Numerex And Alcohol Monitoring Systems Announce Expansion Of Breakthrough Wireless Alcohol Monitoring Solutions

Numerex And Alcohol Monitoring Systems Announce Expansion Of Breakthrough Wireless Alcohol Monitoring Solutions

Numerex M2M services enable continuous alcohol monitoring via the wireless SCRAMx ankle bracelet and a new state-of-the-art wireless remote breath device.

Numerex Corp, a leading provider of on demand and interactive machine-to-machine (M2M) enterprise solutions, announced today from MobileCon™, its collaboration with Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc. (AMS) to develop groundbreaking continuous alcohol monitoring products for criminal justice use.

AMS’ industry-leading SCRAMx wireless ankle bracelet provides courts and law enforcement with an alternative to incarceration, because of the product’s proven ability to hold offenders accountable to 24/7 alcohol abstinence. The wireless SCRAMx version will remotely download the data over the cellular network, allowing the measurement of alcohol use and tamper attempts without the need for a telephone line, cell phone or internet connectivity.

Numerex provided advisory and design services to create a customized M2M turnkey wireless solution for the SCRAMx system. The system leverages Numerex network services which provide a full range of wireless network options for M2M network connectivity including 2G, 3G, and 4G GSM and CDMA services in addition to Satellite service.

SCRAMx offers the criminal-justice arena:

  • Around-the-clock abstinence monitoring
  • Unprecedented accountability (99.3% average daily offender compliance)
  • Increased community safety
  • An effective offender-funded program option (80% of monitored offenders pay all or a significant portion of the daily monitoring fee)
  • Dramatically lower incarceration costs. The cost of monitoring an offender using the SCRAMx system averages 10 dollars a day. In comparison, the average daily cost to incarcerate an offender in a county jail is over 71 dollars (The Center for Economic and Policy Research, 2010).

In addition to the SCRAMx system, AMS is developing an innovative remote breath alcohol device designed to further expand “sobriety enforcement” for lower-risk alcohol offenders. The product will feature a combination of facial-recognition, cellular, location, and breathalyzer technology so that an offender can be tested via the device from any location with results sent wirelessly to supervisory agents. Beside providing design and network services, Numerex will lead certification testing of the device, which is expected to hit the market in early 2013.

Lou Sugo, vice president of marketing, AMS, says:

“In concert with Numerex’s M2M expertise and broad capabilities, AMS is committed to providing criminal justice professionals with the most complete set of technically advanced alcohol-monitoring tools.”

We will continue to work closely with Numerex as more technological advances materialize within the wireless technology space,” Sugo added.

We are very proud of our alliance with AMS and the solutions that have resulted. Their products are examples of how cutting-edge network technology and M2M services can be used to affect social change. Together, we will continue to create and offer the criminal justice community leading-edge monitoring tools that drive offender accountability and deliver results,” said Michael Marett, chief revenue officer of Numerex.

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