The Allegheny County Jail is now using real-time biometric screening to monitor medically vulnerable incarcerated people.<\/p>\n
Called OverWatch, the technology comes in the form of devices worn on the wrist. It was created by 4Sight Labs.<\/p>\n
The screening can be used on those going through detox, on suicide watch or being housed in other high-acuity units, the jail announced Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we began this process, we understood that the technology we selected would be responsible for protecting some of the most vulnerable individuals in our facility, and that is not a responsibility we took lightly,\u201d said Holly Martin, deputy warden of healthcare services.<\/p>\n
The jail bought 100 devices, which will be placed on any new arrival that meets the criteria, she said.<\/p>\n
OverWatch measures heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, skin temperature, stress levels, sleep quality and more.<\/p>\n
The metrics provide a \u201ccomplete, continuous picture\u201d of the incarcerated person\u2019s condition, as well as real-time monitoring.<\/p>\n
With the technology, jail staff do not have to rely on self-reporting from people \u201cwho may be unable or unwilling to communicate their own conditions,\u201d the jail said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe deployment will support enhanced safety, real-time monitoring, and operational visibility within the county\u2019s corrections environment,\u201d said 4Sight Labs CEO David Sanders.<\/p>\n
OverWatch has a 14-day battery life.<\/p>\n
OverWatch is currently being used in more than 80 corrections facilities in 18 states, according to the company\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
It has collected more than 4 million hours of biometric monitoring data from more than 50,000 people who are incarcerated.<\/p>\n
Of those, it has documented more than 174 verified life-saving responses by corrections agencies, the county said.<\/p>\n
The contract to 4Sight Labs was awarded in March. The cost for the equipment was $105,190.72, while the annual service fees for monitoring and generating reports is $211,750, the jail said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Allegheny County Jail is now using real-time biometric screening to monitor medically vulnerable incarcerated people. Called OverWatch,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-253876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}