them to rapidly develop vehicle gunshot detection systems that could to report within one second of a shot and do so on vehicles traveling The result was what is now known as the Boomerang Shooter Detec-
Gunshot Detection for Commercial Applications Fast forward to 2018, and the news is full of stories of schools, work- active shooter as the enemy. Active shooter drills, now commonplace, were not being practiced in our schools until after the tragic Sandy Hook shooting in 2012. Innovations in ballistic glass, panic buttons, - - dent. That year Christian Connors, a key team member from the Boo- merang deployment days, heard his elementary school aged children talking about the active shooter drills they had in school. Knowing had an obligation to investigate the development of an indoor gunshot detection system. Connors and his team of engineers from BBN Technologies took the Boomerang technology, a large array of microphones appropriate for a Humvee, and developed it into a small, discrete device that can be implemented into ceilings and walls and look no more intrusive than a switch plate and called it the Guardian Indoor Active Shooter Detection System. Instead of alerting soldiers in battle, these systems help alert building occupants and law enforcement with the same Boomerang performance adapted for indoor acoustic environments - other security systems.
Gunshot Detection and Integration Capabilities Although originally developed for the school market, the overwhelm- corporations, airports, and other public venues including retail facili- ties and convention centers. Most of these sites have integrated Guard- ian systems to cue video surveillance cameras directly to the incident area, initiate lockdown procedures, populate emergency incident com- mand centers with shot location information, send alerts to security radios, and more. The systems are installed by the company’s network IAVM member servicing close to half of the professional North Amer- ican venues with building control and security systems.
- curity systems, you’ll want to sit down with your systems integration partner and your security team to best plan what actions you want shot detection to activate and who should receive them. Some con- siderations for planning the integration strategy to include gunshot detection include: • Do you want cameras pulled to the incident area? • Should security guards receive radio alerts? If so, what should they
say?
Crisis Response teams? •What is your relationship with local law enforcement? • Are they willing to do training drills with you and your security team that incorporate automated alert response? If you want to remain on the forefront of technology that helps make safety and security of your venue a selling point, I strongly sug- gest you take a closer look at gunshot detection. As a part of their com- recently partnered with Johnson Controls1 to install the Guardian installed in both the lobby and the main training room, integrated with responders can practice response based on the intelligence gathered. This makes for a fantastic opportunity for visiting venue managers to As venue managers, your challenge is to balance the adoption of
that all attendees, as well as your employees end vendors, have a safe environment to work and enjoy events. When it comes to adopting technologies and integrations to address the evolving active shooter threat, I urge you to lean on your trusted security consultants, tech- nology providers, and systems integrators. Demand that they research and vet out innovative technologies, understand the integration ca- pabilities, and can provide best practices for implementation so that when your security budget allows, you can quickly make decisions to adopt and implement the technology. FM
Joe Kierych is a retired SWAT/Police Instructor and Global Business Development Manager for Johnson Controls. Joe’s career public safety includes roles specializ- ing in Law Enforcement Special Operations, Counter-Terrorism, and the Executive Protection of three U.S. Presidents.
1 Johnson Controls Security Solutions LLC IAVM 35
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