Why a ConTracker turnkey system ?

Trackers are universally being used as cost saving devices.

On any given day, 5 million offenders in the U.S.A. alone are either on probation, parole or some other form of community supervision. These same offenders account for 33% of violent crimes.

In a large number of criminal justice cases, expensive incarceration is neither required nor legal or desirable.

Yet it is often essential, for any number of reasons, to either know where a person is or to restrict a person from any given area or activity. Retaining full security, while keeping a person unnecessarily incarcerated, is much more cost-effective than keeping a person in a cell.

A ConTracker or Xtracker system can track any person or object anywhere, anytime, but prices can fluctuate in cost from € 5 - 100s per month to depending on system chosen against some € 2 - 3.000 per cell month average in most developed countries.

For security, geographical, topographical, climatic, linguistic, technical, legal, operational and political reasons there is no single producer of a turnkey systems for all situations. All suppliers to the world tracker markets are reliant on a smaller or larger number of parts and system suppliers.

From configuration of security chips to the manufacture of straps or satellite receivers, the system owner is ultimately relying on both the system - and how it is managed with an up-time as close to 100 % as feasible.

That necessitates a complete turnkey solution that incl. building the system to fit local specifications, maps, roll-out and training of indigenous language speakers.

We have handled IT assignments in 169 countries and our staff and associates have 1.000's of man-years experience in assisting IT buyers to buy and manage the right turnkey system at the right cost.

As tracking of people and commodities is one of the world's fastest growing industries, we are looking for partnerships with companies that can handle their local potential for trackers also in civilian use.

Tracking systems.

Sizes vary from a wristwatch to whatever can be worn comfortably e.g. belt batteries, solar chargers etc.
Please see menu for model pictures.

1. Restricted movement within a small area, e.g. house arrest, inside a prison or hospital. 'Out of range'.
1.1 Biometrics Presence Verification System (voice, fingerprint, face, iris, hands and even DNA identification).
2. Restricted movement in given areas or near given people/events/buildings e.g. ex-spouses, schools, playgrounds etc.
3. Full GPS tracking. Does not work indoors.
4. Full GPS-GSM. Works indoors to an accuracy of a few meters.
5. Full tracking over a large area e.g. a whole country. (With/out satellite/GPS/GSM/ISM).
6. Full tracking in all or some of the 179 GSM countries.

An issue for all these systems is power supply to a movable transmitter, which can vary from 24 hours to several weeks or even months. Most convict systems rely on re-charging each 24 hours in special adapters/transmitters.

All systems operate on active or passive reporting with immediate alarms to a monitoring center if the offender break a rule or tampers with the equipment.

Few staff at the control center can monitor large caseloads 24 hours per day.

All systems use web or telephone/RF based custom monitoring, mapping and control software.
No maximum quantity limit but national (not area) systems usually need some 400 units to be viable.
Operational systems can be show in various countries.

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Tracking systems estimated cost. Based on 1.000 units operational in 1 year.

We have various solutions dependent on to what extent we may retain management or shares in the company.
It is generally recommended that the management company, system installer and operator is the same company.

As a rule of thumb, when we have shares-in-liu-of-fees in the company:

Viability study for recommended solution. At cost no fees.
Radio Frequency studies. At cost no fees.
System adaptation to local conditions incl. development, maps etc. At cost no fees.
System installation. At cost no fees.
System roll-out. At cost no fees.
System management. At cost no fees.

Capital cost varies too greatly from project to project to generalize prices.
A GSM/GPS system for an area of some Km. 400 x 400 (a mix of systems 4 and 5), handling thousands of tags,
would be less than € 250.000 subject to a reasonable deal with the local GSM operator*.

System operational cost per day are:

1. < € 3.00 per day
2. < € 3.00 per day
3. < € 4.00 per day
4. < € 6 - 20.00 per day*
5. < €8 - 30.00 per day
6. < subject to quote.

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Tracking systems models.

2. Belt, leg or wrist
Production by assorted manufactures and proto-types adjustable to local conditions.

2A. Child or home patient - anybody...

4. Monitoring map displays - can be incorporated into police GIS systems

5. Outside-area monitor, home alcohol abuse testing

6. Alternative GSM solution

6. Web based solutions - incl. public parolee web access databases (Georgia. USA)

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