Precision Dynamics is using passive RFID wristbands to track jailhouse prisoners. Right now, the company is in local jails, but state prisons are next.
“We currently have three facilities (jails) up and running,” said Tom Foster, RFID patron management specialist for Precision Dynamics. “We also have a dozen water parks up and running so you don’t have to carry a wallet,” he said of the company’s RFID Clincher wristband.
Because Clincher uses passive RFID tags, the cost per inmate at county jails is extremely low, about $1.50 to $2, said Victor LaRosa, PDC’s age/ID manager for patron management. “Our cost to entry is a lot less than if you were using active tags.”
“Correction officers are strapped to the hilt and governments don’t have a half million dollars to implement this,” added Mr. Foster of active RFID technology. “We can get them up and running for $10.000.” He believes that using active RFID technology to track prisoners “is overkill.”
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