(calm music continues) (air whooshing) - ShotHawk is very simply put a company that is looking to have a very positive impact on the world.

- ShotHawk is a company that's based around helping people and keeping people safe and that's through building devices that can monitor and survey and actively respond to threats when they arise.

(calm music) - What we're currently in the process of creating is what we call a public safety defenders.

So, for active shooter in knife threat situations, our device will be able to step in after being told there's a threat.

We had a late night conversation after the Uvalde shooting happened and we really felt like something could and needed to be done.

From a technology perspective we're like, "There's gotta be something we could do to stop this."

And one thing led to the next and before we knew it we were creating what ultimately became our company.

We had to ensure that what we were doing was going to make a positive impact on the world.

You gotta make sure that the change you're bringing about is positive and is what the community needs.

- The device is essentially a wall mountable unit, can also be mounted outdoors on any kind of sides of buildings and essentially what its main capability is, is to identify and follow threats through their motion and deploy a non-lethal solution on a user or any kind of application of this technology would interact with a panic button or some kind of triggering mechanism.

And what that essentially allows us to do is to be sure that there is some kind of threat in the environment.

- After it's been told that there's an emergency, our unit will then be able to activate and autonomously track and identify the assailant and then engage them with a non-lethal.

We're starting with pepper gel and silly string because those are the easiest for us to work with while we're developing, but really it could be a wide range of things.

It could be as simple as a light blinder, or for more advanced scenarios, it could be rubber bullets or pepper balls.

(air whooshing) - People can't believe that it can be done right.

A lot of people are like, "Hey, you know, this seems a little bit too immature.

Or the technology might not be there yet."

Our response to that has mostly been, you know, through the hard trial of development, right?

Trial and failure, and then, you know, going back to the table fixing what we've already built.

- People thought we were crazy, they thought we were trying to live in a sci-fi movie and didn't think what we were doing was actually possible.

In terms of how they'll be dispersed around a school or other public environment, we're anticipating putting these several of them throughout a school where you have, you know, one at your major entryways, and then, you know, in your major hallways throughout a building.

And then after that you begin to layer them over time.

So, you get them in the points where you feel like you might have gaps in security.

- With the spot unit, we're essentially aiming to be the first first responder where it's an active response between the time that the threat's been identified and when the police arrive on scene.

And so our field, our scope of use kind of ends when the police arrive on scene, they can deactivate the unit just so that way it doesn't trigger on the police and their weapons and their response and so that way there's no, I guess confusion in the response of the threat.

Having an AI program that can accurately track and identify threats is something that's very important to the function of our product so we're pursuing a lot of testing to make sure that it is that and it is a complete robust AI program.

- I feel like it's gonna bring what the fire sprinkler did for fires.

I ultimately think that we are just adding another piece to the puzzle for security systems where they're gonna be able to actively respond.

So, the hope is that, you know, you would never need this just like how we hope we never need our fire sprinklers.

(air whooshing) To us it means that we can help people.

I mean, quite simply that is what we wanna do.

We wanna make a difference.

I mean, you know, we're working with cutting edge technology that we could be using for many other applications like, you know, we didn't have to choose to take this towards the public safety and security space, but at the same time we felt by doing so and taking the road less traveled here that we could really make an impact.

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