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Volume 21
March 2018 Edition
Shooter Detection Systems
Proud to Protect University
Students
Award-Winning Gunshot Detection System chosen to alert police, auto-
mate surveillance cameras in case of a shooting event on campus.
Shooter Detection Systems (SDS), the Platinum Award
Winner for Best Gunshot Detection Solution in the 2017
‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program, has been
selected by a 20,000 student University in the Southeast,
for installation of the company’s Guardian Indoor Active
Shooter Detection and Reporting System.
mediately to shots fired with the location of the event, as well
as activate cameras in the area to give campus police a visual
overview of the event.
The Active Shooter Problem and the Gunshot Detec-
tion Solution
The SDS system was chosen over several bidders due to its
proven performance history at other large universities, its
zero-false alert history and its certified integrations with
several of the University’s current security technologies.
The system of gunshot detection sensors will be installed
throughout the campus buildings to alert campus police im-
(Guardian Indoor Active Shooter Detection System acts on real-time gunshot
detection and alerting protocols, reducing response time and saving lives in the
event of an active shooter incident)
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