Meckenheim, 19 January 2017
State of emergency in UK prisons: The violence against staff and fellow prisoners is steadily increasing, as is the case with the use of drugs and illegal mobile phones. Especially the latter number has dramatically increased in 2015 with more than 15,000 handsets and sim cards recovered in jails over the year. The real figure is likely to be much higher.

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TV-report on the successful implementation of MobileWall mobile detection and elimination technology in the prison of St. Pölten, Austria. Broadcast 16-08-2016, 07:00 pm, in "Lower Austria Today - Latest News from the Federal States."

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Meckenheim, 01 August 2016
1,426 mobile phones have been seized by the Berlin prison staff during 2015. This is almost 41 percent more than during the same period one year before. The figures published by the Berlin Senate Administration for Justice and Consumer Protection reveal: Illegally smuggled mobile phones are a steadily growing issue in the penitentiary system, especially since the dark figure of devices inside the prison walls is presumably many times higher. The City of Berlin responds to the growing security gap with technological armament.

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Meckenheim, 30 October 2015
Smartphones are not only ubiquitous in pupils’ private life, but also in school life. In a survey published at the beginning of this year by the German digital industry association BITKOM 92 per cent of the pupils aged from 14 to 19 answered that they regularly take their mobile phones into school. Every tenth of them also admitted to taking advantage of them for cheating.

In order to tackle the problem and to restore equal opportunities in exams, many schools meanwhile have adopted a general ban on mobile phones. Accordingly, pupils are required to put away their mobile devices and to switch them off during school time. This applies all the more during exams and tests that, today, are often starting with the teachers on supervision duty centrally collecting all pupils’ mobile phones.

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Meckenheim, 11 April 2013
The good old cheat sheet has had its day. Today, smartphones are the much quicker and easier way to fudge on. As one of the first schools in Germany the Konrad-Adenauer-Gymnasium in Meckenheim has now in good time to the Abitur exams adopted measures to prevent cheating by equipping all public toilet areas that are released for use during the exams with MobileWall.

With the new technology all illegal mobile activity or mobile data transfer occuring in these areas is automatically detected within milliseconds, the supervising teaching staff is instantaneously informed. Since carrying or, still less, the use of mobile phones during the exams is strictly forbidden, the attempt of cheating is thus apparent. And it is then up to the school to decide how they are going to punish the infringement of rules.

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Meckenheim/New Orleans, 18 January 2013
The illegal use of mobile phones by prisoners is one of the biggest headaches facing prison services worldwide. Whether they are used for organising criminal activity on the outside, coordinating drug deals or intimidating witnesses, they represent a growing security issue.

Orleans Parish Prison in New Orleans, the 9^th biggest prison of its kind in the US, has solved this problem with the launch of a MobileWall system for detecting smuggled mobile devices. 

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