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RFID technology enables prisons to track inmates in real-time

Thursday, January 27, 2005

Prisoner TransmitterPrisons are becoming safer places thanks to a new RFID based tracking program. More than 10 years in the making, one such system has its roots in technology originally developed by Motorola for the U.S. Department of Defense. Now licensed by Technology Systems International, the TSI PRISM solution grants wardens ubiquitous, mandatory and real time tracking of all inmates and personnel in a prison complex.

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