The GeckoNED concept is amazing-
Quote:The new mobile robot concept is for better, lower cost public safety.All of those affiliated with the Company share the abject horror that most Americans are now still trying to process regarding the recent, indoor (and outdoor) mass shooting and murdering of tens of innocent victims.
To better manage those 21st century mass shootings, the Company is offering to prototype and deploy the GeckoNED(tm), a new type of mobile security robot that is a Non-violent Enforcement Device with a high level of independent mobile autonomy, sensor rich for enhanced situational awareness, and ease of teleoperation by designated public safety personnel.
The following was written by Spencer shortly after the Sandy Hook mayhem, but not updated since the Pulse nightclub carnage.
Safety for our children is a moral imperative for all enlightened civilizations. The present proliferation of lethal weaponry in the form of readily obtainable semi- and full automatic pistols and rifles has brought increased child safety to nearly blinding visibility that requires new thinking and solutions for this long overdue, poorly addressed need in our culture.
Mobile robots could be the most proximate and final deterrent to those that would harm our children in public schools and other venues. GeckoSystems has named the mobile robot concept that would provide yet another barrier between our children and those immoral individuals intent on doing them significant harm the GeckoNEDä. "NED" stands for Non-violent (or non-lethal) Enforcement Device.
Fundamentally, the GeckoNED (or "NED" is a new type of mobile sentry robot that would deter, detect, and contain those that would violently harm our children in their schools. The NED would be a new type of school mascot that could be customized by the children, teachers and staff to be a daily part of their school time lives. The NED would be able to automatically patrol all wheelchair accessible areas in any school without human oversight or intervention using GeckoSystems' proven SafePathä mobile robot AI navigation software.
What does? Deters, Detects, and Contains to provide better Protection-
Marquee deterrent video and audio surveillance systems
Quick detection using sensor fusion
Deployable multiple non-lethal containment systems
Ready mobile protection systems that are fully tele-operable remotely
The NED would be a marquee deterrent due to its robust audio and video surveillance systems employing WiFi LAN data communications to connect to the school's Internet access. The primary, high-resolution pan/tilt zoom video camera and professional quality microphones would be selected such that their features and benefits are appropriate for the expanses to be "sight and sound" monitored in the school.
Further enhancing the marquee deterrence, the NED would be available for direct human tele-operation almost instantly when direct human control was appropriate and timely due to a clear and present danger to the children having been identified with a high level of confidence by the NED's AI enhanced sensor systems. In addition, cell phone and police band communication capability could be included using the voice synthesis ability of GeckoChatä.
The NED would:
Enable prompt intruder detection using multiple, different sensor systems (sight, sound and smell) AI fused to produce a one plus one equals three synergy. This metaphor describes the common result for GeckoSystems' sensor fusion competencies.
The NED's AI's would sensor fuse:
v Augmented Vision
Ø These would include machine vision, including that visible to the human eye, and that invisible, such as infra-red (IR) due to body heat, heat from fired weapons, etc. and AI software
v Extended Hearing
Ø Frequency response range widened beyond human hearing, into the ultrasonic using multiple microphones (omni directional and directional) and AI software
v Enhanced Smell
Ø Odor detection systems for appropriate gas detection, whether odorless to human sense of smell or not with intelligent inhalation system and AI software
Singly, and in concert, the preceding systems would detect unwanted intruders by:
v Video surveillance enhanced by AI object recognition machine vision
Ø In both visible and invisible IR light spectrums
v Audio surveillance enhanced by AI expert systems
Ø Within and outside human hearing range, atypical sounds such as
§ Gun shots
§ Breaking glass
§ Doors being broken down
§ Students and/or staff stressed voices; screams
v Odor and odorless gas surveillance
Ø Smoke, carbon monoxide, and natural gas
Ø Potentially odors from:
§ Handguns, long guns, rifles
§ Guns in lockers
§ Explosives, gun ammunition in lockers
The NED would pre-position ready mobile protection that is fully tele-operable remotely when atypical situations arise. It would immediately alert pre-designated parties for human intervention and direct human control of the NED and its various containment systems.
v The NED's exterior size would be about thirty inches in diameter and forty-eight inches tall
Ø Cannot be readily disabled by small arms fire thus affording cover for students and staff when the NED places itself between the intruder and all others.
Ø The NED's shroud could be bulletproof covering using a combination of Kevlar, ceramic armor, and/or aluminum plates sufficient for absorbing small arms fire.
v Immediate intervention after detection resulting from a top speed, in obstacle free hallways, of up to 20 mph
Ø SafePath technologies with obstacle avoidance five to six times faster than a person preclude NED hitting anything, even when under teleoperation (direct human) control.
v Bull horns, sirens, high power speaker system and/or other sound projection systems capable of hitting the threshold of pain
The NED would have readily deployed, multiple non-lethal containment systems solely under the control of a designated, responsible party such as a "watch commander" at the local police station.
The non-violent and/or non-lethal containment capabilities would consist of:
v Targeted, high volume water spray
v Sleeping gas with directed dispersement
v Irritant sprays, such as pepper spray, tear gas, etc. with directed dispersement
v Acoustical stunners, flash-bangs, "stun bombs"
v Targeted net guns, "projectile nets"
v Targeted sticky foam, an extremely tacky material carried in compressed form with a propellant
v Targeted electrical stunners (Tasers)
In addition to providing children and staff in schools a higher level of safety, the school would now have a new kind of school mascot, a NED. The covering of the NED could be painted in school colors, and designed like the school mascot, if desired. For an example, Huber U. Hunt Elementary School is a tiger. They could have a tiger design with verbal customized for a pleasing dialect for the students. The NED's battery recharging pads would be located at various desirable sentry positions throughout school. Literally the school's NED would be unique in its use and appearance in every school.
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