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Atos Origin and GlobeRanger have announced the launch of a real-time forensic tracking and tracing system for the Dutch Forensic Institute (NFI), which tracks and traces the time, location, and movement of item-level criminal evidence during forensic analysis and processing.
The NFI track and trace initiative was formulated in close cooperation between the Public Prosecution Service (OM), the police, and NFI.
Motivated by the Schiedam Park murder case report, key government standards were established requiring all pieces of criminal evidence (SVOs) to be traceable and identifiable. SVOs are items of evidence and traces collected by police at crime scenes, and sent to NFI for forensic analysis.
Each year NFI receives and tags approximately 100,000 SVOs, resulting in over 800,000 process events being generated and stored.
Atos Origin's implementation of GlobeRanger's iMotion solution for NFI applies RFID technology to capture time and location data of criminal evidence travelling on trolleys or trays being carried manually by employees.
By equipping 50 doors with RFID readers and antennas, NFI instantly tracks and logs the exact movement of evidence, updates their central information system, and makes this information immediately available for on-line viewing and actionable responses.
iMotion identifies any deviations from planned evidence movement processes as violations and immediately triggers audible and visible alarms.
A complete case study can be downloaded from GlobeRanger's web site - click here (free registration required).
Sources: GlobeRanger; Atos Origin
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