How Real-Time AI Gun Detection Improved School Security
Angel Protection needed to protect hundreds of school cameras with firearm detection that actually worked — without crippling infrastructure costs or licensing constraints. We built it from the ground up.
Protecting schools required detection technology that simply didn't exist
Angel Protection operates AI-powered security systems across school districts. Their mission demands accuracy — a false negative isn't a missed sale, it's a missed threat. Existing solutions fell short on every front.
Built from scratch — licence-free, edge-optimised, massively scalable
Rather than patching an off-the-shelf system, Gradient Insight designed a bespoke distributed architecture: lightweight motion detection at the edge triggers centralised GPU inference — making it possible to monitor 100+ 4K streams simultaneously at near-real-time latency.
Custom, fully licence-free YOLO-based detection model trained from scratch on curated domain data
Distributed edge architecture: motion detection runs on-device; GPU inference centralised for scale
Domain-specific synthetic augmentation — lighting, angle, and occlusion variations baked into training
TensorRT-optimised inference pipeline handling hundreds of 4K streams per GPU node
Commercial Python package (angelcv) for camera-agnostic RTSP discovery and provisioning
~1-second end-to-end detection latency across 100+ simultaneous feeds
Outcomes that matter — at a fraction of the cost
The deployed system didn't just meet the original requirements — it redefined what Angel Protection's platform could offer. Accuracy, scale, and cost targets were all exceeded.
"Gradient Insight's solution transformed our approach. We now process 10x more feeds at 1/10th the cost while detecting threats traditional systems miss."
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Your domain, your data — built to your exact requirements
We don't adapt generic models. We architect bespoke AI systems that meet your performance, licensing, and infrastructure constraints — from scratch.