ambiact is constructed as a plug adapter and recognizes the usage of electrical appliances. If these appliances are not used for an untypically long time, ambiact wirelessly initiates an alarm through an available care phone.
Do you know how many of your customers have an accident every year in their homes without wearing their emergency call button? More than 10.000 every year! From these, less than 10% have an activated activity tracking. What happens to the remaining 90%? Activity tracking was originally integrated in care phones to help exactly these people. Nevertheless, activity tracking is only sparsely used due to too many false alarms.
From a social alarm operator’s viewpoint the ambiact is a day-to-day-suitable approach to activity tracking – WITHOUT the disadvantages of other approaches. Compared to button-press-driven activity tracking, at least 82% of false alarms are avoided. Compared to movement sensors, installation efforts are reduced massively (simply because no tools are required). Maintenance is not necessary. Thereby, activity tracking can be used by every social alarm customer as a standard functionality.Offer activity tracking as a standard service. Every year several thousand customers may get help much earlier than without!
Customers are willing to pay for additional safety provided by the ambiact. The experience shows that 5 € / month are easily accepted. ambiact should not be offered separately but in a bundle “Premium Safety” together with a care phone.
Avoid unnecessary emergency drives (costs at least 60 € / drive) initiated by false alarms (approx. 3 per customer / year) and save time for cooperating nursing services. Please check these figures with you own database!
ambiact makes social alarm usable by blind and demented people. Customers refusing to wear the emergency call button can still use activity tracking.
Installing the ambiact requires no tools. The plug adapters is simply places between power outlet and appliances and calibrated via the press of a single button. The whole procedure takes less than 60s. Towards the care phone, ambiact is handled like an emergency call button.
ambiact does not require a battery. Therefore, no maintenance is required. Plugging the device out, triggers the radio link monitoring. After being plugged in again, ambiact works like before thanks to its non-volatile memory.
ambiact can be reused for an unlimited number of times. The device is cleaned with a wet cloth.
ambiact is manufactured in Germany with high-quality components. Therefore, it has 3+1 years warranty (see our warranty conditions).
Normally, ambiact is not visible in every-day life since it is hidden by the appliances it monitors. Elderly people are already used to use plug adapters and are therefore used to these kind of devices. Since ambiact is not visible, a feeling of surveillance is not generated.
Pets can mislead movement sensors. If an elderly person fell and her cat still moves around in front of the movement sensor, this may erroneously lead to recognized activity. Such situation cannot confuse the ambiact. The activity recognition is day-to-day-proven!
ambiact is compatible with all care phones from the manufacturers Doro Care (formerly Caretech), Neat, Telealarm (formerly Bosch) and Tunstall. A complete compatibility list can be found in the manual.
ambiact can recognize the usage of all common electrical appliances including LED-lamps as well as toasters. The electrical usage of the device just has be between 1.5W and 2300W.
In sheltered housing there is always a discord between a self-determined lifestyle of the residents and a certain surveillance as part of the service offering. On one hand, every resident should be able to live the way she wants to, on the other hand no resident should wait for help longer than necessary. ambiact helps to resolve this discord!
From a sheltered housing operator’s viewpoint ambiact is an additional safety service for the residents that does not hinder their self-determined lifestyle. Thanks to ambiact, too long inactivity or absence of residents is unobtrusively detected without requiring the residents to handle or do anything. Time-consuming tours through the house in order to check the well-being of three residents are no longer required. The nurse saves time for longer visits or other tasks. ambiact is the perfect support for everyday life routines in sheltered housing!
Offer more safety to all residence without hindering an individually self-determined life style. In your house, no one needs to wait for help!
Today, nurses often make daily tours through the house in order to check the well-being of all residents. These tours are very time-consuming. Save this time and extend the time for personal visits or other tasks!
Nurses in shelted housings are responsible for nearly all concerns of the residents and are very busy. Using the ambiact, the resposibility for checking the daily well-being of the residents is shared with an external operator. This operator concentrates on this tasks and thereby it cannot happen that the nurse may miss a call for help due to beeing too busy.
