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Gunshot Detection & Active-Shooter Tracking

Acoustic detection tied to camera estates so a detected round could be correlated with video and a subject followed rather than merely located.

Also known as ShotSpotter, Acoustic Detection

Left to right is time. Each row is one of the 4 disciplines this one worked alongside, ordered so kindred disciplines sit next to each other rather than alphabetically — a landscape only means anything if neighboring rows belong together. Height is the work running in that domain in that year, weighted by what failure would have cost — life-safety ×3, a statutory obligation ×2.2, the estate itself ×1.5, an evaluation ×1. Every project declares which of those it was, so each ridge traces to an entry you can open and disagree with. Only the work that used this technology is counted, so what shows here is the company it kept rather than the record around it. Height and color are on the record-wide scale rather than this page’s own, so a modest estate draws a modest landscape and any two of these pages can be read against each other.

Architected and tested the feasibility of a gunshot detection and active-shooter tracking pilot with GraceMark Consulting and multiple technology vendors — tying ShotSpotter acoustic detection to Bosch camera estates and Genetec video management, so a detected round could be correlated with video and a subject followed across a site rather than simply located at a point.

Each product worked on its own. The real question was whether the seams between them held under the only conditions that matter here, which are seconds rather than minutes and a subject who is moving.

Gunshot detection also featured in the municipal mesh design years earlier, carried alongside residential broadband so one build served two purposes.

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