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Axon Sprints for Justice

Axon, the global leader in connected public safety technologies, is bringing its suite of advanced technology solutions to commercial and private security markets. These industries are now able to benefit from the same transparency and efficiency capabilities that the Axon Network is driving in public safety. Solutions include body-worn cameras for complete transparency and certainty, and Axon’s cloud platform to drive efficiency and quality through smarter digital asset management. The real-time operations platform makes it easy to capture, store, manage and share data.

With a proven history protecting people and assets across the globe, you can count on Axon technologies to provide certainty and clarity for your organization. Axon has deep experience creating some of the most advanced connected devices in the world, and managing huge amounts of data being produced by those devices. Our history managing connected devices and enormous amounts of data can help you stay more connected with and aware of worker, asset and facility status. The Axon data management platform enables you to aggregate video, image, audio and document data to streamline processes and view and manage all your important information in a single place.

Designed to be adaptable from close consultation with our strategic partners, Axon’s leading technology suite is helping commercial and security companies streamline and improve operations and customer interactions. The advantages offered include:


Quality- Axon cameras drive quality and compliance through insight and transparency into employee behavior, operations, site or facility status and incidents. The Axon data management platform makes it easy to share best practices and quality information across multiple organizations and sites. 

Insight- Whether it’s tracking loss prevention, reviewing safety incidents, or providing proof to customers and partners, video documentation with an iron-clad audit trail dispels any uncertainty. Providing indisputable insight is also key to meeting regulatory and compliance standards. 

Security- Protect people, facilities and assets with body cameras and the leading non-lethal de-escalation tool, the TASER 7 device. Studies have shown that body-worn cameras have a positive effect in de-escalating situations, reducing use of force and enhancing trust and transparency.

Efficiency- Axon’s data management platform streamlines management and sharing of data. The real-time operations platform provides highly secure and compliant data management capabilities ensuring even the most sensitive or highly regulated industries can confidently store and manage data. 

Here’s what a few of our customers have to say about how the Axon Network is benefiting them:

Transport for Wales’ Continuous Improvement Manager Chris Watkins said: “While the railway is already a very safe environment to travel in, we want to give our customers and colleagues that added piece of mind that their safety comes first. Axon cameras will add transparency to ensure any incident claims can be quickly and accurately verified.”

Josh Wise, the CEO of GrassRoots, is using Axon video technology to provide proof of work to customers. “In response to a customer complaint, we sent the Axon video to provide proof of proper completion. The customer was extremely happy and wrote a 5-star review about how awesome we were as a company. That’s just a whole new thing that comes with the cameras, being able to provide a great experience for the customer so they go and refer new customers to us.”

“Axon’s innovative technology makes it easier for organizations to be safer and more efficient,” says John Wolter, Chief of Police at Texas Medical Center. “The ability to transparently and quickly provide feedback has improved communication - not only with officers but with the wider community. Axon’s one-stop-shop makes sense for our organization, and we have benefited from implementing this technology.”

Axon is working with security and commercial customers to implement Axon technologies to improve data management and drive more value for their customers. If interested in implementing Axon products at your security company, or in participating in a commercial trial please contact: enterprisesolutions@axon.com. 


ARTICLE: Axon Expands into Comercial and Private Security

Axon Expands into Commercial and Private Security Sectors

As you may have heard, Axon just announced a new partnership with Skydio, the leading US-based UAS/drone manufacturer and a powerhouse in autonomous flight technology. This partnership will make Skydio’s drones and autonomy software solutions immediately available through Axon, and by next year Skydio’s offerings will be integrated with Axon’s suite of products to improve evidence management, real-time situational awareness and scene reconstruction for agencies. To say I’m excited about this announcement would be an understatement!

The Axon Air team has seen the value that drones provide in public safety, and is therefore committed to lowering the barriers of entry for agencies to adopt drone technology. Currently, we provide hardware, software and training to help agencies overcome regulatory hurdles and simplify livestreaming, evidence and program management. With the addition of Skydio, drone adoption will be even easier thanks to AI-assisted piloting and easy-to-use 3D scene reconstruction.

