Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Eddy Louis Ursula Dejong

Hassan El Barakat

A system () for monitoring living beings, such as persons, pets or livestock comprises a monitoring device () for monitoring a living being and a user device (), such as a smartphone, which devices are arranged for communicating via an internet type connection (), and a server () arranged for communicating with the user device () via a further internet type connection (). The server () is provided with a software program for periodically initiating, through a software program in the user device (), a protocol for testing the internet type connection (). The system is thereby capable of detecting a loss of the internet type connection () between the monitoring device and the user device.

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Eindhoven, Netherlands

Eddy Louis Ursula Dejong