Special Functions; Looking After People Left At Home; Emergency Calls For Help; Remote Control By Telephone - Visonic POWERMAX User Manual

6. SPECIAL FUNCTIONS

6.1 Looking after People Left at Home

An important characteristic of the PowerMax is its ability to
function in a mode contrary to the usual behavior of an
alarm system. When the system is in the disarmed state
(or even when armed "HOME" with perimeter protection
only), it can keep track of in-house activity and will 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. It is only natural that even while
being asleep he will turn over in his bed from time to time.
He might also 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.
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 central monitoring station or to private
telephones designated by the installer.
IMPORTANT! In addition, you may provide the person
confined to interiors with a single-button transmitter for
distress situations - see Para. 6.2.

6.2 Emergency Calls for Help

Suppose the incapacitated person discussed in Para. 6.1
above has an accident such as falling in the bathtub
without being able to get up. It might take hours before the
"No Active" alert is sent out, but he (or she) must be
assisted much sooner.
Even though the odds for such an accident are not high, it
is advisable to provide the disabled person with a
miniature, single-button pendant-type or wristwatch-type
transmitter. Pressing the button on this transmitter will
cause the PowerMax to send an "emergency call" to the
central monitoring station or to private telephones
designated by the installer.
To make this possible, ask your installer to define one of
the 29 zones of the PowerMax as an emergency zone,
obtain for you one of the transmitters listed below and link
this transmitter's ID code to the emergency zone.
Compatible distress transmitters are (see Fig. 5):
MCT-201 - pendant-type
MCT-211 - wristwatch-type
MCT-101 - pocket-type
MCT-201
Figure 5. Single-button Emergency Transmitters
DE5450U
MCT-211
MCT-101

6.3 Remote Control by Telephone

The PowerMax is designed to respond to your commands
at "intimate" range (via the built-in keypad), at short range
(via your key-ring transmitter) and at long range (via the
public telephone network). Accessing the PowerMax from
a remote telephone will allow you to perform a large variety
of operations, as listed in sub-paragraph B below.
A. Establishing Telephone Communication with
your PowerMax Control Panel
When you are away from the protected premises, all you
need is a regular telephone set or a cellular telephone to
remain in control. Be advised, though, that every action
performed via a remote telephone requires a valid user
code - to prevent unauthorized access to the system.
To contact the PowerMax, proceed as follows:
• Dial the telephone number used by your system, allow
the telephone to ring 2 - 4 times and then hang up.
• Wait at least 12 seconds (but not more than 30 seconds)
after hanging up and redial the number. This time the
PowerMax will intercept your call - a shrill signal will
sound for 10 seconds. Press the [ ] key to stop the
signal.
Note: The PowerMax will respond in a similar way if you
dial just once and wait until the telephone rings 11 times.
• You may now command your system (see B below).
Attention! If you linger more than 50 seconds without
keying a command, the Powermax will disengage the line.
B. Executable Commands
Attention! For security reasons, every command in the
following list is preceded by an asterisk [ ] and a valid
user code [
].
Command
Disarming
Arming Home
Arming Home-Instant
Arming Away
Arming Away-Instant
Arming Away-Latchkey
Arming Away-Instant-Latchkey
Activating electrical devices
(1 - 7)
Deactivating electrical devices
(1 - 7)
Activating the auxiliary output
Deactivating the auxiliary output
Recorded message playback
Investigating system status
Quit (end communication)

6.4 Two-Way Voice Communication

After establishing communication with the PowerMax from
a remote telephone (see 6.3 A above), you may initiate a
conversation with the person left within the residence by
keying the following sequence on your telephone keypad:
[
[ ] ] [7] [3]
Keying Sequence
[ ] [
] [1]
[ ] [
] [2]
[ ] [
] [21]
[ ] [
] [3]
[ ] [
] [31]
[ ] [
] [4]
[ ] [ ] [41]
[ ] [
] [5] [device
No.] [1]
[ ] [
] [5] [device
No.] [0]
[ ] [
] [5] [8] [1]
[ ] [
] [5] [8] [0]
[ ] [
] [8]
[ ] [
] [9]
[ ] [9] [9]
( [
] is your user code).
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