SHELTERED HOUSING SCHEMES COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM

摘要

A sheltered housing communications system comprises a plurality of sheltered housing groups each having tenanted houses (14) interconnected to a wardens house (12) accommodating a terminal (20) by means of a communications network (13). A communications centre (10) functionally duplicates the terminal (20) for a plurality of wardens houses (12) and are connected by communications channels (11) to the respective wardens terminals (20) and each wardens house (12) comprises means (29) for switching the pertaining local network (13) through to the communications centre (10) so as to bypass the local wardens terminal (20).