“You have a social demand for smart gun technology, but not necessarily a market demand,” said Jim Schaff, VP of marketing at YardArm. “As a consumer product, it’s going to be a long road.”
YardArm also is developing new methods to send wireless data of which direction a weapon is pointing, offering data that can be viewed via smartphone and fed to dispatch. If implemented, YardArm’s technology could help prevent public outrage – and clear officers of wrongdoing – when officers use their weapons accordingly.