AI Gun
Detection
Real-time gun detection technology for public
safety, access control, and rapid response.
Real-Time Gun Detection for
Faster Incident Response
Earlier Threat
Visibility
Faster Incident
Response
Sub-Second
Detection Latency
Works with
Existing Cameras
Configurable
Response Workflows
Proven in
Operational
Environments
Real-Time Gun Detection for
Faster Incident Response
Earlier Threat
Visibility
Faster Incident
Response
Faster Incident
Response
Works with
Existing Cameras
Configurable
Response Workflows
Proven in
Operational
Environments
What is AI Gun
Detection?
AI-assisted gun detection is a Vision AI capability that analyzes live video feeds to identify visible firearms and surface alerts when a likely threat is detected. It helps security teams move beyond passive monitoring by turning video into an active layer of detection and response.
This matters because traditional surveillance still relies heavily on human operators noticing threats in real time and escalating them quickly. AI gun detection helps close that gap by continuously monitoring video for visible, brandished firearms and helping teams act sooner.
It is also different from adjacent security technologies. AI gun detection is not gunshot detection, which reacts after a shot is fired, or concealed weapon screening, which focuses on checkpoint inspection. It is built for live detection of visible firearms in operational environments.
How AI Gun
Detection
Systems Work
AI gun detection works by analyzing live video streams frame by frame to identify visible firearms in context. When the system detects a likely match, it generates an alert and routes it into a broader security workflow for review, escalation, or response.
That workflow can be configured by environment. Some organizations want immediate escalation. Others prefer detections routed first to a trained operator for adjudication before action is taken. Gun detection is not a one-size-fits-all deployment: different sites, staffing models, and risk profiles require different thresholds for sensitivity, alerting, and response.
ROC GUN DETECTION
Proven Technology When
Speed and Precision Matter
Built for live security environments, ROC combines visible firearm detection, sub-second analysis, rapid alerting, and configurable response workflows to help teams detect threats earlier and respond faster using existing camera infrastructure.
01
Detect Visible Firearms
in Live Video
ROC Gun Detection analyzes live video frame by frame to identify visible firearms, with a primary focus on brandished guns. It detects handguns and long guns with sub-second detection latency.
02
Recognize Firearms Across
Varied Presentations
ROC Gun Detection is built to detect firearms across a range of challenging poses and carry positions, including firearms that are brandished, depressed, or holstered when visible to the camera.
03
Surface Detections and
Deliver Rapid Alerts
When a likely firearm is detected, ROC Gun Detection generates alerts in near real time so detections can be surfaced quickly and routed intelligently across live security operations.
04
Perform Reliably in
Operational Conditions
As with all of ROC’s core algorithms, ROC Gun Detection is optimized for real-world operational conditions rather than idealized lab scenarios: crowded environments, partial occlusion, and complex, uncontrolled settings where firearms may not appear in a perfectly clean frame.
05
Support Faster Assessment
and Response
By focusing on visible firearms in live environments, ROC Gun Detection gives teams the specificity needed to assess threats faster and determine the appropriate response, supporting workflows from automated escalation to human review and adjudication.
06
Ensure Responsible
Deployment
ROC technology is developed under a strict Code of Ethics, helping ensure these Vision AI capabilities are deployed responsibly in ways that support public safety while respecting privacy, human oversight, and operational accountability.
Gun Detection for Live
Security Environments
Across public safety, access control, and TacOps scenarios, the value of AI gun detection systems is clear: earlier visibility, faster coordination, and a more proactive response posture.
Public Safety
For public safety agencies, ROC Gun Detection can help surface visible threats earlier and get critical information to the right personnel faster. In city surveillance, transit environments, and Real Time Crime Centers, earlier visibility can support faster coordination, earlier escalation, and more informed decision-making as events unfold.
Access Control
In physical security contexts, gun detection platforms can help identify a visible firearm before a threat reaches a more vulnerable point in the workflow. This gives security teams more time to assess the situation, escalate appropriately, and protect facilities across entire camera networks, from perimeter approaches to entry points.
