OMNILINK INTRODUCES WIRELESS MONITORING PRODUCT FOCALPOINT 2.0
New Mapping and Location Features Further Advance Category Leadership
Atlanta, GA - April 30, 2007 -Omnilink, pioneer of vital status service technology, today announced the launch of its next generation offender monitoring technology, FocalPoint 2.0. Setting a new offender monitoring standard in 2005, FocalPoint is the only single-unit solution that tracks inside buildings and other places where GPS-only solutions do not work. The updated version enhances the user experience through more powerful mapping engines and precision location tracking capabilities that include proactive mobile phone alerts.
Updated in conjunction with feedback from judicial industry customers, and location-based services and wireless industry experts, Omnilink’s FocalPoint 2.0 also tracks off-the-shelf cell phones that victims carry to detect when the offender comes too close to the victim, as mandated by the judicial system. In addition, FocalPoint 2.0 users receive automated voice alerts when violations occur. A new, proprietary algorithm ensures that these alerts are accurate, thus eliminating the issue of false alerts, which have traditionally plagued the industry. Omnilink’s FocalPoint 2.0 is currently deployed in more than 18 states across the United States.
“Personal safety is greatly enhanced when judicial agencies have the tools they need to effectively enforce accountability and compliance with offenders in alternative sanction programs,” explains Omnilink CEO Steve Aninye. “With a previous release, we delivered a physically superior product, a true single-unit device that is waterproof and tracks in places where other GPS devices do not. With FocalPoint 2.0, we focused on optimizing the user experience while increasing accuracy as well as providing numerous incremental features that our customers requested.”
Omnilink's monitoring solutions bring an unprecedented level of efficiency and effectiveness to alternative sanction programs. Unlike any other product in the industry, Focalpoint uses a combination of cellular technology and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to provide sophisticated location awareness information in real time, even when offenders are inside buildings, buses, trains or tunnels.
Omnilink’s Web-based application makes it easy for law enforcement professionals to specify monitoring criteria, including allowed and excluded location zones, travel time and routes, and even proximity to other monitored individuals.
“Our goal is to deliver a new standard in surveillance for America’s law enforcement,” Aninye says. “With FocalPoint 2.0, officers know with even greater certainty where their offenders are and where they have been, allowing more time to focus on managing offenders as opposed to spending their time managing the technology.”
About Omnilink Systems
Omnilink Systems provides the real-time location of people and valuable assets through unique location-based services technology that goes beyond traditional GPS. Our judicial solutions are transforming offender monitoring by providing officers with immediate visibility to offender locations anytime, anywhere. Government agencies across the country rely on Omnilink Systems' single-unit solutions to effectively manage offenders in a variety of alternative sanctions programs. Through our network of value-added solutions partners, Omnilink's commercial solutions provide the real-time location of people and critical assets when their safety and security are of paramount importance. For more information, please visit www.omnilink.com or call 678-624-5900.
