Overview
Care@Home™ Emergency Pendant Advanced User Guide
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Overview
The Essence Emergency Pendant Advanced (EPA) and the Emergency Pendant Advanced Jewelry
(EPAJ) are innovative, wearable, multi-function emergency pendants for detecting falls and signaling
emergency situations, which are integrated with Care@Home™. The operation and features of both
pendants are the same. The pendant can be used:
At home, with basic service
At home and away from home, with
Active
service
The pendant is meant to always be with the resident, worn using the supplied lanyard.
When the pendant detects a fall, or the pendant button is pressed, the pendant sends an emergency
message to the control panel, which passes the message to the monitoring station.
Pendant features include:
Fully water resistant (IP67)
Wireless connectivity with the control panel of up to 400 m (1,312 ft.) in the open air
Up to two years battery life
Configurable emergency press duration
Lightweight
LED indication
