New AI tool helps detect weapons in schools

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) – There's no shortage of people trying to build a better mousetrap…this time, through the use of artificial intelligence.

The Rotary Club of South Bend heard Wednesday from a co-founder of an AI company focused on school safety — someone who says he goes to bed every night worrying about all the bad things happening passes and gets up in the morning because he can do it. something about it.

A dizzying amount of metadata filled the room at the Century Center in South Bend. An AI program was constantly doing what it was designed to do: looking for someone to pull out a gun.

“There are cameras everywhere today, which is a very good thing,” said Scott Keplinger, CEO of IntelliSee. “The problem is that most images from surveillance cameras are never seen by the human eye. »

But “A-eye” never blinks, never sleeps, never gets sick…

Intellisee was originally invented for one purpose: as a way to better respond to school shootings.

“If you have cameras on it, you get an early warning,” Keplinger said. “If something bad happens, can you stop it before the shot is fired?” If the situation goes downhill, and in the chaos of the situation, you need to find this attacker very quickly before he causes further damage, because this pattern repeats itself over and over again.

“But not just schools. Places of worship, places with large gatherings of people, like the mall recently,” said Peter Farkas of the Communication Company of South Bend. “My own wife was recently at the University Park Mall a few weeks ago when there was the shooting there.”

And IntelliSee no longer focuses only on weapons and catastrophic events. Ironically, this encroaches on human resources.

It can detect employee falls, and even accident-causing spills.

“It’s an emerging industry, right? » said Keplinger. “So AI is actually going to have a bigger economic impact than the Internet.”

We're told IntelliSee is currently working with St. Joseph Jai County, helping to monitor the land there.

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