Company: Omnilert, Leesburg, VA
Nomination Submitted by: Powelson Communications
Company Description: Omnilert is the industry’s most effective AI-powered active shooter prevention solution that combines early visual gun detection with a proven rapid response that can save time and lives. The Omnilert platform empowers existing security cameras with monitoring software that can identify gun threats at first sight and then activate automated response capabilities that maximize each critical second.
Nomination Category: New Product & Service Categories - Business Technology
Nomination Sub Category: Emerging Technology
 Nomination Title: Omnilert's Gun Detect
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February 21, 2024
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The third generation of Omnilert’s AI visual gun detection system features advancements in hardware efficiency, enterprise management and gun detection accuracy to better save lives in an active shooter situation. The system can identify a weapon in a fraction of a second. Omnilert’s Monitoring service can then verify in as little as three seconds and activate a response in two more seconds that includes dispatching police, locking doors, sounding alarms and automating other responses to notify those in harm’s way and save lives. A unique capability is sending both still images and video clips when a threat is detected to provide more context to security personnel and first responders. It delivers ongoing situational awareness about the location and details of the shooter so life-saving decisions can be made.
Key enhancements to this newest release include:
- Superior Hardware Efficiency – Omnilert Gun Detect's AI architecture has been optimized to boost performance 10X for any given GPU over its original architecture, enabling more camera streams to be processed per server.
- Better Enterprise Management – New clustering enhancements ensure enterprise deployment to tens of thousands of cameras across thousands of sites and servers manageable from a central console. This simplifies management of large deployments across school districts, healthcare systems and throughout retail, commercial, government and corporate enterprises.
- Improved Detection Accuracy – The neural network model is in its 36th revision, with continual learning and refinements from curated organic video through real world customer deployments over its five years of development. This accuracy is unmatched in the industry compared to solutions created from image datasets that rely on synthetic/green screens or emulated data for training which produces artifacts not found in real life. Omnilert's proprietary data centric AI model does not simply compare objects to a database of known gun images. It is based on raw video footage captured directly from security cameras in various real-life settings around the world and reflects the genuine complexities and nuances of everyday environments such as changing lighting conditions to specific human behaviors. This ensures higher detection accuracy and efficiency in processing which translates into lower hardware requirements.
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As the only solution to deliver a unique combination of detection, verification, activation and notification, Omnilert Gun Detect now protects hundreds of schools, universities, hospitals, retail and commercial buildings, and other organization facilities and campuses around the country. In 2023, sales of Omnilert Gun Detect more than doubled and Omnilert increased its sales pipeline by over four times.
Below are some of the industry recognitions and customer accolades that Omnilert has received:
- Omnilert Gun Detect won the 2023 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards from American Security Today (AST). Link here.
- Jason Stoddard, director of school safety and security at Charles County Public Schools in Maryland spoke to CBS News (link here) about his district’s use of Omnilert Gun Detect. According to Stoddard, “This technology provides real-time detection and advance warning before a situation occurs, which provides our school officials with valuable time to react to a possible safety threat. We chose this software because it was the only solution that could provide the unique combination of early gun detection, human verification, mass communication, and an automated response. Each of these features help strengthen the school system’s comprehensive approach to keeping our children and staff safe.”
- The Baltimore County Public School District (BCPS) is integrating Omnilert Gun Detect into 7,000 cameras district-wide. Speaking to NBC News, the BCPS Superintendent of Schools, Myriam Yarbrough stated “What this system does is it helps us to provide emergency response right away. In a lot of cases where there have been horrific incidents, every second and every minute counts, and you have people who are either frozen in the moment, or you have people who assume someone else has called 911.” See link here.
- In 2023, Evolv technology announced that it was integrating Omnilert Gun Detect into its technology. According to Steve Steve Morandi, VP of Product at Evolv Technology, “We tested the Omnilert Gun Detect analytics using many kinds of guns, in different environments inside and outside, and under varying lighting conditions. Throughout all our testing, we were very impressed with the accuracy of the analytics and low false positive rate. Link here.
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Recent Release discussing latest generation
https://www.omnilert.com/blog/3rd-gen-ai-visual-gun-detection-system
Broadcast clips in 2023 featuring Omnilert Gun Detect:https://www.omnilert.com/blog/3rd-gen-ai-visual-gun-detection-system
NBC Nashville
https://www.wsmv.com/2023/02/28/metro-nashville-public-schools-looks-add-gun-detection-software/
ABC Virginia
https://wjla.com/news/crisis-in-the-classrooms/new-technology-help-charles-county-schools-detect-guns-prevent-shootings-maryland-gun-detect-dmv-ai-artificial-intelligence-detector
CBS Washington DC
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/maryland/charles-co-public-schools-add-ai-weapon-detectors/65-e9285d08-9ad4-4a33-aae5-39633f7d05d5
FOX News Maryland
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/charles-county-installing-ai-gun-detection-software-at-schools
NBC Washington DC
https://www.omnilert.com/hubfs/Videos/NBC4-CCPS.mp4
CBS Austin
https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/ai-gun-detection-technology-revolutionizes-school-safety-one-year-after-uvalde-shooting-omnilert-ai-gun-detection-school-safety-technology
NBC Baltimore
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/security-system-gun-detection-baltimore-county-schools-omnilert/44892784#
NBC Arizona
https://www.12news.com/video/news/local/valley/valley-school-to-use-ai-to-take-gun-safety-to-the-next-level/75-91cfeb87-9a7f-4e3c-ad69-26db4055836a
NBC Virginia
https://www.nbc29.com/2023/09/25/virginia-company-starts-ai-software-detect-weapons/
Press Clip
Evolv Technology Integrates Omnilert’s AI Gun Detection Technology into Evolv Extend
https://www.securitysales.com/product-news/omnilert-evolv-gsx-2023/
Other articles/reference materials:
https://www.omnilert.com/blog/human-monitoring-impossible-task
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/security-system-gun-detection-baltimore-county-schools-omnilert/44892784
https://www.omnilert.com/blog/evolv-integrates-omnilert-gun-detect
Sonoran University Case study - https://www.omnilert.com/sonoran-university-case-study
https://www.omnilert.com/blog/omnilert-wins-2023-astors-homeland-security-award
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