Pro Tech Monitoring, founded in 1995, has been a leader in the GPS offender tracking market since 1997.  Pro Tech Monitoring, Inc. is a Delaware corporation, founded in July 1995.  Pro Tech is headquartered in Odessa, Florida, and currently employs approximately fifty-five people.

Using the experience gained in tracking more than 20,000 offenders, Pro Tech has continually improved the SMART® system over the last several years, resulting in a mature product ideally suited to meet community supervision needs across the country.

The SMART® system is currently in use with more then 120 federal, state, county and local government agencies, including the Florida Department of Corrections, the Colorado Department of Corrections, the Kansas Department of Corrections, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, federal pretrial and probation agencies, and numerous private agencies supporting pre- and post-adjudication offenders.  To date, Pro Tech Monitoring is the only company in the world that has successfully fielded equipment to track offenders using GPS.

The Pro Tech Monitoring SMART® System utilizes GPS position information from Defense Department satellites, the cellular networking system, proprietary software, our Customer Call Center, and our Surveillance Data Center to make the SMART® System a reliable and user-friendly offender tracking tool for corrections officers.

Pro Tech's SMART® system provides real-time tracking of offenders (active tracking), and post-process (passive) tacking capabilities.  An ankle bracelet transmitter electronically tethers the offender to a Portable Tracking Device or the Miniature Tracking Device, which communicates position and compliance information to the Surveillance Data Center over a wireless connection (active), or a standard land-line connection (passive).  Corrections officers are provided with unlimited access to the stored data via a secure Internet connection or by contacting our 24/7 Call Center.  Data availability is guaranteed by multiple redundant phone lines, backup power supplies, an emergency generator, and a mirrored, fully capable backup facility located 185 miles from our primary facility.  Tracking data less than one year old is available online and data older than one year is stored indefinitely and is available on an unlimited basis upon request.

Pro Tech provides notification of noncompliance via pager, email, and/or fax.  Victims and potential victims also may be equipped with a pager to provide early warning of an offender entering a specified exclusion zone (active tracking only).  To aid in assessing offender compliance trends, Pro Tech makes several violation summary reports available for online viewing or printing.  Equipment usage reports, maintenance reports, and other summary level reports also are available.

One of the most useful tools provided as part of the system is the mapping capability, which is accessed via secure Intemet for displaying real-time position and historical tracking data.  The proprietary mapping software provides the officer with a useful tool for viewing an offender's position and tracks relative to established inclusion zones and exclusion zones that have been established by the corrections officer for the offender.  Compliant and noncompliant points are easily discernable with time, speed and direction information also displayed.