation took place at the Port of Las Palmas, the Port of Gijon, the ICTS-PLOCAN test site and in Barcelona, with PLOCAN and CTIM-ULPGC as research partners. The site names the Port of Las Palmas, the Port of Gijon and the Cap de Creus Natural Park in Catalonia as places where the system is already in use.
Commercially, the product is sold entirely through contact. There is no pricing page, no free plan, no trial, no sign-up and no API: the only routes in are a contact form and a request for a live demonstration.
What it does
- Detect relevant activity in video streams from cameras already installed
- Apply spatial rules specific to each site, such as restricted zones, berths and protected perimeters
- Raise operational alerts on the events that actually deserve attention
- Track vessel arrivals, departures and berth occupancy
- Flag unauthorised anchoring, restricted access and regulated fishing activity
- Prioritise the response of field and control-room teams
- Build evidence over time and produce reports and harbour statistics
When to use Smart Coast Surveillance / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Smart Coast Surveillance is the right fit.
When to use Smart Coast Surveillance
- Medium-sized port and harbour authorities that already run a camera network and need to turn it into usable operational information
- Harbour operations teams tracking arrivals, departures and berth occupancy across large fields of view
- Managers of marine protected areas dealing with unauthorised anchoring, restricted access and regulated fishing
- Public bodies that must document infringements and produce defensible evidence and reports over time
- Organisations wanting to add an analytical layer without buying and installing new surveillance hardware
When not to use Smart Coast Surveillance
- Organisations with no existing camera network, since the whole approach assumes cameras are already in place
- Buyers who need a public price, a free trial or online sign-up: none of these exist and every enquiry goes through sales
- Teams that need to integrate the system through an API, as no API and no technical documentation are published
- Users looking for a mobile application, since neither an iOS nor an Android app could be found
- Procurement teams that require published data-processing, retention or hosting commitments before evaluating a video system
How to use Smart Coast Surveillance
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Start from the SCS home page, which asks which environment you operate in and splits into two paths
- Choose the ports and harbours track or the marine protected areas track, depending on your remit
- Review the capabilities described for that track, from berth occupancy to regulated fishing activity
- Check the prerequisite implied throughout the site: an operational camera network must already be in place
- Submit the contact form on the chosen page, giving your full name, organisation, e-mail and message
- Alternatively, use the booking button to request a live demonstration of the system
- Or contact the vendor directly at the sales address or phone number shown in the page footer
- Expect scoping with the vendor, since pricing, deployment steps and integration details are not published
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Works on the camera network already installed, which removes the main capital cost of a surveillance project
- Capabilities are named and concrete, mapped onto real duties such as berth occupancy, anchoring and regulated fishing
- Configured per site, adapting to the layout, traffic patterns and operating rules of each harbour
- Named, checkable references: the Port of Las Palmas, the Port of Gijon and the Cap de Creus Natural Park
- Maturity is stated and dated: TRL 8 after three years of validation in real port and maritime environments
- Backed by a public research consortium including PLOCAN, CTIM-ULPGC and the Ports 4.0 programme
- The publisher is fully identifiable, publishing its registered name, tax number, address, capital and board
Cons
- No public pricing, no plans and no trial: the cost of the system cannot be assessed without engaging sales
- No published data processing agreement, retention rule, hosting location or subprocessor list for a product that handles video
- The privacy policy and legal notice cover the publisher's corporate website only, not the platform itself
- A very thin product site of three real pages, with no technical documentation and no detailed case studies
- No API and no mobile application, both established by probing rather than assumed
- The publisher's footer shows two unlabelled quality badges, one of which is an innovation seal that expired in November 2023
- The product site's sitemap still lists a dozen unrelated e-commerce template pages, a sign of an unfinished site
Pricing & Plans
No price is published. There is no pricing page on the product site, no plan is described anywhere, and no amount appears in any of the pages collected from either the product or the publisher. There is no free plan and no free trial, and none is announced as unavailable either. The system is sold through direct commercial contact: a live demonstration is requested through a booking link, or an enquiry is sent through the contact form. Prospective buyers should expect a quotation scoped to their site rather than a published rate.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Smart Coast Surveillance handles your data.
GDPR overview
The publisher explicitly claims compliance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and with Spain's LOPD GDD (Ley Organica 3/2018). Its privacy policy sets out the usual principles, lists the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and portability, and points complainants to the Agencia Espanola de Proteccion de Datos. No data protection officer is named; rights are exercised through the general address info@qaisc.com. Being established in Spain, the company needs no Article 27 representative. The decisive limitation is scope. All of this covers the corporate website only. No published document addresses the platform itself, which by design processes video of port and coastal areas. No data processing agreement is offered, no subprocessor list is published, and no retention rule covers recorded footage.
Who owns the data?
