Radar Technology Revolutionizes UK and Ireland Correctional Facilities
The partnership between Xandar Kardian, a Toronto-based industry leader in radar signal processing technology, and The Lava Group, a Belfast-based provider of innovative safer custody and connected health technology, is set to revolutionize correctional facilities in the UK and Ireland. This integrated partnership will focus on deploying Xandar Kardian’s technology in correctional and law enforcement settings throughout the region.
Innovative solutions for safer custody
The corrections industry in the UK and Ireland faces numerous challenges, including resource and retention problems, addiction issues, and addressing the psychological health needs of inmates. This makes the market an ideal match for upgrades to its inmate monitoring and healthcare technology through the help of Xandar Kardian.
“Our partnership embodies a pivotal opportunity for correctional institutions and detention facilities that are in desperate need of difference-making innovation,” said Gareth Morrison, CEO of The Lava Group.
The Lava Group has already generated significant interest in Xandar Kardian’s sensors, with several pilot programs scheduled to begin in correctional facilities in the coming months. As the alliance matures, Xandar Kardian and The Lava Group also intend to explore co-developing products that can further improve and optimize presence detection and inmate healthcare monitoring for correctional settings.
Transforming inmate healthcare monitoring
Every year, thousands of inmates die while incarcerated. Around 40% of these deaths are the result of cardiovascular or respiratory illness, overdose, or suicide. In the UK, a prisoner dies by suicide every four days, and by cardiovascular illness or drug-related overdose every six days. These challenges are urgent and pervasive, but they’re not inevitable. Xandar Kardian has been credited with helping to prevent dozens of opioid-related overdoses and medically related deaths in the jails where it is presently deployed.
Xandar Kardian’s autonomous, radar-based vital signs monitoring can help protect inmates’ safety by obtaining highly accurate vital sign measurements while prioritizing privacy, security, and staff wellbeing. The company’s sensors require no wearables on the inmate, no video or audio recordings, and no battery to change, providing a completely autonomous, continuous, and privacy-secure health-monitoring solution.
Protecting inmates and staff with autonomous monitoring
Xandar Kardian’s sensors keep guards and staff safe because they are completely contact-free – no wearables, no camera, no microphones, or staff intervention required, meaning no direct interactions with inmates that can be physically threatening. Once deployed, Xandar Kardian’s sensors are linked to a secure local network that provides a “paper trail” of data for each inmate, minimizing organizational risk and serving as an extremely useful resource should additional medical intervention be required from hospital providers.
