Equipment

The community alarm equipment is monitored 24 hours, 365 days a year by professional trained operators and all equipment is installed and maintained by highly qualified technicians.

Trained staff will individually assess the best equipment for you when they come to install the unit. However all of the units provide:

• A pendant that can be pressed to call for help anywhere in your garden or home
• A red illuminated button on the alarm unit that can be pressed to call for help
• A power failure monitor to tell you that the unit is unplugged. Battery back-up will ensure that the unit works for at least 16 hours after power has been removed. When the power comes back on, the battery recharges itself.

Essential Requirement

To connect a community alarm, you must be able to provide a modern telephone socket with a 13 amp electrical power point within 6 feet. There can be no obstructions such as doorways between the telephone socket and the power point.

Units for use with your own telephone

These give you the benefit of an alarm, but also allow you to keep your own phone. This is useful if you have a cordless phone or a telephone with special adaptations

Units with integral phones

These combine the benefits of an alarm with the phone and also have additional facilities such as:

• Loudspeaker Facility, answer a normal call through the loudspeaker by pressing the pendant from the comfort of your own chair
• Some have memory buttons to store telephone numbers allowing you to dial by pressing one number

Pendants

The pendant that can be pressed to call for help anywhere in your garden or home. It is water resistant and can be worn in the shower or bath. Up to two pendants can be supplied free of charge so that a client and their partner can both use the service.

Maintenance

Maintenance of all equipment will be provided as required and will be free of charge to those who rent the equipment.