Special Applications And Functions; Looking After People Left At Home; Acknowledging "Low Battery" Condition In Keyfobs - Visonic POWERMASTER-10 User Manual

6. Special Applications and Functions

Looking after People Left at Home

In addition to acting as an alarm system, the
PowerMaster-10 can also be used to monitor the
movement of people at home when the system is in
the disarmed state (or even when armed "HOME"
with perimeter protection only), and report lack of
motion in interior zones if there is no detection of
motion within predetermined time limits.
To use this characteristic, you must ask your installer
to program a specific time limit beyond which lack of
motion will be reported as a "not active" alert.
To make things clear, let us assume that an elderly,
sick or handicapped person is left unattended in a
protected site. This person, disabled or sick as he
may be, will not stay entirely still for hours and is
expected to wander into the kitchen to eat or drink, or
to the bathroom for other necessities. Upon doing so,
the bedroom, bathroom and kitchen motion detectors
will detect his movement.
Important!
To enable the motion detectors to function during the
disarmed state, all motion detectors must be
configured by the installer to detect activity during
disarmed state (i.e. "DISARM Activity" recommended
setting ""YES + 5m delay").
If, for example, the "lack of motion" time limit is set by
your installer to 6 hours, a virtual 6-hour clock will
carry out a 6-hour "countdown".
If motion is detected within the 6-hour time frame, the
countdown will restart from the beginning (the virtual
6-hour clock will be "reset") and no alert message will
be sent out.
If no motion is detected within the 6-hour time frame in
any interior zone, the control panel will send a "not-
active" alert message to the monitoring station or to
private telephones designated by the installer.
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SPECIAL APPLICATIONS AND FUNCTIONS
Acknowledging
condition in Keyfobs
Some regulations and institutions require the user to
acknowledge when the keyfob enters the "low
battery" condition. In such cases the installer will
program the system to operate as follows:
If you try to disarm the system with a keyfob whose
battery voltage is low, a protest beep will be heard for
15 seconds. During this period you should press again
the disarm button of the keyfob or control panel (for the
control panel, a user code is required) to disarm the
system. If you perform this action during the 15 seconds
period, a Low Bat acknowledge message will be stored
in the event log.
If the disarm button is not pressed again during the
15 seconds period you will not be able to rearm the
system unless you perform either one of the
following actions:
A. Press AWAY twice to arm the system.
B. Press AWAY and then press disarm button.
Performing either of these two actions will also store
the acknowledge message in the event log.
"low battery"
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