Setting the Stage for a Safer Fan Experience with Gunshot Detection
By Joe Kierych
Festival in Las Vegas, venue managers have been looking at shifts in security protocols to better prepare for the worst without lessening the - dures were as securely guarded as a sports team’s playbook, distributed only on a strict need-to-know basis. Today, promoting any advances in the safety and security of your venue can become a competitive mar- keting advantage. A carefully crafted messaging campaign that shares your commitment to the safety and security of your venue can help fans feel safer and keep ticket sales up. To truly take advantage of such a strategy, you need to back it up
that evolve along with modern technology developments and security systems upgrades. You also need to pair with a systems integrator that can strategically help identify and deliver the integrated Physical Se- curity measures to help prevent and respond to threats before they can turn into a crowd panic incident. These should include:
that don’t increase cue times for your guests • A sophisticated Video Management and Video Analytics System
to proactively address potential crowd threats • A Gunshot Detection System to quickly detect shots and report their location for rapid response to a shooting incident • A robust Incident Command System to quickly respond to and help mitigate threats that do materialize You might be surprised to see Gunshot Detection on my list of tech-
nologies, but with this rising threat, it’s my opinion that the time has come for us to admit that Video and Access Control alone, while criti- cal, are not enough to respond to shooting events.
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GSOC already has cameras cued to the incident area and a descrip- tion of the perpetrator? When it comes to addressing the active shoot- er threat, gunshot detection is the most advanced technology to enter the commercial market in recent years, and it evolved from real world
Government Sponsored Innovation for Military Applications As a capability, gunshot detection was born out of a U.S. Govern- sponsored the development of prototype systems that paired acoustic muzzle blast and ballistic shock wave signatures to accurately predict - tems were developed and tested, but it wasn’t until the Iraq War in 2003 that the need for these systems became critical. While traveling in noisy Humvees, U.S. troops were battling against
an aggressive insurgency and often didn’t know they were being shot at until a fellow soldier was hit. Knowing they were being shot at, and being able to identify where the shots were coming from, would give them a lifesaving and tactical advantage. DARPA selected the compa- ny that had produced the most successful technology from their trials, BBN Technologies out of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and challenged
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