In today's connected world, factories are smart, cars are smart, buildings are smart, and homes are smart. School campuses should be smart too. The number of gun-violence incidents in the United States is much too high, and while politicians and special interest groups argue about how exactly to curb this violence, technology could help keep campuses safer. The latest IoT (Internet of Things) technologies could streamline campus and school operations to help them run as efficiently as possible. According to MarketsandMarkets, the global IoT in education market is expected to grow from $4.8 billion in 2018 to $11.3 billion by 2023.

Sensor fusion is the use of sensory data from multiple sources, combined into one comprehensive result for more accurate, complete, and dependable, business intelligence and security applications. "IoT devices, security cameras and other data capture sensors are practically everywhere," said Nadir Ali, CEO of Inpixon. "The challenge is to filter the information captured by those devices, so it can be processed and analyzed in a meaningful way. Inpixon has extensive experience in radio frequency data fusion, which we believe we can leverage due to the similarities between radio waves and the light waves captured by CCTV cameras. "Location is the lynchpin," continued Mr. Ali. "To know what's going on in your building -- for security purposes, for sales or customer service purposes, or for applications like location-based marketing or augmented reality -- you must know the location of persons and electronic devices in your space.