Abstract: A text message containing a natural language request is sent from an originating station to a central server. The server parses the request and uses the originating station identification to authorize the request and determine the address of the object. The server then sends a request to the address of the object, the object acts upon the request and sends results and acknowledgements back to the server, where the results and acknowledgement are translated back into a natural language and sent to the originating station.

Abstract: A docking station is located in an offender's home. It is connected to a transformer, and a wireless modem. The docking station includes a processor board containing a microprocessor which receives the offender's home schedule from a central monitoring station via a cellular network and communicates with a miniature tracking device positioned in the docking station when the offender is at home and on the belt of an offender when he is away from home. The miniature tracking device receiving GPS signals. A tamper resistant bracelet transmitter permanently positioned on the offender's ankle communicates by wireless transmission to the tracking device.