Social alarm should be used by every resident. However, acceptance for this important service often fails due to the residents not being willing to wear the emergency call button every day. Using the ambiact, social alarm can be used to a certain degree from the beginning on. As soon as the resident feels endangered enough, she may start to wear the emergency call button.
Competition in sheltered housing is hard. AAL technolofy will be an important factor for differentiation in the near future. ambiact is the first day-to-day-proven approach to this technology. The device supports a self-determined lifestyle of the residents without bothering them in their daily life. Using the ambiact, you are one step ahead of your competitors!
If a resident is found too late in your house, the reason does often not matter. If the press takes the subject, bad press is nearly guaranteed. Using the ambiact, such situations are avoided.
Installing the ambiact requires no tools. The plug adapters is simply places between power outlet and appliances and calibrated via the press of a single button. The whole procedure takes less than 60s. Towards the care phone, ambiact is handled like an emergency call button.
ambiact does not require a battery. Therefore, no maintenance is required. Plugging the device out, triggers the radio link monitoring. After being plugged in again, ambiact works like before thanks to its non-volatile memory.
ambiact can be reused for an unlimited number of times. The device is cleaned with a wet cloth.
ambiact is manufactured in Germany with high-quality components. Therefore, it has 3+1 years warranty (see our warranty conditions).
Normally, ambiact is not visible in every-day life since it is hidden by the appliances it monitors. Elderly people are already used to use plug adapters and are therefore used to these kind of devices. Since ambiact is not visible, a feeling of surveillance is not generated.
Pets can mislead movement sensors. If an elderly person fell and her cat still moves around in front of the movement sensor, this may erroneously lead to recognized activity. Such situation cannot confuse the ambiact. The activity recognition is day-to-day-proven!
ambiact is compatible with all care phones from the manufacturers Doro Care (formerly Caretech), Neat, Telealarm (formerly Bosch) and Tunstall. A complete compatibility list can be found in the manual.
ambiact can recognize the usage of all common electrical appliances including LED-lamps as well as toasters. The electrical usage of the device just has be between 1.5W and 2300W.
ambiact can be obtained from your cooperating nursing service or social alarm operator. For large-scale projects, ambiact can be directly bought from oldntec.
Answered in general: No. If the emergency call button is worn in case of an accident, it is the most direct way to call for help. For most social alarm users, ambiact is a safeguard for these situations in which the emergency call button is not worn. ambiact can replace the emergency call button for these customers that refuse to wear the emergency call button in general.
Does your mom or dad use social alarm? Do you think that he or she wears the emergency call button EVERY day? No one believes in this! Just imagin this situation: Your mom wants to use the restroom during the night. On this short way there is no need to wear the button. Right? In the dark, she slips of the carpet’s edge and falls. Most elderly people cannot stand up after a fall by themselves. She does not wear the emergency call button and thus cannot call for help. Your mom would wait for help until someone visits her. How long might that be?
From a relative’s viewpoint the ambiact stands for additional safety for their parents. Even if the emergency call button is refused or not worn, help will come before consequential damages of a fall may be expected. For the first time, even blind and demented people may use social alarm. ambiact stands for additional safety, your mom or dad will not refuse, since he or she does not need to do anything for that.
More than 10.000 social alarm users in Germany experience an accident every year without wearing their emergency call button. Using the ambiact, help is called even in these cases! Since most elderly people fall during night, help is often called within few hours!
Rather often, elderly people refuse to use assistive technologies. Most common reasons are the needs to either wear or handle those new devices. ambiact is often very well accepted, since it requires neither handling nor being worn. Using the ambiact, the elderly persons lives like before and ambiact waits in the background until help is required.
Alternatives to the ambiact, like movement sensors, are often perceived as surveillance by elderly people. Plug adapters are very well know, even by elderly people, and are therefore much easier accepted. Additionally, ambiact disappears behind connected appliances and is often not seen in everyday life.
Especially bling and demented people are excluded from the usage of social alarm since they cannot find or refuse to wear the emergency call button. Using the ambiact, these people can profit from the additionally safety of social alarm as well.
ambiact can be rented from your local social alarm provider. In most cases, it costs a maximum of 5 € / month. In case your social alarm provider does not yet offer the ambiact, we can provide you with a list of local providers.
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