At Collision Conference, Sitch Ai Launches Technology Solutions to Address Active Shooter Incidents

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., April 26, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sitch Ai -- the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) technology solutions provider dedicated to working with schools and universities to minimize shootings and their effects – announces today its pre-launch by exhibiting and participating in one of the world’s fastest growing technology conference, Collision 2018. Sitch Ai’s mission is to improve public safety through artificial intelligence and IoT technology. This includes minimizing school shootings through predictive risk assessment technology, and if they do happen, the ability to detect, locate and track a threat within a school so that authorities can respond immediately and effectively.

Since 2013, there have been more than 300 school shootings in the US, according to Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund. Active shooter incidents average about 12 minutes during which time a person is shot every 15 seconds. Sixty percent end before law enforcement can even arrive, exacerbating the tragedy. Improving response time and awareness during these incidents can drastically reduce casualties.

Sitch Ai takes on this tragic epidemic directly through prevention and response solutions to reduce casualties and to mitigate such events prior to their taking place. To achieve this goal, Sitch Ai technology is designed to connect people and real-time information during incidents to improve response speed, precision and efficacy; and to save as many lives as possible.“Even one school shooting is too many, and we believe in better prevention and response. These incidents create long-term impacts on school communities such as reduced trust, enrollment and test scores,” said Sitch Ai co-founder and CEO, Matty Squarzoni. “Improving public safety means improving outcomes for communities and individuals, and most importantly, saving lives."

Sitch Ai provides first-of-their-kind approaches to active shooter detection and response, including rapid and precise alerts with real-time sensors to immediately identify gunshots and their location indoors, as well as real-time locating and tracking of threats, allowing for faster apprehension and greater protection for all. The benefits of Sitch Ai’s solutions are obvious as Squarzoni says the technology promotes safer campus environments and communities, applying to nearly all spaces where public safety is a concern across municipalities and enterprise organizations.

“By seeding access to actionable offline data enabled by IoT – such as peoples’ movements during an emergency, or a threat’s behavior leading up to an incident – we are laying a foundation for improved predictive modeling,” says Squarzoni. “When paired with online data like the basic behaviors captured on our networks today, we can revolutionize our ability to create accurate predictive models through anonymous and non-invasive means.” For Sitch Ai, this includes developing the ability to identify students at-risk of negative outcomes such as dropout, self-harm, or violence for proactive and compassionate interventions that improve student outcomes.

While at Collision, Sitch Ai, one of 70 companies, will participate in Collision PITCH, the planet’s pre-eminent startup competition bringing together the world’s leading early-stage startups for a live on-stage battle. Collision PITCH is open to startups exhibiting at Collision that have received under $3 million in funding to date and have not had a discernible change in business model in the previous three years. These top firms gain the opportunity to present in front of distinguished investor panels, influential media and global partners across three days for a chance to present in front of thousands of attendees on Center Stage at Collision and be crowned winner of PITCH 2018.About Sitch AiSitch Ai is dedicated to saving lives with artificial intelligence enabled gunshot detection, indoor location tracking and automated analytics that augment geospatial and situational awareness to improve public safety. Addressing issues like active shooter incidents, the Sitch Ai team leverages a range of best practices from data science, networking, military intelligence and special operations to deliver advanced, accurate and highly reliable public safety solutions. https://www.sitchai.com/

About Collision ConferenceCollision is “America’s fastest growing tech conference” created by the team behind Web Summit. In three years, Collision has grown to almost 20,000 attendees from 119 countries. Attendees include CEOs of both the world’s fastest growing startups and the world’s largest companies, alongside leading investors and media.



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