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JAMES BELDOCK: Twenty percent of the time that a gun
is fired in the United States somebody calls 911.
The other eighty percent of the time nobody calls.
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SST builds the ShotSpotter
gunfire detection and location technology,
designed to tell people who need to know,
the precise street address,
information about whether the gunshot took place
behind the building or in front of the building,
the number of rounds and even
the number of people doing the shooting.
So we can tell a responding officer that there
were two shooters each of whom fired 10 rounds
in front of the building at 123 Main Street.
When a gun is fired the sound from that gun radiates out.
We place a small number of sensors throughout the city.
So as that sound radiates out,
the ShotSpotter server compares the time of arrival
of that sound and calculates the precise location.
Data from that incident is reviewed here
at our San Francisco Bay Area 24-hour Review Center,
and then that information is published
to law enforcement or security professionals
whose job it is to respond to that gunshot.
All of that takes less than one minute
and we provide precise information.
The connection between each ShotSpotter sensor
and our data center is a connection
over the AT&T machine-to-machine network.
We also use the management tools provided by AT&T
to manage all of those connections.
Prior to the ShotSpotter system
being so quick to get us that information,
we would have to wait until dispatch was able
to get it from people calling in.
The fact that this comes in so quickly
and provides pin point information of
where it's coming from, is huge.
JAMES BELDOCK: Since we deployed communications
on the AT&T network, many of our customers
have doubled or tripled in size,
because we could offer them a lower-priced service
at the same time as expanding their coverage
and improving the performance of the product.
(gun shots)
This is a case where knowing that there were two shooters
helped the district attorney make
two separate *** one convictions.
Based on the spacing between the shots,
we can prove that they were fired about 16 feet apart.
Two people firing their weapons.
SGT. NICOLE ABETKOV: There's been active shooters,
and we've been able to pinpoint where those shooters are at,
where the shots are coming from.
JAMES BELDOCK: ShotSpotter data provides situational awareness.
Potentially life-saving information which can save officers lives.
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