Radio-Frequency (RF) Monitoring
Definition
A monitoring method that confirms only whether a person is within a fixed radius of a home base unit, used mainly to enforce a curfew.
Related terms
- Electronic Monitoring
- The use of radio-frequency ankle tags or GPS tracking devices to enforce curfews or geographic exclusion zones as a condition of bail,...
- Home Detention
- A form of custody or supervision served at a person's residence rather than in a correctional facility, usually monitored electronically.
- Net Widening
- The expansion of formal state control that occurs when a diversionary or community-based measure draws in minor cases that would otherwise have...
- Ankle Bracelet
- The common name for the wearable transmitter unit used in both RF and GPS electronic monitoring programmes.
- Curfew Monitoring
- The use of an electronic device to verify that a person remains at a specified address during set hours, commonly enforced with...
- Curfew Order
- A court or supervisory requirement that a person remain at a specified address during set hours, commonly enforced with RF monitoring.
- GPS Monitoring
- A monitoring method that reports a person's continuous or near-continuous location and can enforce exclusion and inclusion zones anywhere, not only at...
- GPS Tracking
- A monitoring method that reports a person's continuous or near-continuous location and can enforce exclusion and inclusion zones anywhere, not only at...