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General Description:

The SecureAlert Beacon is to be used with the SecureAlert “Valentine” offender tracking

device. The beacon, when used with the “Valentine” ankle bracelet, will provide

additional tracking functionality over the normal offender tracking capability. The

beacon is to be mounted in the confinement space, high on a wall and out of normal

reach. The beacon device provides a periodic low level wireless signal that can be

detected by the Valentine ankle bracelet within the offender's home or place of

confinement. When the bracelet cannot detect the beacon signal, the Offender is

understood to have left the space.

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Note: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital

device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable

protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial

environment. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not

installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual, may cause harmful interference to

radio communications. Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful

interference in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at his own expense.

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Installation Materials Needed:

The beacon must be equipped with fresh batteries when being deployed or re-deployed.

It is shipped with two fresh batteries. The life of these batteries will vary. It is expected

to be from 9 months to a year. If the beacon batteries need to be replaced, a “replace

battery” message will come from the Monitoring Center. A screw driver is needed to

remove the two screws that hold the back cover in place. The batteries are mounted

inside this cover. Please observe the polarity indications during mounting. It requires

two AA batteries.

Nothing else is needed since the beacon is shipped with a 3M “command strip” already

applied to the back of beacon so that it will adhere to the wall with this tape.

Summary of content (4 pages)

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Beacon v3 User manual General Description: The SecureAlert Beacon is to be used with the SecureAlert “Valentine” offender tracking device. The beacon, when used with the “Valentine” ankle bracelet, will provide additional tracking functionality over the normal offender tracking capability. The beacon is to be mounted in the confinement space, high on a wall and out of normal reach.
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Installation Instructions 1. The first step is to assign the beacon’s ID to a specific location by using the Tracker-Pal PC interface. The beacon ID is displayed on a label mounted on the beacon itself. 2. A “Valentine” offender tracking device will need to have an eArrest rule associated with the beacon ID entered into Tracker-Pal. This rule will require that the offender’s bracelet be within the transmission distance of the beacon for the hours of the day as entered into Tracker-Pal.
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8. Observe that, after another one to two seconds more, the green LED will blink three times again. This indicates that the beacon is going through its arming process. 9. For the next 30 seconds, observe that the beacon LED will flash green once every 5 seconds. The data transmissions have begun and if the OTD is present, it will be accompanied by a beep from the bracelet. 10. After this 30 second period, there will be no more blinks or beeps as the beacon continues its periodic transmissions. 11.
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2. On the beacon, move the power switch to the ON position through the hole in the back cover. 3. Place the beacon on a horizontal surface like a table or counter top with the back down on the surface. The ARM switch should be visible facing up. 4. Press and hold the ARM button for 1 to 2 seconds until the LED flashes three times and then let go. 5. This procedure will command the beacon to enter a test mode where it will send out three test messages.