User's Manual

Introduction and Overview
Version: 2.3 3 10/15/2009
THE SCRAM SYSTEM
The system that has been developed is called SCRAM - Secure Continuous Remote
Alcohol Monitor. There are three parts to the SCRAM System:
• The SCRAM Bracelet
• The SCRAM Modem
• SCRAM
NET
The heart of the SCRAM System is the bracelet, which is attached to the client’s ankle
and measures ethanol emitted through the skin. Twenty-four hour monitoring reduces the
client’s ability to manipulate his or her drinking patterns to avoid detection. The system
time stamps and stores all readings and any tamper indications and sends this information
via the SCRAM Modem (or Direct Connect) to SCRAM
NET at designated time intervals
without client involvement.
Although several different remote alcohol monitoring devices are on the market, few
have the advantages and benefits of the SCRAM System, which include:
• Collecting alcohol readings 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, regardless of the
location or activity of the client.
• Measuring alcohol consumption to determine low, medium, or high levels of
alcohol consumption.
• Enabling supervising agencies to determine how often the client is to be tested.
• Requiring little client participation, and enabling clients to maintain normal daily
routines such as work, counseling, community service, family obligations, and
recreation.
• Tamper-detection features that identify an unauthorized bracelet removal and
sense the presence of an obstruction that is applied to defeat the bracelet.
• A patented interferant detection system that guards against false positives.
HOW SCRAM WORKS
Alcohol concentration cannot be accurately determined solely on the basis of the amount
of alcohol a person has consumed. The exact quantity consumed, times of ingestion, body
weight, rate of absorption and elimination vary from person to person. After
consumption, alcohol rapidly becomes associated with all parts of the body where water
is retained, such as sweat, mucus, and breath. Consequently, in recent years, law
enforcement officials have measured the estimated amount of alcohol in the body by
determining a Breath Alcohol Concentration (BrAC).
In order to obtain a BrAC reading, law enforcement officials typically conduct a
supervised breath analysis test, which measures alcohol concentration in a “deep lung
breath”. Simply stated, a breath alcohol test measures ethanol that has migrated through
the lining of the lungs and is exhaled.
SCRAM is a pioneer product that incorporates technology using the science of
transdermal testing to determine a person’s Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) level.