Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Bin Wu

Tomas Russ

Alan David Brav

Jeff Li

Pavan Reddy

Stephen Ledingham

Paul Baril

Jinyan Li

Brian Gallagher

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

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