| 摘要 |
A social alarm system is provided for monitoring the safety and wellbeing of a person within their home. A client unit 100 is installed in their home which communicates over a channel 300 with a remote monitoring server apparatus 200. Testing the client unit 100 includes setting a test reminder period in the client unit, and performing a test procedure at the client unit after the test reminder period. The client unit 100 is then reset in relation to a subsequent iteration of the test procedure. The test reminder period then comprises a fixed time period combined with a variable time element within a predetermined time range. The fixed time period may comprise for example 30 days, whilst the variable time period may comprise between 5 and 10 days. The setting of a test reminder period based on a fixed time period combined with a variable time element reduces the possibility of a number of individual client units performing a test call to a monitoring centre at the same time and thus overloading the monitoring centre. |
