Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Alan David Brav

Tomas Russ

Jeff Li

Pavan Reddy

Bin Wu

Stephen Ledingham

Martin E Henderson

Paul Baril

Joshua A Hanson

William G MacIver

Jinyan Li

Brian Gallagher

Anson William Wooding

William S Prenovitz

William G Maciver

A Personal Emergency Response System (PERS) includes a call device () with a call button (), LAN (), WAN (), and locator service(s) (). The PERS further includes a hub or gateway device (). The call device is programmed to periodically send transmissions to the hub or gateway device using the LAN, recognize based on the transmissions that the call device is no longer in a home geo-fence, and transition to communicating using the WAN in response to recognizing that the call device is no longer in the home geo-fence. The transition also includes turning on the locator service(s). The call button triggers the call device to contact the hub or gateway device using the LAN, or a PERS call center when using the WAN. A speaker () and microphone () are built into the call device for use when communicating using the WAN.

In home transition for data and power management of personal emergency response system (PERS) device

A mobile button device () comprises a call button (), a local wireless link () to a communicator (), and a cellular connection (). The mobile button device is programmed to perform an alarm reporting method including: originating an alarm by sending the alarm via the local wireless link to the communicator for alarm reporting by the communicator; after sending the alarm to the communicator, monitoring alarm reporting status via the local wireless link to the communicator; and reporting the alarm via the cellular connection in response to the monitoring determining that the communicator failed to report the alarm. For example, the monitoring may include polling the communicator via the local wireless link and the monitoring determines that the communicator failed to report the alarm if the polling indicates the communicator is unavailable () or a timeout condition () is reached.

Alarm reporting fail over mechanism

A personal emergency response system (PERS) includes a base unit () and one or more extension units (). The base unit includes a speaker (), a microphone (), a telephone interface circuit (), a microcontroller (), and an autodialer (). Each extension unit includes a speaker (), a microphone (), a telephone interface circuit (), and a controller () without an autodialer. The base unit controller () and the extension unit controller () are programmed such that in a help mode, the base unit controller and the extension unit controller assume a master/slave relationship.

Speakerphone and extension speakerphone for use in personal emergency response system

A communicator for a personal emergency response system determines, when a power switch is switched on, whether the communicator has previously successfully performed at least one predetermined installation sequence. If the communicator has previously completed the installation sequence, it bypasses the installation sequence. If the communicator has not previously completed the installation sequence, it prompts the user through the installation sequence using a series of audible or text prompts. During the installation sequence, the user is prompted to perform range testing to verify the operation of a transmitter in conjunction with the communicator in the personal emergency alarm system in one or more locations.

Installation of a personal emergency response system

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Alan David Brav