Technology Systems International Inc. (TSI) was awarded a contract valued at approximately $3 million to install a radio frequency identification (RFID)-based TSI PRISM inmate tracking system at an undisclosed U.S. state prison facility.
System installation has commenced and the project is scheduled for completion in November.
"This new contract award is particularly significant in that this project will represent TSI's largest and most complex installation to date," says Greg Oester, president of TSI. "The TSI PRISM system will track and assist in managing a population of up to several thousand inmates in a medium security facility with over 30 prison buildings spread over a 25 acre site."
TSI, the RFID tracking technology subsidiary of Alanco Technologies Inc., Scottsdale, Ariz., has developed tracking technology featuring proprietary software and patented hardware components, marketed as the TSI PRISM system. The TSI PRISM system is used for area security management and personnel monitoring with a market focus on the corrections industry, where the system provides continuous, real-time prison inmate and officer identification and tracking capabilities indoors and out.
"This third, and largest, contract award in 2002 confirms that the TSI technology has completed its transition from pilot development to the initial phase of its penetration into the large corrections industry market," says Robert Kauffman, chairman and chief executive officer of Alanco.
Alanco Technologies Inc. is a provider of information technology solutions with a strategic focus upon RFID tracking technology through TSI, which it acquired in May