Tactical Response
For tactical teams, ROC Gun Detection can feed live alerts into active field operations quickly enough to support response in motion. In mobile, vehicle-based, covert, or rapidly changing environments, earlier visibility can help teams act with greater situational clarity and operational tempo.
Own the
Vertical
Space
Own the
Vertical
Space
Beyond fixed-camera setups, ROC Gun Detection can extend into mobile, vehicular, and covert tactical operations. Using drone-based imagery and multimodal video analytics configured for elevated, long-range detection, ROC can help detect rooftop snipers, track threats at range, and close the vertical blind spot.
CONFIGURABLE WORKFLOWS
Flexible Workflows for
Live Threat Resolution
Gun detection is not a one-size-fits-all deployment. Different environments require different thresholds for sensitivity, alerting, review, and escalation. ROC Gun Detection is built to support configurable response workflows, giving organizations more control over how detections are surfaced and how teams respond.
Fine-Tune Detection to the Environment
When ROC detects a visible firearm, the system performs sub-second analysis to deliver alerts in near real time through email, SMS, MQTT, or REST API integrations. This gives organizations flexibility in how detections are surfaced, shared, and escalated across existing security workflows and third-party systems.
Route Alerts the
Right Way
Gun detections can be paired with associated individuals and intelligent tracking across multiple camera feeds to help operators maintain visibility as a threat moves through an environment. Rather than forcing teams to work from a single moment of detection, ROC Watch helps turn that alert into a more usable operational view.
Keep Human
Judgment in
the Loop
Fully designed and developed in the USA by elite national experts, scientists, and engineers.
POST-EVENT ANALYTICS
From Live Alerts to Post-
Event Video Analytics
Detect the Event
ROC Gun Detection is built first for live response, but the value does not stop once the alert is issued. Detections can also strengthen post-event review and investigative workflows by helping teams identify relevant footage faster, narrow the search window, and reconstruct incidents with greater clarity.
Review the Footage
After an event, gun detection data can help investigators pinpoint key moments in video, review timelines more efficiently, and reduce the time required to locate relevant footage for analysis. Organizations move from raw footage to usable evidence faster.
Accelerate the
Investigation
The same capability that supports faster live response can also support video forensics, pattern-of-life analysis, and investigative reconstruction, extending the value of gun detection beyond the initial alert and accelerating the path to case resolution.
Your Infrastructure. Your Rules.
ROC Gun Detection is designed to integrate with existing IP camera infrastructure, making it easier to operationalize gun detection without overhauling the broader security environment. The result is a faster path to deployment, lower infrastructure burden, and stronger long-term ROI from the systems organizations already own.
Deploy Gun Detection Though ROC Watch
ROC Gun Detection is available as a core analytic within ROC Watch, ROC’s video analytics platform for live security operations. Within ROC Watch, gun detection becomes more than a point alert. It becomes part of a broader operational picture that helps teams identify brandished firearms, maintain situational awareness, and respond faster as events unfold.
Real-Time Alerting
When ROC detects a visible firearm, the system performs sub-second analysis to deliver alerts in near real time through email, SMS, MQTT, or REST API integrations. This gives organizations flexibility in how detections are surfaced, shared, and escalated across existing security workflows and third-party systems. As an end-to-end gun identifier AI, ROC pairs detection with intelligent alert routing.
Gun Tracking & Situational Awareness
Gun detections can be paired with associated individuals and intelligent tracking across multiple camera feeds to help operators maintain visibility as a threat moves through an environment. Rather than forcing teams to work from a single moment of detection, ROC Watch helps turn that alert into a more usable operational view.
Unified Multimodal Intelligence
ROC Watch brings gun detection into the same pane of glass as other ROC analytics, including face recognition, watchlisting, vehicle recognition, and ALPR. The result is more intelligent, layered awareness for security and tactical response teams working from live video.
Deploy Gun Detection Though ROC SDK
ROC Gun Detection is also available through ROC SDK, ROC’s unified Vision AI toolkit for developers, partners, and mission-specific deployments. For organizations that need the firearm detection algorithm inside their own product, workflow, or operational environment, ROC SDK provides a direct path to integration without requiring the full ROC Watch platform.
