FEDS DEVELOPING DEVICE TO ‘CONTINUOUSLY MONITOR’ HOW MUCH AMERICANS DRINK

Wednesday, May 11, 2016
By Paul Martin

WATCH WOULD ALERT POLICE WHEN PAST DUI OFFENDERS ‘INDULGE THEMSELVES IN SOCIAL DRINKING’

BY: Elizabeth Harrington
FreeBeacon.com
May 11, 2016

The federal government is investing in technology to “continuously monitor” how much Americans are drinking if they have been arrested for driving under the influence (DUI).

The National Science Foundation awarded $50,000 to Florida International University to develop a watch-like device linked to a smartphone that police departments could use to monitor the blood alcohol content of DUI offenders.

“The proposed technology aims to provide law enforcement and judiciary agencies the real-time blood alcohol content data of the driving under influence offenders,” according to a grant for the project. “It can be used as a blood-alcohol-content alert system by the user while they indulge themselves in social drinking.”

Shekhar Bhansali, chair of the electrical and computer engineering Department at Florida International University who is leading the project, said he and his partners just incorporated a company, Spot BAC, last week, and are working with police departments in Miami so they can eventually use the technology.

“We are now building up a set of prototypes that should be tested because anything that has a biological measurement needs a lot of tests,” Bhansali told the Washington Free Beacon. “We went to find partners to actually deploy it and see that this really works in a controlled setting. A lot of wearable devices that hit the market is typically hobby-sensing, if you will. It’s like I want to know where I am, which is okay, as long as the information you’re pulling out does not have any negative consequences.”

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