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Abstract: 

Most of the innovation and growth in Electronic Monitoring in the last decade has centered on increasingly sophisticated applications of Global Positioning Systems (GPS). GPS has become so widely used that it’s easy to forget that most EM programs still employ—indeed, still depend on—Radio Frequency systems to monitor the majority of offenders currently under remote supervision. Radio Frequency (RF) technology has been used for the remote monitoring of offenders for more than 25 years, when the first commercial systems were introduced to the courts and corrections. Ironically, in the near term the conversion to GPS may come not as a result of its richer and more robust tracking capabilities, but rather as a result of adjustments that permit GPS to more closely imitate the features of RF systems. The author examines the pros and cons and state of the art.

Keywords: Innovation in RF technology

Affiliations:  1: Satellite Tracking of People.