Today, a growing number of public safety agencies are using drones for aerial situational awareness – similar to how the biggest agencies use helicopters, but at a much lower cost that's accessible to more agencies and for more scenarios. At Axon, we believe that this is just the beginning, and that autonomous and AI-assisted autonomous flight have the potential to dramatically improve community and officer safety in the years ahead.

Skydio's autonomy engine already allows for better obstacle avoidance and autonomous flight, so Skydio drones can maneuver in harder-to-pilot situations where there would be greater risk of crashing or missing critical vantage points. In the future, Skydio's technology may enable beyond visual line-of-slight (BVLOS) flight to power a true “drone as first responder” system. This increased situational awareness will allow for faster response times from agencies and safer outcomes for all.

It’s a lofty goal, but we have a roadmap for making it happen:

First, we’ll integrate Skydio drones with Axon Evidence for seamless upload and evidence management. What does this mean for you? Being able to easily manage, share and build cases leveraging drone files alongside your existing Axon-generated evidence, including body-worn video.

Next, we’ll integrate Skydio drones with Axon Respond for Devices to give greater situational awareness to first responders before they arrive on-scene. Command staff will be able to view streams from both Skydio drones and Axon cameras to get real-time intelligence as a scene unfolds, which will help keep officers safer.

Finally, we’ll build a pathway to manage the 3D models generated by Skydio 3D Scan in Axon Evidence and Axon Records to help with scene reconstruction. This will transform quality of evidence by introducing reliable 3D models into proceedings.

Longer term, these goals come together to position drones as a comprehensive solution for public safety, bringing the vision of drones as a first responder to life.

In the coming months, our teams will dive deep into collaborating on this partnership, and we will share exciting updates as they come to fruition. In the meantime, you can sign up to receive more info about Axon’s partnership with Skydio at axon.com/skydio. Fritz Reber, Head of Public Safety Integration at Skydio, also wrote a blog on the partnership, which you can read here.

About the Author:
Aydin Ghajar is the General Manager of Axon Air – Axon's UAS/drone team that's providing public safety agencies with the tools they need to leverage drones as part of their daily operations. Prior to Axon, he held leadership roles at Uber, Facebook, and Salesforce.com after several technology startups in his early career. Aydin is passionate about building UAS technologies to make it easier for public safety agencies to benefit from the use of drones.



ARTICLE: Skydio Partnership

Axon and Skydio Partner to Bring US-Manufactured, AI-Powered Autonomous Drones to Public Safety

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Oct. 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Axon (Nasdaq: AAXN), the global leader in connected public safety technologies, today announced that it will report 2019 third quarter financial results after the market closes on Thursday, November 7, 2019. Axon executives Rick Smith, CEO and founder; Jawad Ahsan, CFO; Luke Larson, President; will host a conference call and webcast to discuss the company's financial results at 5 p.m. ET that same day.

The live audio webcast to discuss financial results, followed by Q&A, will be available on Axon's investor relations website at https://investor.axon.com. An archived replay will be available after the call ends.

Axon is a network of devices, apps and people that helps public safety personnel become smarter and safer. With a mission of protecting life, our technologies give customers the confidence, focus and time they need to keep their communities safe. Our products impact every aspect of a public safety officer's day-to-day experience.

We work hard for those who put themselves in harm's way for all of us. To date, there are more than 397,800 software seats booked on the Axon network around the world and more than 223,000 lives and countless dollars have been saved with the Axon network of devices, apps and people. Learn more at www.axon.com or by calling (800) 978-2737.

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Axon (Nasdaq: AAXN), the global leader in connected public safety technologies, today announced that it will report 2019 third quarter financial results after the market closes on Thursday, November 7, 2019.

