Sarasota County Schools Chooses Omnilert Gun Detection System
Sarasota Fla Sept 1 2024
Omnilert, an active shooter solutions provider, announced Sarasota County Schools in Florida is deploying its Omnilert Gun Detection System to monitor its over 4,800 security cameras throughout the school district, representing the largest deployment of its kind in Florida.
Omnilert Gun Detect is an AI visual gun detection system that provides 24/7 monitoring with a near-instant response at the first sight of a gun with automation capabilities that can lock doors, notify police, and trigger alarms to ensure the best possible outcomes in the event of an active shooter incident.
Sarasota County Schools completed a successful deployment in one of its high schools this past year, which received positive results and responses from students and parents, the company says. It is now in the process of deploying the system with the district’s entire camera network. Sarasota County Schools educates and protects over 45,000 students across 56 schools and employs more than 5,200 teachers and staff, including its own police department and school resource officers.
“Maintaining a safe learning environment is paramount for our school district,” said Terry Connor, Superintendent of Schools for Sarasota County. “Our district is fortunate to have a safety conscious School Board and community who understands this need and invests in solutions that will make for safer schools. It is critical to have additional layers of technology such as Omnilert Gun Detect working behind the scenes to ensure the safety our students and staff every day of the school year.”
“Omnilert Gun Detect clearly fit our requirements for flexible detection verification and response escalation with the ability to activate our existing infrastructure of safety systems,” said Sean O’Keefe, Director of Security at Sarasota County Schools. “Accurate gun detections and fast verifications are only the beginning of a response. It is critical for us to share the intelligence from Omnilert with our safety systems immediately to ensure we maximize as many seconds or minutes as possible for our police and security teams to respond to a potential situation and to protect lives.”
Omnilert Gun Detect is an AI system that detects handguns and long guns throughout a campus, both indoors and outdoors. Once a gun is detected, it sends an alert to a designated person at either Omnilert Monitoring centers or the customer’s security operations center to verify detections.
When a threat is confirmed, Omnilert Gun Detect triggers a series of alerts that sets security systems into motion and police into action to protect those in harm’s way. This solution gives emergency response teams advance warning before shots are fired and delivers precise information on the location and a photo and video of the potential shooter for a more effective response.
Omnilert Gun Detect integrates with video management systems, access control systems, emergency mass notification solutions, audio and video communication platforms, and more. Omnilert’s software can be deployed with any existing IP-based camera and can monitor spaces that other safety technologies miss such as exterior grounds and parking lots, according to the company. The software was designed with privacy concerns in mind so there is no use of biometrics like facial recognition and the live video feeds never leave the school premises.
For more information, visit https://omnilert.com/.
