




ATLANTA - June 6, 2006 - Omnilink Systems, a leader in the emerging field of Vital Status Services (VSS), will launch FocalPoint, a Web-based application expected to streamline offender monitoring, at the Innovative Technologies for Community Corrections Conference, June 12-14 in Atlanta. The second component of Omnilink's comprehensive suite of monitoring solutions, FocalPoint is a highly configurable exception-based platform, enabling users to specify the monitoring criteria and receive real-time alerts if exceptions occur, via automated voice calls, text message, pager, email, fax, etc. FocalPoint's inter-operability architecture makes it very easy to integrate the system into pre-existing applications to make the customer's value chain even more effective.
“FocalPoint will allow the judicial system to enforce accountability and compliance among offenders at unprecedented levels,” said Steve Aninye, president and CEO, Omnilink Systems. “From curfew to passive to active monitoring, FocalPoint's scalability makes it the ideal tool for the judicial system and other industries that require real-time status of assets or people of interest,” he added.
After 14 months of testing with judicial service providers and other agencies, over 800 offenders have been added to the FocalPoint monitoring application in the last 60 days alone.
FocalPoint works with Omnilink i, a first-of-its-kind ankle-worn device designed for offenders. Omnilink i uses a unique combination of technologies including GPS, cellular network, AFLT and CDMA to provide location information in highly impaired environments, including inside a building, a train, a bus, etc. FocalPoint also supports other devices, including off-the-shelf cell phones, to track and provide personal safety to other people, including victims, witnesses, prosecutors and judges.
“Omnilink provides the most advanced electronic home monitoring technology available today,” said Pete Black, president, Second Watch Monitoring. “We tested an Omnilink i unit for three weeks and took it to all the places we'd had problems with offender based GPS equipment. The results were so impressive we immediately replaced several of our existing GPS units.”
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.