Gunshot Detection

  • Vanderbilt University

    Researchers receive NSF grant to develop novel gunshot detection technology

    Vanderbilt researchers have received a U.S. National Science Foundation CIVIC Innovation Challenge grant to develop innovative gunshot detection technology using machine learning that could become a model for communities nationwide. Will Hedgecock, principal investigator at Vanderbilt’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems, is leading the development. Co-PIs of… Read More

    Sep. 15, 2025

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt-developed gunshot detection technology leads to arrest in Las Vegas shooting

    Sixteen Databuoy gunshot detection sensors are installed along a pedestrian mall in Las Vegas. Photo courtesy of Databuoy. Janos Sallai, PhD’08, is company’s chief technology officer Gunshot detection technology developed by Vanderbilt engineers and commercialized by a longtime research partner recently helped lead to an arrest in a fatal shooting… Read More

    Jan. 10, 2022