Norwegian IT company bags EUR 5 mln contract for surveillance system on border with Belarus

Atea, a Norwegian-owned IT company, has won a contract worth 5.05 million euros to install a video surveillance system along a 45-kilometer stretch of Lithuania's border with Belarus.

Under the contract signed with the State Border Guard Service (SBGS) on November 18, the company has until November 2022 to install the system in the Kabeliai frontier section in Varena District.

SBGS spokesman Giedrius Misutis has told BNS that the system will allow border guards to constantly monitor and record people and objects crossing or approaching the state border.

Atea will also train the border guards to use the system.

According to the SBGS, around 61 percent of Lithuania's borders with non-EU countries are currently covered by modern monitoring equipment.

The service expects to have such systems installed along the entire border with Belarus in 2022, Misutis said.