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December 11, 2005

Gunshot Cameras

A story on gunshot detection camera system (SENTRI) is in Government Technology. It covers the basics on how the system works and its creators. The best nugget comes out of the discussion on the chicago deployment and notes that it is currently in a pilot state.

"Pilot stage is really a technical term," said Bryan Baker, chief executive officer of Safety Dynamics, which produces the gun recognition technology. "When they define something as a pilot, that means there's still a certain confidentiality about information. Once it gets reclassified as production and not pilot, then all the information becomes nonconfidential."

So maybe once its out of pilot state, the rest of us will get more data on how well these systems are operating. The article also suggests what the next step maybe in these systems:

Several companies are creating a video analysis component that would recognize a shooting scene -- the position someone would be in when holding a gun, someone lying on the ground or a group of people running. "They can digitize what somebody holding a gun would look like," Baker said. "Then they can lock in and follow him. When you put all these things together, it can be successful in protecting parameters. You make it increasingly difficult for an intruder to escape notice."

Posted by rshah at December 11, 2005 07:40 PM

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