BluTag® Hybrid

BluTag® Hybrid (U.S. Patent RE39,909 and RE 38,838) has the same physical attributes and share many features as BluTag® Active and BluTag® Passive. This GPS hybrid device differs from the other BluTag® devices because of its internal programming and communication.

• Offers some near real-time notifications
  BluTag® Hybrid communicates device tampering and inclusion zone violations with near real-time data like BluTag® Active. The device also allows supervising agents to “ping” it, which immediately transmits offender’s current location regardless of when the last GPS coordinates were received.
  
• Seamless transition to active GPS monitoring
  A distinct advantage of BluTag® Hybrid is its ability to easily and quickly convert to active GPS monitoring without changing out equipment. Supervising agents need only call, email or fax our dual purpose monitoring and technical support center any time of the day or night to switch the device to active GPS monitoring.
  
• Data transmissions
  BluTag® Hybrid can transmit monitoring data using a cellular network or through a radio frequency (RF) tether with BluHome™, a GPS accessory. The device transmits monitoring data approximately twice a day when using a cellular network. Those transmissions occur when the offender attaches the battery charging coupler to the BluTag® Hybrid device.
  

When BluTag® Hybrid is used in conjunction with BluHome™, the RF tether linking the two units engages when the offender enters the tether’s range. BluHome™ is installed in the offender’s residence and transmits monitoring data to VeriTracks®, our Internet-based tracking application, using a standard landline telephone connection.