Axon to Release Third Quarter 2019 Earnings on November 7, 2019

ARTICLE: Axon to Release Third Quarter 2019 Earnings on November 7, 2019

Axon and its Ethics Board will work with public safety thought leaders and diverse community leaders to develop a model framework for law enforcement agencies to responsibly and ethically deploy this technology consistent with the Ethics Board's guidance, which was set forth in their report published today.

"ALPR is an important tool for keeping communities safe as it can help apprehend criminals, find missing children, and recover stolen vehicles," says Axon CEO and founder, Rick Smith. "We do, however, recognize that there are legitimate concerns about privacy protections, constitutionality of search and data security issues that need to be addressed. We embrace that we have an ethical obligation to develop this technology thoughtfully and bring new privacy safeguards to the industry. While building ALPR, we'll be addressing items such as data retention and data ownership, creating an ethical framework to help prevent misuse of the technology."

Axon is leveraging the power of AI to significantly reduce the cost of ALPR systems, making it affordable for every patrol. Axon is simultaneously addressing industry short-comings to improve data security, transparency and privacy as declining costs enable more widespread use of the technology. Axon plans to work collaboratively with communities to better understand and implement controls such as maximum retention periods and transparency tools.

One recommendation in the Ethics Board's report calls for agency ownership and control over the captured license plate data, declaring that data should not be sold for commercial purposes. For years, Axon has protected digital evidence by maintaining a secure cloud-based system that allows agencies to control data, ensuring use only for public safety purposes. Consistent with the Ethics Board's recommendations, Axon will maintain that same high level of security and privacy standards with ALPR data.

"We have not, and will not ever sell public safety data. We believe the data is owned by public safety agencies and the communities they serve, and should not be resold to private entities whose interests may not be aligned with the public good," concluded Smith.

"The unregulated use of ALPRs has exposed millions of people subject to surveillance by law enforcement, and the danger to our basic civil rights is only increasing as the technology is becoming more common," says Ethics Board member Barry Friedman, founder of the Policing Project at the New York University School of Law and the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law at New York University. "If government is going to continue to abdicate its responsibility to regulate this technology appropriately, and we hope it doesn't, it is incumbent on companies like Axon to ensure that ALPRs serve the communities who are subject to ALPR usage. This includes guardrails to ensure their use does not compromise civil liberties or worsen existing racial and socioeconomic disparities in the criminal justice system."

Axon Fleet 3 will use AI for ALPR to help reduce officer distraction. For example, when searching for stolen vehicles or criminals today, patrol officers manually look up vehicle license plates by typing into their computers. ALPR helps eliminate the need for typing while driving. Today, most agencies deploy ALPR via specialized vehicle units with plate recognition systems that cost tens of thousands of dollars in only a portion of the vehicle fleet. Axon Fleet 3 will integrate ALPR capability in the dashboard camera of every patrol vehicle, allowing agencies to deploy more coverage at a lower cost. Axon Fleet 3 will also enable Axon Aware real-time telemetry and video streaming capabilities and will be upgradeable to 5G to leverage low-latency connectivity for enhanced real-time services and direct video offload to the cloud.

Axon will be previewing Axon Fleet 3 at the 126th annual International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) conference, this week in Chicago at Axon's booth number 2211. There, Axon will be demonstrating enhanced 5G real-time services.

Axon is a global network of devices, apps, training and people that helps public safety personnel become smarter and safer. With a mission of protecting life, our technologies give customers the confidence, focus and time they need to protect their communities. Our products impact every aspect of a public safety officer's day-to-day experience.

We work hard for those who put themselves in harm's way for all of us. To date, there are more than 397,800 software seats booked on the Axon network around the world and more than 223,000 lives have been saved with the Axon network of devices, apps, training and people. Learn more at www.axon.com or by calling (800) 978-2737.

Facebook is a trademark of Facebook, Inc. and Twitter is a trademark of Twitter, Inc.

Axon, Axon Fleet, Axon Records, Axon Aware, Axon Detect and the Delta Logo are trademarks of Axon Enterprise, Inc., some of which are registered in the US and other countries. For more information, visit www.axon.com/legal. All rights reserved.

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