Shooter Detection Systems to empower communities with #TakeAction campaign

ROWLEY, Mass. – Shooter Detection Systems (SDS), an Alarm.com company, introduced a campaign at CES 2024 to empower individuals to make their schools, workplaces, and communities safer by employing gunshot detection technology.

SDS said that in an active shooter situation, gunshot detection is highly effective at mitigating injury and loss of life, however they also said its often overlooked by federal funding sources that have traditionally supported a wide range of preventative gun violence measures. The #TakeAction initiative from SDS aims to educate individuals about gunshot detection’s crucial role in maintaining safe and secure spaces, as well as provide specific tools for consumers to advocate for gunshot detection to their school, government, and workplace leaders.

“An average of one death can occur every 10 seconds during an active shooter event. So when a shooting starts, reducing the time it takes for authorities to get to the shooter is the most vital dimension,” said Stephen Carney, president, Shooter Detection Systems. “With gunshot detection technology, responders can know immediately that a gun has been fired and in what area of the building the shot occurred.”

Carney stepped into the role of president for SDS earlier this year, having previously served as vice president of global project management for HID Global. He talked about his new role with SDS as “…extremely meaningful,” and described the company’s mission as essential.

The #TakeAction initiative has additionally been designed to provide people with the resources to personally lobby their place of business or child’s school to deploy gunshot detection technology to create a safer environment that can alert law enforcement in the event of an active shooter incident.

SDS said that its gunshot technology enables the communication of critical incident details within 10 seconds to 911 to alert law enforcement as well as to individuals at the scene, using ResponderLink, a software-embedded integration with their sister company, Noonlight. SDS software alerts are intercepted by trained safety agents at Noonlight who provide a live URL dashboard of incident information to the 911 operator, including the push of continuous incident information such as where the latest shots were fired.

“By combining purpose-built acoustic and infrared sensors with proprietary detection algorithms, SDS’ Active Shooter Intelligence accurately detects, verifies, and validates a gunshot with 99.9% accuracy, and virtually zero false alarms,” the company wrote in a release.

SDS will be participating in a pair of media events at CES. The first event is CES Unveiled, which will be held on Sunday, Jan. 7, from 5 to 8:30 p.m. at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. The second event is Pepcom, which will take place on Monday, Jan. 8, from 7 to 10:30 p.m. at The Mirage.

For more information about SDS and its gunshot detection platform, you can visit shooterdetectionsystems.com.