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false alert solution available in the
March 2018 Edition
marketplace.
Through its unique hardware
design, Guardian is easily installed
into existing building infrastructures
through flush wall/ceiling mount
or surface mount for impenetrable
structures and the system configu-
ration is fully scalable to the area of
coverage desired.
The Guardian sensor’s su-
perior acoustic technology
in this dual modality offers
the highest rate of detection
while bringing the number
of false alerts to zero.
With a nation on edge in fear of the active shooter,
false alerts and uninformed, panicked evacuations
based on false alerts would not be tolerated.
When the difficulties in applying acoustic technology in an indoor
environment were examined and thoroughly tested, the acoustic
technology alone was found to have an unacceptable false alert
rate.
Even with the robust capabilities of the outdoor system, which
detects gunshots and filters out loud noises on vehicles in the
battlefield and even on helicopters, an acoustics-only approach for
indoor was insufficient.
The Guardian System was built with security systems integration
in mind, offering organizations flexible notification options from
the smallest school notifying local law enforcement to the largest
enterprise customer notifying global security teams immediately of
a shooting event.
SDS has key strategic partnerships with Tyco Security Products,
Johnson Controls, Genetec, Everbridge, and Avigilon and proven,
fielded integrations with leading-edge security systems such as
VMS, access control, and mass notification, and simple contact
integrations for zone alerting to alarm panels and automated alerts
to digital security radios.
The team’s efforts resulted in the Guardian
System, incorporating the proven military
acoustic technology fine-tuned for indoor
gunshot acoustic signatures with infrared
gunfire flash detection to produce the
world’s highest performing, fully auto-
matic, and most accurate indoor gunshot
detection technology available.
The Guardian Sensor validates an acoustic
bang by looking for infrared fla sh, creating the
only zero false alert solution available in the
marketplace.
The Guardian Sensor validates an acoustic bang
by looking for infrared flash, creating the only zero
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