The published privacy policy names Qualitas Artificial Intelligence & Science SA (NIF A76371145, Las Palmas, Spain) as data controller, with rights exercised by writing to info@qaisc.com and the Spanish AEPD named as supervisory authority. That document, however, describes only the publisher's corporate website: it states that browsing requires no personal data and that data is supplied solely through contact forms or e-mail. Nothing published describes who owns, controls or may reuse the footage, detections and evidence processed by the Smart Coast Surveillance platform itself. No service agreement and no data processing agreement exist for the product, so ownership of operational data would have to be settled contractually with the vendor.
Reuse rights
No terms of service govern the product, so the site says nothing about what a customer may do with the detections, statistics or evidence the system produces. The only usage rules published are those of the publisher's corporate website, whose legal notice reserves all rights and forbids reproduction, permanent storage or redistribution of site content for public or commercial purposes without prior written consent. The privacy policy declares consent as the sole legal basis, limits collected data to identification details, and names Google Analytics as the only third-party recipient. Any right to reuse operational data would therefore have to be negotiated directly with the vendor, as no published document grants or restricts it.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
No hosting information is published for the platform. Neither the product site nor the publisher's site names a country, a region, a cloud provider or a data centre for the footage, detections and evidence that Smart Coast Surveillance processes. The only third-country transfer mentioned anywhere is Google Analytics, whose data is transmitted to servers in the United States, and that concerns audience measurement on the publisher's corporate website rather than the platform. The publisher's information security policy, which is aligned with the Spanish National Security Framework, refers to cloud services in general terms without locating anything. For a system that handles video of port and coastal areas, the absence of any stated jurisdiction is a material gap and should be raised directly with the vendor before any procurement decision.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Smart Coast Surveillance.
- This is a surveillance system: pointed at public quays, anchorages and protected shorelines, it observes people as well as vessels, and the vendor publishes no rule on what is recorded or for how long
- The product builds evidence used to support enforcement, so detection errors and gaps in coverage can have real consequences for the individuals concerned
- Automation bias is a genuine risk when a team stops watching feeds and starts trusting alerts: the system decides what deserves attention, and anything it misses is not seen
- Nothing published states where operational data is hosted, who the subprocessors are or how long footage is kept, and no data processing agreement is offered
- The publisher's privacy policy and legal notice cover its corporate website only, so any data-protection assurance drawn from them does not extend to the platform
- The two quality badges in the publisher's footer carry no standard and no certificate number, and one of them, a Spanish innovative-SME seal, states in the image itself that it expired on 24 November 2023
- The system's own legal identity sits on a separate domain from the product site, so buyers should confirm exactly which entity they are contracting with
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Impossible to assess from what is published, and likely to require a project rather than a self-service setup. The vendor describes the principle only: the system is placed over an existing camera network and configured to the layout, traffic patterns and operating rules of the site. That configuration work implies vendor involvement, and an operational camera network is a practical prerequisite. No installation guide, prerequisite list, integration documentation, timeline or professional-services offer is published, and there is no way to start without contacting the vendor.
Deployment
Supported languages
Behind Smart Coast Surveillance
Social
Resources
All the official URLs gathered for verification and reference.
Frequently asked questions
What does Smart Coast Surveillance actually do?
Do I need to install new cameras?
What can it do in a port or harbour?
What can it do in a marine protected area?
Where is it already deployed?
How much does it cost?
Is there an API or a mobile application?
Who publishes Smart Coast Surveillance?
How mature is the technology?
What does the vendor say about the data the system processes?
Should you pick Smart Coast Surveillance?
Smart Coast Surveillance is a narrow, credible product rather than a broad platform, and that focus is its main strength. It does one thing: it places an AI decision layer over camera networks that ports and marine protected areas have already paid for, and it converts them into alerts, spatial rules, evidence and statistics. The capabilities are named rather than vague, they map onto real duties such as berth occupancy, unauthorised anchoring and regulated fishing, and the references are checkable, with the Port of Las Palmas, the Port of Gijon and the Cap de Creus Natural Park identified by name. Its origin in a completed public research programme, with a stated Technology Readiness Level 8 after three years of validation in real environments, gives it a rare degree of documented maturity for a tool of this size.
What sits opposite is a very thin commercial presence. The product site is three real pages. There is no price, no plan, no trial, no API, no mobile application and no technical documentation. Most significantly for a video surveillance system, nothing published describes how footage is retained, where it is hosted, who processes it or under what contract. The publisher's privacy policy and legal notice govern its corporate website and stop there, and no data processing agreement is offered. Two unlabelled quality badges in the publisher's footer add little, one of them an innovation seal that expired in November 2023.
The technology looks real and deployed; the commercial and contractual package around it is not yet published. Buyers should treat the site as an introduction and take pricing, data handling and deployment terms directly to the vendor.
- Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.
- Opens in a new window.