TruTouch Technololgies’ light sensor-based alcohol detection system has found a home in the Salvation Army of Central Florida’s Misdemeanor Probation Department. The device, dubbed the TT2500, is now being used in the facility to screen blood-alcohol levels of participants in its Parole and Probation program.
The remarkable piece of technology is able to accurately determine blood-alcohol levels by way of a near-infrared light sensor shined on a subject’s skin, and can also provide identity authentication. It provides a facility like the Salvation Army’s Misdemeanor Probation Department with a uniquely efficient and effective means of screening the many individuals that must be tested for blood-alcohol levels in its program, allowing them to self-administer the test in as little as fifteen seconds, and to monitor the results via TruTouch’s companion software platform.
Biometric technology is increasingly finding its way into everyday life, and in some cases it can run into privacy and civil rights concerns, such as in the case of an American company that offered to screen employee health metrics to determine their eligibility for its health insurance benefits. There seems little danger of running into such concerns in this case as participants in the program are already required to go through blood-alcohol screening, and this technology only provides a benefit by making the process faster and easier; but it will be interesting to see how TruTouch’s technology navigates its many other potential applications going forward.
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December 3, 2014 – by Alex Perala
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