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Cameras That Can Detect Guns Through Clothing?

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Paul Shah
Jan 14, 2017
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John Honovich
Jan 14, 2017
IPVM

The article itself does a good job of highlighting that it is not clear that any camera today could do this at any significant level of distance.

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Paul Shah
Jan 14, 2017

Does a camera with that capability even exist?

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Undisclosed #1
Jan 14, 2017
IPVMU Certified

Sure, but like John says the range is (currently) limited, and I'm not sure how it would benefit the French quarter unless they were deployed at only at choke points and had someone monitoring live to interpret the images.

I tried to find a demo that appears, from what I know, a reasonable portrayal of the technology:

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Brian Karas
Jan 15, 2017
IPVM

The Digital Barriers ThruVis exists, though it has limitations (~30 ft range, size, IP52 rating) for something that would be deployed in a city security style deployment like what was described for New Orleans.

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