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ir Force 1st Lt. Julian Martinez, an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) electrical engineer, was a member of the
winning seven-member team in the 2015 AFRL Commanders Challenge, which asked groups of junior personnel to design systems to detect and thwart internal base threats. In June, four teams tested their systems in a mock active-shoot- er scenario. Some of the winning team’s systems* already are being put to use and prepared for release on the market. Tell us about your approach. It’s a little bit of everything in one. We cre- ated a mobile app to report [suspi- cious people] immediately to people within their surrounding area. We came up with a gunshot detector using acoustic sensing and some signal processing. We tied in those sensors [on] a building map to a Web page, where we could pull up the indoor map and we could see where those shots were fired. We also came up with an indoor tracking
system using ultra-wideband for the first responders. It’s kind of like GPS. Right now, you’ll sometimes be in a building where you don’t have a network or GPS signal just be- cause of the way buildings are set up. Once a first responder came in … we could see them.
Mechanical devices that could quickly be
removed and inserted into doorframes fur- ther protect the door from being knocked down by an active shooter trying to get into the room. How did the judges react to your sub- mission? A SWAT team who has been working maybe 20 years said they had never seen anything like this indoor tracking solution … something that would update itself so fast and could within a meter tell you where your person was. What did you enjoy most working on this chal- lenge? I enjoyed most working on the mobile app. I’m the electrical engineer, but
I’m not really a fan of software de- sign. Going through the whole pro- cess of learning and iterative design to create an application … was a challenge, but it was a ton of fun. The most interesting thing for me was how different teams came to different solutions given the same problem.
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*online. Read more about the winning Commanders Challenge system at
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