AirGATE to provide RFID-enabled wristbands to monitor inmates phone calls

Allen, Texas-based AirGATE Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of the X-Change Corporation (OTC BB: XCHC), has signed an agreement with Irving, Texas-based Securus Technologies to provide its (that is, AirGATE’s) RFID technology for use in the law enforcement industry and homeland security markets. AirGATE will provide radio frequency identification (RFID)-enabled wristbands and will integrate its RFID scanner within the SECURUS telephone systems. SECURUS is the country’s largest independent supplier of detainee telecommunications and information management solutions, serving more than 3,100 correctional facilities in the United States. The scanner reads the inmate identification from the inmate’s wristband when a phone call is made. Serving the prison population in the United States is good business: There are more than 2.2 million inmates in the United States. AirGATE has granted SECURUS an exclusive, worldwide license on the technology. AirGATE will receive a fee per phone call for use of its technology. Inmates make more than 1,000,000 phone calls per day in correctional institutions throughout the United States. In addition, AirGATE will participate in the revenue generated from other RFID applications.

-read more about AirGATE technology at company Web site; read this article about how SECURUS technology keeps an eye on prison inmates