EU countries use an array of specialised technology to monitor borders and deter refugees

In use

Surveillance centres

Air surveillance

Deterrents

Sensors and cameras

Trialled

Artificial intelligence

AI lie detectors that scan the faces of asylum seekers as they answer questions have been trialled in Hungary, Greece and Latvia

Latvia

Poland has sent automated texts telling people not to attempt entry from Belarus, as well as planning to build a 200km border wall

Poland

Austria

Hungary

Romania

Croatia

Italy

Greece

Greece has deployed a sound cannon that can direct blasts of up to 162 decibels towards refugees trying to cross its border with Turkey

Malta

Frontex is surveilling the Mediterranean with drones made by Israeli arms companies

In use

AI lie detectors that scan the faces of asylum seekers as they answer questions have been trialled in Hungary, Greece and Latvia

Latvia

Air surveillance

Lithuania

Sensors and cameras

Belarus

Surveillance centres

Poland has sent automated texts telling people not to attempt entry from Belarus, as well as planning to build a 200km border wall

Deterrents

Poland

Trialled

Ukraine

Artificial intelligence

Slovakia

Austria

Hungary

Romania

Serbia

Croatia

Italy

Bulgaria

Turkey

Frontex is surveilling the

Mediterranean with drones made by Israeli arms companies

Greece has deployed a sound cannon that can direct blasts of up to 162 decibels towards refugees trying to cross its border with Turkey

Greece

Malta

In use

Air surveillance

AI lie detectors that scan the faces of asylum seekers as they answer questions have been trialled in Hungary, Greece and Latvia

Latvia

Sensors and cameras

Lithuania

Surveillance centres

Belarus

Deterrents

Poland has sent automated texts telling people not to attempt entry from Belarus, as well as planning to build a 200km border wall

Trialled

Poland

Artificial intelligence

Ukraine

Slovakia

Austria

Hungary

Romania

Serbia

Croatia

Italy

Bulgaria

Turkey

Frontex is surveilling the

Mediterranean with drones made by Israeli arms companies

Greece has deployed a sound cannon that can direct blasts of up to 162 decibels towards refugees trying to cross its border with Turkey

Greece

Malta