HALO ID

Coming Spring 2027

Know Who. Know Where. Know When.

HALO ID is being developed to help funeral homes, crematories, morgues, removal services and institutional facilities identify each decedent, document every movement, and connect each case to the people, locations and refrigeration conditions involved in their care.

From first call and removal through preparation, refrigeration, cremation and final release, HALO ID is designed to create one clear, time-stamped chain-of-custody record.

Developed within the American Mortuary Coolers and American Mortuary Equipment ecosystem. Planned Launch: Spring 2027.

HALO ID is currently in development and is not yet available. This page describes planned capabilities. Features, supported devices, integrations, and release timing may change before Spring 2027.

Identity Tracking Meets Mortuary Cooler Monitoring

HALO ID is being developed as the identity and workflow layer of the HALO platform — the decedent tracking, chain-of-custody, and prep-room workflow software companion to HALO Monitoring's mortuary cooler temperature and alert technology.

HALO ID identifies and follows the case. HALO Monitoring watches the conditions surrounding the case. Together, they are designed to create a more complete record of care.

The planned integration is designed to associate a case with its assigned cooler, rack and tray position; the time placed into and removed from refrigeration; cooler temperature history and door or alert events affecting that location; and the staff member and reason for each movement.

Designed Around the Complete Decedent Care Journey

HALO ID's planned workflow is built to follow a case from first call through final release, with a scan or verification event expected at each stage:

1. First call received
2. Removal team assigned
3. Identity established
4. Transfer into care documented
5. Arrival and intake verified
6. Personal effects recorded
7. Cooler and exact position assigned
8. Preparation-room movement documented
9. Dressing or casketing step recorded
10. Crematory or service transfer verified
11. Final release documented
12. Case record archived

Scan With a Phone or a Dedicated HALO Device

HALO ID is being planned to support a range of devices — iPhone and Android cameras, a shared facility tablet, a dedicated rugged handheld scanner, and fixed intake or prep-room scanning stations, with optional future NFC capability. The core planned movement workflow: scan the decedent tag, scan the destination location, confirm the employee, record the movement, and update the live case timeline.

The QR code is intended to contain a secure case identifier — not personal or medical information displayed openly in the code.

Planned identification supplies include an ID band, pouch tag, property label, employee badge, location plate, handheld scanner and scan station. Final supplier and hardware specifications will be announced before launch.

Know the Exact Cooler Position Assigned to Every Case

The planned location hierarchy runs from organization and facility down to refrigeration room, cooler, rack, and tray position — for example: Main Facility › Cooler 2 › Rack B › Position 3. This is designed to support faster case location, reduced reliance on handwritten boards, occupancy visibility, position-conflict warnings, and multicooler and multilocation oversight, tied to the same walk-in and upright mortuary coolers, racking systems and HALO cooler alarm equipment your facility already runs.

Extending Accountability Beyond the Cooler

Planned tracking extends into intake, holding, preparation, embalming, dressing, casketing, visitation, crematory holding and final release — recording the assigned table, responsible employee, configurable workflow steps, time outside refrigeration, and return to an exact cooler position. This connects directly to embalming and prep tables, first-call cots, and mortuary lifts from the American Mortuary Equipment line.

A Time-Stamped Record of Every Custody Event

Each planned event is designed to capture the case identifier, event type, employee, origin, destination, date and time, device, reason, and any required verification. Corrections are planned to follow an append-only, tamper-evident activity history: the original event remains visible, a correction becomes a new event, and the reason and correcting employee are recorded.

Personal Effects, Tracked With the Case

Planned property tracking covers clothing, jewelry, wallets, identification, mobile phones, documents, prosthetics, medical devices, cremation containers, urns, property bags and serialized seals — linked to the case without exposing unnecessary personal information.

Additional Verification for Cremation Workflows

Planned cremation controls include identity and authorization-status confirmation, container assignment, an implant checklist, crematory transfer, retort assignment, operator verification, and dual-employee confirmation at configured steps. HALO ID is being designed to support an organization's identification and documentation procedures — not replace required state identification tags, permits, facility policy, human verification, or applicable law.

Planned for Multiple Types of Facilities

More Than Body Tracking

Most tracking platforms document movement. HALO is being developed to connect movement with the mortuary refrigeration environment. A conventional tracking system may show that a case was placed in Cooler 2. The planned HALO connection is designed to also show when the case entered, the assigned rack and tray, the temperature during storage, whether an excursion or door-open event occurred, whether power was interrupted, when the case left refrigeration, and which employee completed each movement. See HALO Monitoring, the HALO cooler alarm system, and how HALO service works today.

Coming Spring 2027

Spring 2027 is the current target launch window. Final release timing, features, hardware support and availability may change as testing and validation are completed.

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