Behaviour & Life Signs Monitoring
Tephra Behaviour and Life Signs Monitoring is an innovative AI-powered in-cell monitoring solution that empowers custody staff to prevent incidents before they escalate. It provides real-time intelligence on high-risk behaviours, vital signs tracking and instant alerts, allowing staff to intervene quickly and reduce serious incidents.
When incidents occur, Tephra Behaviour and Life Signs Monitoring transforms post-incident analysis. Anonymised stick-person simulations offer clear, unbiased event reconstructions, reducing review time while ensuring transparency and accountability.
This powerful combination of proactive monitoring and post-incident analysis enhances safety, improves decision-making, reduces staff burden and helps custody teams uphold the highest standards of care and public trust.
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Safeguard prisoner wellbeing
Tephra’s Behaviour and Life Signs Monitoring can help address custodial challenges by providing continuous insight into prisoner behaviour and alerts to sudden changes requiring intervention. This positively impacts prisoner health and wellbeing and can alleviate stressful environments. Latest figures show:
Every 4 days
On average, a prisoner in the UK dies by suicide
1 in 5
suicides occur within the person’s first 30 days in custody
1 in 7
suicide cases occur within the first week.
One in every 7
minutes a self harm incident occurs in prison
Background
Custodial settings are high risk environments where staff must balance safety, security and rehabilitation, while facing the growing challenge of rising self harm, suicide attempts and the urgent need to support vulnerable prisoners before incidents escalate.
Despite best efforts, traditional monitoring methods such as scheduled checks and CCTV, leave critical gaps where key moments of distress often go unnoticed. Vital sign alerts, while valuable, provide only a small window to react, when an incident is already unfolding, limiting the opportunity for preventative action.
With increasing pressures on staff and resources, the need for proactive real-time solution that identifies risk before it escalates has never been greater.
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Enhanced security benefits
Instant alerts, faster response
Delivers instant alerts so staff can act quickly and reduce the severity of incidents.
Enhanced monitoring efficiency
Improves efficiency in monitoring and managing at-risk individuals across the site.
Empowers officers
Gives staff greater confidence with enhanced visibility of prisoner behaviour.
Prevent incidents through early detection
Enables staff to detect early warning signs and prevent harm.
Support wellbeing and safety
Strengthens prisoner wellbeing by reinforcing safety and continuity of care.
Reduce staff stress levels
Helps reduce workplace stress by managing traumatic incidents more effectively.
Faster investigations
Supports quick, informed decisions through unbiased reconstructions of events.
Enhanced accountability and compliance
Reinforces trust, transparency and compliance with accurate reporting.
Features
Life signs monitoring
Monitors resting heart rate and respiratory rate for life-threatening changes above or below threshold.
Real-time behaviour monitoring
Continuously and accurately tracks standard, advanced, and critical behaviours.
Visual incident asnalysis
Recreates alerts using stick-person for detailed incident review, in line with privacy and security protocols.
Advanced threat detection
Detects liquid presence and temperature changes to highlight potential risks.
Alarm generation
Routes alerts to a central dashboard, with radio notification options.
Machine learning tool
Analyses patterns of behaviour over time to help predict future agitation episodes or health decline.
Presence detection
Utilises multiple sensors for accurate presence detection of individuals and monitoring of multiple occupants.
Comprehensive reporting and data insights
Stores behaviour and vital alerts for detailed analysis over an agreed period.