In 2019, over 400 mass shootings were reported in the U.S.

The average response time in these situations was between 12 and 15 minutes, according to ZeroEyes, a video analytics company based at the Pennovation Center in Grays Ferry.

That’s long enough to cause a lot of destruction. ZeroEyes aims to curb that: The company uses artificial intelligence to predict potential threats and prevent mass shooter situations from escalating. The technology, which can be integrated with analog and digital security cameras already installed in public areas, detects weapons in real time.

“The cofounders were just sick of seeing headlines where kids got killed or people in an office building got killed,” said Kieran Carroll, ZeroEyes’ VP of enterprise strategy and government affairs. “When we were in the military, we would have loved to have a tool like this.”

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