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With Florida students preparing to return to class, many school districts are implementing a high-tech system the uses AI to scan security cameras for weapons.
The high-tech platform, ZeroEyes, uses artificial intelligence to identify possible firearms and then alert law enforcement immediately.
Here’s how it works according to the company ZeroEyes. "The AI software is layered over schools’ pre-existing security cameras. If it detects a brandished gun, it immediately sends images to the company's 24/7 Operations Center, where trained military and law enforcement officers rapidly review it to determine whether the threat is real. If it is, they push a button that immediately informs on-site responders and the police. The entire process takes only 3-5 seconds."
Sam Alaimo of ZeroEyes says the AI gun detection technology is already protecting students in schools all over the country, including Florida’s Hernando, Leon, Volusia and Seminole County districts.
“That image of the shooter is going allows first responders to know where to go, who they’re looking for and exactly when that person was at that exact location,” ZeroEyes co-founder Sam Alaimo said. “Within three to five seconds, law enforcement can get that alert, get to the location of that shooter and potentially stop that shooter from squeezing the trigger.”
The annual cost for a school district to use ZeroEyes is around $50,000.
Alaimo says the ZeroEyes AI system has identified thousands of real and fake guns brought into schools and other locations nationwide. And the company has assisted with several arrests.