Made for Developers
ROC SDK is designed to help teams integrate AI models into existing workflows with speed and precision. With native deployment options, sample code, documentation, CLI support, and broad language and platform compatibility, it gives developers a more practical way to operationalize gun detection inside their own systems.
Built for Mission-Specific Environments
ROC SDK is suited for embedded and specialized deployments where firearm detection must integrate within complex security workflows. It supports cloud, on-prem, hybrid, and edge environments, with real-time video processing optimized for mobile and server infrastructure. Built for high-security, air-gapped environments and tactical operations, ROC SDK provides edge-ready Android deployments and ATAK/CIVTAK-adjacent support, ensuring reliable performance without constant internet connectivity.
The Foundation Behind ROC Platforms
ROC SDK is not a side offering. It is the core algorithmic engine that also powers ROC’s next-gen biometric identity, video analytics, and ABIS platforms. This gives partners a more credible path to deployment: the same SDK used to embed ROC Gun Detection can also serve as the backbone for larger operational systems built on ROC’s unified Vision AI capabilities.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Does ROC Gun Detection work with
my existing security cameras?
Yes. ROC is hardware-agnostic and designed to integrate with almost any existing IP camera infrastructure via standard RTSP streams. This allows organizations to add a proactive threat detection layer without the cost of a rip-and-replace hardware overhaul.
Does ROC Gun Detection work with my existing security cameras?
Yes. ROC is hardware-agnostic and designed to integrate with almost any existing IP camera infrastructure via standard RTSP streams. This allows organizations to add a proactive threat detection layer without the cost of a rip-and-replace hardware overhaul.
How does this differ from gunshot detection systems?
Gunshot detection is reactive—it alerts you after a weapon has been fired based on acoustic sensors. ROC Gun Detection is proactive—it uses Vision AI to identify visible, brandished firearms before they are used, giving security teams the critical seconds needed to prevent an escalation.
Does it work in low-light, crowded, or outdoor environments?
Yes. Unlike "lab-only" algorithms, ROC is engineered for uncontrolled environments. Our neural networks are trained to maintain high accuracy in low lighting, adverse weather, and high-throughput areas where people or objects may partially occlude the camera’s view.
Is a human needed to review every alert?
ROC is built for configurable response workflows. You can choose to have alerts routed directly to facility personnel for immediate action or sent first to a security operations center (SOC) for human adjudication. This flexibility ensures the system fits your specific staffing and risk protocols.
Can ROC detect threats from drones or at a long distance?
Yes. ROC supports tactical operations (TACOPS) and drone aerial intelligence with select modalities trained on aerial imagery, top-down surveillance-style imagery, and downward-looking angles. This supports the detection of rooftop threats or brandished weapons from drone-based video, helping close the vertical blind spot in modern security.
Where is the data processed and is it secure?
ROC offers total deployment flexibility: On-Prem, Cloud, or Edge. As a 100% American-made company, we ensure all code is sovereign and secure. For tactical teams, ROC can even be deployed in fully "disconnected" or offline environments on mobile devices via ATAK or ruggedized vehicle kits.
What is ROC SDK?
ROC provides a unified, cross-platform SDK with a standardized API interface that eliminates the need for modality-specific re-architecting. Maintain feature parity across 7 languages—C++, Java, Python, C#, Go, Node.js, and Rust—with native support for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.
Integration Options:
- REST API: Engineered for modern web services and microservice-heavy architectures.
- Native SDK: Optimized for C++-level performance in high-throughput embedded and edge applications.
- CLI: Ready-made for automated batch workflows and shell-based processing.
- Web API: Delivers robust server-side deployment with granular hardware acceleration control.
ROC is built on open standards to ensure full interoperability and eliminate vendor lock-in. Most enterprise-grade integrations move from evaluation to production within days. Start building immediately with a free 30-day evaluation license, which includes complete documentation and direct access to our senior engineering team.
How does ROC support active shooter response?
ROC Gun Detection AI is purpose-built for active shooter scenarios. By identifying brandished firearms in real time, ROC gives security teams, school resource officers, and law enforcement earlier visibility to trigger lockdowns, dispatch responders, and coordinate tactical intervention before shots are fired.