Best Practices
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Care@Home™ Pro System Installation Guide
Detection overlap can cause possible fall events not to be reported. There is a timer in the PIR that is
triggered when the PIR senses movement. The timer monitors the time until the next movement. If
movement is not detected within a pre-determined time frame, the Care@Home
™
Pro system assumes
the resident has fallen and issues a possible fall alert.
When there is detection overlap, the PIR timer is constantly reset. This makes it next to impossible to
identify a possible fall event.
The combined bathroom arrangement requires installation of special equipment to help focus the
movement detections. Install an optical limiter in each of the combined bathroom PIRs to reduce the
coverage area of each PIR. The reduced coverage area allows you to place the PIRs such that their
coverage areas do not overlap.
For more information and installation instructions about the optical limiter, refer to
Optical Limiter
in
the ESUGSC008 Care@Home
™
PIR User Guide.
4.2.3
Pets on the Premises
If the resident has a pet, it is important to block the movement sensors from registering the pet’s
movement. Do this by installing a pet immune lens in the PIR and IPD devices.
For more information and installation instructions about the pet-immune lens:
For the PIR, refer to
Pet Immune Lens
in the ESUGSC008 Care@Home
™
PIR User Guide.
For the IPD, refer to
Installing Pet Immune Lens
in the ESUGSC006 Care@Home
™
IPD User
Guide.
