The first portable/mobile versions of Safety Dynamics’ SENTRI II Gunshot detection system has been successfully deployed by Beeper Communications and Mantaro Networks, in the city of Baltimore.
This deployment marks a milestone in the advancement of this proven public safety technology, by allowing the standalone gunshot detection systems to be completely portable using Beeper’s advanced wireless cellular bonding solution, the IE 5000 Multi-WAN Channel Bonder.
The IE 5000 delivers high capacity broadband connectivity wherever and whenever, as needed by the user.
Acting as an SD-WAN bonding router, it delivers mobile bandwidth-on-demand, and includes a list of features, capabilities and applications that make it among today’s leading anywhere-to-everywhere wireless connectivity facilitators, precisely as you need it.
Safety Dynamics is an industry pioneer specializing in gunshot detection, camera and acoustic surveillance and well as other analytical sensory technology and warning systems.
The SENTRI solution uses patented acoustic algorithms identifying the precise location with plus/minus 1 degree of accuracy.
Alert and notification is delivered directly to the user within less than 1 second of an event.
The system immediately geo-locates the event and will plot it on a map, which can be integrated with the user’s command center or Network Operations Center (NOC).
The current project is an extension of a 2015 pilot project with the City of Baltimore.
The addition of the SENTRI II portable version of Safety Dynamics advanced acoustic surveillance analytical sensory technology with Beeper’s communications solution will enable further efficacy and strategic use of the systems.
For example, the City of Baltimore can now deploy quickly for “one-off” events, such as the Preakness, that occurs once a year.
Events and concerts such as the one at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas or unplanned events can now be protected more effectively and on short notice.
(Safety Dynamics SENTRI system is an advanced gunshot detection system that virtually eliminates all false alarms and zeros the camera sensor immediately on the shooter. Now available with built in facial recognition, the system offers law enforcement and military users a powerful tool to make arrests in gun crimes. Courtesy of SDBPARTNERSVIDEO and YouTube)
“SENTRI II could have detected the glass breaking at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas within less than 1 second and provided the precise location of the shooter enabling security personnel to move in more quickly and more accurately to apprehend the shooter,” explains Sally Fernandez, CEO Safety Dynamics.
“Integrating the Beeper IE 5000 bonded Cellular platform to the SENTRI system has resulted in a real market disruption in the industry…”
Fernandez went on to say “…SENTRI II changes the game for gunshot detection technology.”
“Safety Dynamics now has a complete standalone portable system, with power and network connection that offers gunshot detection and surveillance, anytime and anywhere you need it.”
Unlike competing GSD solutions, each SENTRI unit operates independently and does not rely on a larger matrix of sensors, which provides superior reliability and significant cost savings for the end user.
The integration of bonded cellular wireless communications adds unmatched flexibility, as the units are now untethered from any reliance on fixed wired infrastructure such as fiber or cable resulting in significantly reduced deployment costs.
Through the IE 5000 SENTRI II offers the end users link aggregation, bonding, load balancing and redundancy, assuring highly reliable and secure data and video transmission.
Beeper’s IE 5000 cellular bonder, is a leading wireless Comprehensive Communication Device (CCD).
“There is a clear and rapidly growing need for GSD solutions, as many major cities continue to experience gun violence on an epidemic scale, added Fernandez.
“The flexibility that the portable SENTRI II provides is unprecedented in the industry.”
“Competitive solutions are expensive and can require months of test and validation which adds to expense and can strain municipal budgets.”
“Our new solution, SENTRI II, that we have jointly developed, is rapidly deployable and immediately operational … and now can be moved at will to the areas most in need of this deterrent technology saving both time and money,” said Moshe Levinson, SVP Business Development and Special Situations, Beeper Communications, Israel.
Mantaro Networks provides best in class engineering services for the project working closely with all partners from the manufacture of the system itself to the installation.
Mantaro already sells and supports the Beeper and Safety Dynamics technology in the U.S., and will also incorporate enhanced automatic testing and emulation software.
This “24/7 Health Check” further improves upon the existing system’s maintenance, monitoring and control capabilities.
The Companies are in the process of expanding the program with 4 other US city projects in the Northeast and Midwestern US, with the next deliveries scheduled for January of 2018 to the City of Houston.
(Learn More. Safety Dynamics Original Sentri Gunshot Recognition Featured on National Geographic. Courtesy of National Geographic, PARADIGM 2000 INC and YouTube. Posted on May 31, 2015)
