Abstract: A tracking tag worn by an individual which cooperates with a monitoring center to monitor the location of individuals. The tracking tag has a number of location determination features, including GPS and cellular geolocation methods. The tag includes a processor, flash memory, a wireless modem, a GPS receiver and tamper detection components. The tags of the system provide location information to the monitoring center on a regular periodic basis. The monitoring center maintains historical data of tag location correlated with tag positional information from both the GPS and cellular systems to enhance the verification of real-time positional information as it is received in real time from the tags. The system allows for a complex set of permissible and impermissible activities for the tag wearer and provides for detection and notification of violations.

Abstract: A data and object monitoring and response system comprising a three tier infrastructure for optimization of interoperability and task specific adaptability. The system gathers information from a plurality of distributed data gathering units and assimilates, processes, analyzes and distributes the gathered data within a common system with rule based data processing for coordinated response to the data. The data gatehring units can be locally distributed or widely disbursed. The information gathered can be real-time collection of event data, historical data, systems monitoring, or other data. Regardless of the specific nature of the data, the system taught in the present invention, addresses a number of common problems associated with the collection, assimilation, processing of data. By dividing the system into a three tier interactive structure, the data can be gathered, evaluated and processed independently and efficiently and appropriate response can be effectively implemented.