GUNSHOT-DETECTION SYSTEM WITH BRAINS
Surveillance cameras have been around for decades, helping police look for trouble.
A Tucson-based company is adding acoustic gunshot-detection technology to listen for trouble as well - with "brains" to make sense of it all.
Safety Dynamics Inc. makes a gunfire-detection system that can recognize the sounds of 22 different ammunition rounds.
Gunshot-detection systems have existed for more than a decade, but Safety Dynamics' Sensor Enabled Neural Threat Recognition and Identification (SENTRI) system can be linked to common surveillance cameras to zoom in on the source of gunshots, helping police nab shooters.
Such systems are in use in such including Chicago; Memphis; Compton and Richmond, Calif.; Memphis; and Baton Rouge, La.
But that's just one use for the company's smart technology.
Safety Dynamics is adapting its patented "temporal pattern recognition" technology to homeland-security applications including a pilot system at a Florida airport that uses ground-based sensors to detect footsteps in high-security areas...
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