Operating the Pendant
Care@Home™ Emergency Pendant Advanced User Guide
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5.
Operating the Pendant
Manual operation of the pendant involves pressing the button on the pendant. The pendant
automatically sends notifications to the control panel for certain events.
5.1.
Notifications
The pendant sends notifications to the control panel for the following events:
The resident presses the pendant button
The pendant detects that the resident has fallen
In addition, depending on how the control panel is configured, the pendant periodically sends
information to the control panel, including:
The temperature
The pendant battery charge percentage
5.2.
LED Indications
The pendant LED lights up as shown in the following table:
LED
Situation
Blinks
red
for 8 seconds
Pendant button pressed
Fall detection
Pendant fall detection test – refer to 4 Testing Fall
Detection on page 6.
Lights
green
for 1 second
Battery was just replaced.
5.3.
Supervision
The pendant is a supervised device. The pendant periodically transmits its status to the control panel.
The frequency of the reporting periods can be configured remotely. If after a pre-defined time the
control panel does not receive a status message, the control panel sends a
Supervision lost
message
to the monitoring station.
