Gunshot surveillance and detection systems.
You will know from other areas of the website, that I have an interest in surveillance. Normally, this implies camera / optical surveillance. Now, this is being extended to ‘audio detection’ of gunshot.
Having described the community reaction and continued public disquiet on the streets of Nottingham. With the increase of gun crime and now several murders. Systems are being developed, to assist the police in the detection of gunshots in urban areas.
The Army has had these systems ‘cooking’ for a little while now
Shotguard: Gunshot Detection and Localisation – Army Technology
http://www.army-technology.com/contractors/surveillance/metravib
Police and local authority systems are now being developed for static and continuous monitoring in areas where gun use and crime in general is regarded as high. Obviously, with the sort of story I’ve just described, [in the previous blog entry] these systems will be increasing deployed alongside the existing CCTV networks.
Shot Spotter: World’s first proven gunshot location system.
http://www.shotspotter.com/g-pr-spie.html
Here you can see some ‘screengrabs’ of the software It gives you some idea of the capabilities.
