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Canal Winchester wins OmniAlert grant for AI weapon detection pilot at high school
Summary
District was one of 50 national recipients of a three-year OmniAlert grant to pilot AI gun-detection software at Canal Winchester High School; deployment will use 30 fixed cameras integrated with the district’s Percada camera system and is expected within weeks.
Canal Winchester Local School District leaders said Aug. 11 that the district won a three-year pilot grant from OmniAlert to test AI weapon-detection software at Canal Winchester High School.
A district staff member described OmniAlert as “an AI gun detection software” and said the district was one of 50 recipients nationally. The pilot covers 30 camera deployments at the high school and will run three years; staff said shipping had begun and that a deployment and integration period with the district’s Percada…
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