Each day, supervising officers spend thousands of hours manually reviewing photos from alcohol breath testing devices. This process, originally intended to prevent test circumvention, has become a significant drain on time and resources for law enforcement and corrections agencies.
But with SCRAM Remote Breath® Pro’s intelligent facial authentication software, 90 – 95% of client photos are automatically analyzed, so officers can spend less time manually matching photos and more time on the clients who need their attention.
The Problem with Manual Photo Matching
Consider a caseload of 100 remote breath clients, each required to take four tests per day. That’s 400 photos a day, or over 146,000 photos a year to review. This requires a full-time staff member, whose time would be better spent in the community or working directly with clients.
The sheer volume of images leads to photo fatigue, where the accuracy of manual matching decreases, especially with poor-quality photos. For understaffed agencies, reviewing these photos may not even be a possibility.
The Power of Automated Facial Recognition
But SCRAM Remote Breath Pro is a proven and trusted wireless portable breath alcohol device with an intelligent, automated facial recognition system. This advanced feature significantly reduces the need for manual photo review, giving officers their time back.
Here’s how it works:
- High-Resolution Images: The device features a high-quality camera and flash, ensuring clear, high-resolution photos with every test.
- Baseline Authentication: When a client is assigned the device, the device will take baseline photos to establish a facial identity profile for future photo comparison.
- Automated Verification: The software then compares unique points on a client’s face in the real-time test photos to these baseline images. This process of matching or failing a photo happens automatically within seconds of the test.
- Enhanced Facial Guidance: The device also utilizes enhanced facial guidance, which provides visual cues to align the eyes and ensure the client takes a good photo each and every test, reducing the need to take multiple tests and increasing client compliance.
This powerful software can automatically match or fail 90–95% of photos, saving officers countless hours. Officers receive alerts for the few photos that cannot be matched, when a client fails a breath test, or if circumvention is detected. The remaining 5–10% of photos that require manual review are high-resolution and clear, making the task quick and straightforward.
SCRAM Remote Breath Pro offers a cost-effective and efficient solution for managing lower-risk alcohol clients, all while freeing up valuable officer time for more impactful supervision tasks.
