Electronic Monitoring System for Offender Route Compliance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current electronic monitoring systems face challenges in tracking individuals' locations during vehicular transportation, as existing technologies do not effectively collect location data and enforce location restrictions imposed on offenders within the criminal justice system.
Innovation Solution
A system that includes a storage device for location restrictions, a processor to calculate and approve routes, and a navigation system that alerts users and authorities if the route intersects restricted areas, ensuring compliance with imposed restrictions by generating alternative routes and issuing alerts for deviations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If electronic monitoring systems use cellular networks to transmit GPS data to a remote central database, then location tracking capability is improved, but monitoring continuity deteriorates during vehicular transportation when restrictions are removed
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-calculates and stores approved routes before transportation begins. The central database contains pre-approved routes that have been determined to comply with location restrictions, allowing the monitoring system to function reliably during transportation without requiring real-time restriction evaluation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts monitoring based on the transportation context. During vehicular transportation, the system transitions from strict real-time restriction enforcement to route-based monitoring, where compliance is determined by following pre-approved routes rather than continuous geographic restriction checking.
2Reliability
If the system calculates and approves routes before transportation, then monitoring reliability during transport is improved, but system complexity increases due to route calculation and comparison mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
Route calculation and approval processes are performed in advance before transportation begins. The complex geometric comparisons and restriction checks are completed beforehand, storing only the approved routes for later simple comparison during transportation.
Solution Approach 2:
The monitoring process is divided into distinct phases: pre-transportation route calculation phase and in-transportation compliance verification phase. Each phase handles specific tasks, reducing the computational burden and system complexity required during the actual transportation monitoring.
3Measurement precision
If the system performs real-time geometric comparison of route segments with restriction areas, then route compliance accuracy is improved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
All geometric comparisons between route segments and restriction areas are performed in advance during the route approval phase. The system pre-determines which routes comply with restrictions, storing the results for rapid retrieval and comparison during transportation without requiring real-time computational analysis.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a system that receives a request for calculation of one or more routes between a user specified starting location and a destination location and retrieve restrictions in a list corresponding to one or more location restrictions imposed on an individual, with each restriction including a restriction area. The system receive calculated routes and restrictions and whether the segments of the routes intersect areas that define the restrictions in the list. The system issues an approval for each route where no segment of the route intersects any of the restriction areas. Also disclosed is tracking of a user according to approved routes.