[Talk-GB] Gun Location Sensors

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

And ShotSpotter's website confirms Birmingham as an installation location:
http://www.shotspotter.com/solutions/locations.html

Cheers

Andy

>-----Original Message-----
>From: talk-gb-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb-
>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Martin
>Sent: 13 December 2010 2:36 PM
>To: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Gun Location Sensors
>
>I googled and found that the brand name is Secures. I also found this
article
>with a picture.
>http://media.www.jhunewsletter.com/media/storage/paper932/news/2009/
>12/03/NewsFeatures/Gun-Detection.Sensors.Installed.Around.City-
>3845405.shtml
>
>This article says they may be disguised as vents or bird houses.
>http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/fs000201.pdf
>
>
>On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
><ajrlists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Peter Millar wrote:
>>>Sent: 12 December 2010 5:40 PM
>>>To: Jonathan Bennett
>>>Cc: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
>>>Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Gun Location Sensors
>>>
>>>I don't know if this is what Birmingham is using:
>>><http://gizmodo.com/5489449/tiny-sensor-listens-for-gunshots-identifyi
>>>ng-
>>>the-gun-and-location>
>>>
>>>If so, it doesn't look like verifying on the ground is going to be
>>>very
>> practical.
>>>
>>>The area covered by the system would be more interesting if it were
>>>obtainable.
>>
>> The news items I saw were referring to triangulation methods so
>> perhaps they have gone for some other system than these clever devices.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Andy
>>
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