ZeroEyes, an artificial intelligence (AI) gun detection software company, has partnered with Fort Smith Public Schools in Arkansas to prevent potential firearm threats.
Human-verified AI gun detection technology integrates AI with existing security cameras to detect firearms with the company's primary mission of preventing mass and active shootings within schools.
JT Wilkins, senior vice president of sales at ZeroEyes, told Fox News Digital that the system asks a question. “Is there a gun in this picture or not?”
ZeroEyes' human-verified AI weapons detection technology. (zero eyes)
“We take a snapshot in time that will be sent to our 24/7/365 manned operations center, which is staffed primarily by former law enforcement officers and military veterans to make a very quick decision.” .
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Privacy barriers and bike racks maintain a perimeter at a memorial outside Robb Elementary School, after video was released showing the May shooting inside the school in Uvalde, Texas, on July 13, 2022. (REUTERS/Kaylee Greenlee Beal)
ZeroEyes software is used in thousands of buildings for hundreds of clients in 40 states and counting.
Wilkins said the process takes three to five seconds from initial detection to the alert reaching the hands of ZeroEyes end users and customers.
The company was founded in 2018 by a team of Navy SEALs and technologists following the active shooter incident at the Parkland, Florida, school and was created to protect people from having to face similar circumstances.
ZeroEyes' 24/7/365 manned operations center. (zero eyes)
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Martin Mahan, deputy superintendent of public schools in Fort Smith, Arkansas, told Fox News Digital that “with this new partnership, those cameras will become a proactive measure to address threat mitigation.”
“The first implementation of the five-year plan is AI camera systems, which our board approved during our last board meeting on February 26. This is a partnership with ZeroEyes that equips us to carry a certain number of our cameras and will use most, if not all, exterior-facing cameras, he stated.
Mahan added that Fort Smith Public Schools is equipped with many levels of security, but they are all reactive responses.
A Forsyth County Sheriff's deputy directs law enforcement officers at the scene of Mount Tabor High School on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Authorities say a student was killed in a shooting at a North Carolina high school and a suspect has been taken into custody. (Walt Unks/The Winston-Salem Journal via AP)
“We have many layers to mitigating a threat to one of our schools…the recent development around the artificial smart camera system is another layer of mitigation to create another level of safety for our staff and students,” Mahan said.
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The school district has its own police force, entry security measures around the doors, a reunification plan to unite family with students and staff have “stop the bleeding” training.
Wilkins said the operations center is critical in adding context to alert situations, ensuring they receive the appropriate response.
“We're not going to send in the cavalry with a Nerf gun or something. They're going to use a different alert mechanism to tell the school district… that there's a Nerf gun… a water gun or a squirt gun, some type of weapon.” of soft air that is a type of non-lethal threat on your campus… that prevents a an intensified response by potential law enforcement officials,” he said.
