0 the use of an electronic device that is fastened to a person, animal, or object, so that police, scientists, or other people can know where they are:
She is serving 18 months of home detention and electronic monitoring.
US He was released by the judge on electronic monitoring.
He surgically implants electronic monitoring devices that record the whereabouts of Steller sea lions and transmit the information to satellites.
He was allowed to return home under electronic monitoring and a nighttime curfew.
He was put under house arrest, with an electronic monitoring device around his ankle.
He wants to reduce costly medical errors by offering incentives for improved medical technology, such as electronic monitoring of prescriptions.
