Tag: security guards
iDter preventing vehicle theft, vandalism with AI detection
September 28, 2023SSN Staff
SAN MATEO, Calif. – iDter, a technology company using AI-based detection says it’s making a difference, stopping intruders in its tracks and combating rising vehicle crime.
With iDter’s Nio Guardians, security surveillance devices utilizing AI, which the company said act as security guards, users can position them on buildings and light poles to cover every square foot of a property and confront trespassers within seconds of arrival. In the event of a trespass the units...
UMC Health System deploys ZeroEyes to deter and mitigate gun-related violence
July 18, 2023SSN Staff
PHILADELPHIA – ZeroEyes have announced that they’ve deployed their AI-based gun detection video analytics platform with UMC Health System to protect facility patients, employees, and visitors against gun-related violence.
Gun-related workplace violence is on the rise in the United States where studies from the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that violence against healthcare workers is 12 times higher than in the overall workforce, and...
SSN Interview with BISD Director of Safety and Security Ty Morrow
February 17, 2023Ken Showers, Managing Editor
BRAZOSPORT, Texas – In early February ZeroEyes announced the deployment of its A.I. gun detection platform at the Brazosport Independent School District (BISD). As a result, Security Systems News sat down with the district’s emergency manager and Director of Safety and Security, Ty Morrow.
SSN: Mr. Morrow, could you tell us a little bit about BISD?
Morrow: Our district encompasses about 11,700 kids and we've got 24 facilities - 19 of them are instructional facilities...
Critical Juncture
October 26, 2022Ken Showers, Managing Editor
I don’t have a fun or whimsical title for this week’s blog. I changed it once already because the original title listed too close to something repugnant that I’d rather not invoke. I can’t have any fun with this one this week because I’m talking about school shootings.
On Oct. 24, a former student assaulted the Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis Missouri killing two and injuring an additional seven people. It follows in the wake of the tragedy...
Viewpoint, AlliedBarton team up on 'blended solution'
November 13, 2013Leif Kothe
LOWELL, Mass.—Viewpoint Monitoring, a video monitoring company with commercial accounts across North America, has seen positive early results with its “blended solution,” which involves a partnership with AlliedBarton, a security guard company traditionally viewed as a business rival.“We took our time and figured out how to do this properly, because it's a fairly delicate partnership in that the world sees us as competitors, and in some sense we are,” Brad Gordon, CEO...