OPERATING THE COMMUNICATOR
Care@Home™ Communicator 2.0 User Guide
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3.
Operating the Communicator
The Communicator sends status and event messages to the control panel.
3.1.
Calling for Help
To get help:
OR
OR
Call out the trigger phrase
Press the
Emergency
button
Pull the cord, if included
3.2.
Notifications
The Communicator sends notifications to the control panel when:
An emergency alert is triggered.
The Communicator’s battery is low.
The tamper switch is activated.
Use Care@Home CMS to configure the parameters to define how the Communicator issues
notifications to the control panel. Refer to the ESUG05074 Care@Home CMS Reference Manual.
3.3.
Supervision
The Communicator is a supervised device. The Communicator periodically transmits its status to the
control panel. If after a pre-defined time the control panel does not receive the status message, the
control panel sends a supervision lost message to the monitoring station.
