Posts Tagged ‘gps bracelet’

sex offender removes GPS tracking bracelet, rapes again

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This is probably the worst GPS news you’ll hear all day. A level 3 sex offender in Massachusetts who was wearing a GPS tracking ankle bracelet cut the GPS tracking device off and went off to rape again.

…29-year-old William French had been fitted with a GPS monitor for violating his probation after failing a random drug screening. He was out of prison after serving eight years for a 2001 rape…

He was probably wearing a GPS bracelet similar to what we’ve talked about here and managed to cut it off without triggering any sensors.

He is now behind bars again and facing a new rape charge.

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gps locator for alzheimer patients

Jul 14, 2008 , ,


Spanish brand Keruve has come out with a GPS device designed to keep an eye out for Alzheimer‘s patients.

The system consists of a special bracelet and a PSP like handheld device that can show the location of the person wearing the bracelet. Speaking of the bracelet; it is water resistant and it can only be taken off using a special tool.

The bracelet GPS receiver works with GSM1800 and GSM900 networks to broadcast its location to the base unit and even has an alarm that goes off when the battery level is too low – which is expected to last about 3.5 days.

Keruve also utilizes triangulation to make sure you can still find out where your elderly relative is even they’re indoors where GPS signals can’t reach.

The device is available in Europe and sells for 850 €…

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bracelet tracking system with GPS and GSM: PT-200

Jun 22, 2006 , , , ,

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A company in Taiwan manufactures these tracking devices that look like Casio digital wrist watches from the 80′s. They claim the battery can last for more than 50 hours which sounds very impressive. No word on pricing on the web-site.

PT-200 is the smallest and the most powerful Bracelet-type personal tracking and communication system in the world. Using highly sensitive GPS module and tri-band GSM module, the personal bracelet tracker can perform tracking and security for personnel and pets in all over the world. Further with very low power consumption, the PT-200 stays on duty for more than 50 hours without recharging the battery.

There are 3 approaches for the remote site to track and monitor the PT-200

* Using regular cellular phone and unmanned control center
* Using smart phone and control software with E-map on the smart phone
* Using man-serviced control center

Functions

* GPS and GSM dual positioning functions
* SOS Emergency button for help
* Incoming call to report positioning info
* Remote site continuous tracking
* Incoming call oscillation to remind users to take this call
* Two single-key emergency dial-out numbers
* Remote monitoring
* Automatic open-bracelet reporting
* Using cellular phone, smart phone, or man-serviced control center to track and monitor the PT-200
* Easy one-button operation
* Tri-band GSM module for worldwide tracking and monitoring
* Highly Sensitive GPS module
* GPS/ GSM signal LED display
* Device on, low battery, and charging LED display
* Using SIM Card phone book to set reporting numbers and parameters to make the interface easy
* Self-testing function
* Long standby time for more than 50 hours
* Car/ home charger available

Specifications

* Dimension: 60 x 65 x 23 (mm)
* Weight: 200 (g)
* GSM frequency: Tri-band 900/ 1800/ 1900MHz
* Battery: 1200mah (Rechargeable)
* Power Consumption: standby 20ma, max.250ma
* Operating time: standby for more than 50 hours , continuous talking for 4 hours

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Inmates in Nevada get a free GPS bracelet worth $375

Jun 14, 2006 , ,

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An $805,500 experiment that will have inmates at a southern Nevada prison wearing global positioning devices was approved Tuesday by a legislative panel, following some arguments against the spending.

During an Interim Finance Committee session, Senate Minority Leader Dina Titus, D-Las Vegas, and Assembly Ways and Means Chairman Morse Arberry, D-Las Vegas, questioned the GPS bracelets that young convicts will wear at the prison at Jean.

Titus said she was having a hard time seeing why the money should be used for electronically monitoring inmates inside prisons since lawmakers had been told authorities lacked funding to closely monitor sex offenders who have been released from prison.

Arberry added, “We need to monitor the ones on the street because they’re gang-banging all day long.”

Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio, R-Reno, said he too had concerns about the project, but added the 2005 Legislature approved the funding.

“I don’t know that we can second-guess it,” Raggio said, adding, “We put it into the law. We have to do it.”

Glen Whorton, director of the state prison system, said the GPS bracelets will help in managing 18-to-25-year-old convicts who tend to be more difficult to handle than older inmates.

Whorton and other prison system officials said the GPS devices were funded after legislators declined to authorize all the guards that were requested during the 2005 session. If the full request had been approved, it would have added more than $1 million to prison costs.

The devices will track inmate locations, and set off an alarm if a convict enters an off-limits area or tries to escape or remove a bracelet. If there’s a prison brawl, the devices will show what inmates were in the area where the fight occurred. If an inmate claims to have been assaulted by a guard, there will be a record of whether the inmate was at the correctional officer’s post.

The state is contracting with Elmo-Tech Inc., of Elmhurst, Ill., for the monitoring system. Each transmitter will cost $375.

The Southern Nevada Correctional Center at Jean, 25 miles south of Las Vegas, has been closed while being redesigned as a 600-bed facility for male convicts 25 or younger. The monitoring system will be ready by the time the prison reopens in mid-September.

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