Security lines at the Moody Center shrinking due to AI tool [Video]

AUSTIN, Texas — On Sunday night, the 2024 CMT Awards will attract thousands of country music fans to Austin.

With large crowds generally comes long security lines, but thanks to this one unique security tool that involves AI, those long lines are dwindling at large events like the CMTs.

Instead of typical metal detectors that can’t distinguish exactly what object is passing through, SmartGateway lanes use AI technology and purpose-built sensors to determine when a weapon passes through. That means people don’t have to empty their pockets of their phone, wallet and any other metal.

The SmartGateway lanes have been programmed to detect certain items and will alert a physical security guard if they detect a weapon match. 

“AI software is correlating that to say, well there’s a 98% possibility this is a gun,” said Paul Evans, the CEO of Xtract One Technologies. “It will alert, and that will instruct security staff …