ZeroEyes announced a partnership with Curtis Stout, a manufacturer’s representative and value-added provider of electrical turn-key solutions.

The duo has secured its first joint customer, Fort Smith School District in Arkansas, which will deploy ZeroEyes’ AI gun detection solution across its 26 campuses. Curtis Stout is a family business and global provider of lighting, energy, audio/visual, utility and electrical design, sales and distribution. The company currently boasts 9 different divisions, and recently expanded into campus safety, serving as an intermediary for school districts by connecting school decision-makers with security software providers like ZeroEyes.

“With nearly eight decades of construction expertise, we are trusted by schools to leverage and provide only best-in-breed solutions,” said Ron Smith, president and CEO, Curtis Stout. “It was a natural evolution for us to expand into security and safety infrastructure. We are proud to begin our campus safety division with ZeroEyes as the anchor product and anticipate this to be our fastest-growing division yet.”

ZeroEyes’ AI gun detection platform will be installed across Fort Smith’s campuses to help protect over 16,000 students and staff members.

“We were interested in adding another layer of security to our comprehensive safety plan and carefully evaluated every solution out there,” said Martin Mahan, deputy superintendent of Fort Smith Public Schools. “ZeroEyes came out on top for several reasons. Its ability to overlay our existing security cameras allows our students to have a normal school experience. Not to mention, ZeroEyes has a full-time operations center with human verification and comes at a lower cost than similar solutions.”