Life button

As Button of Life works

The equipment (a bracelet on a wrist, a Coulomb on a neck, phone) equipped with the button, clicking which is a signal that the person needs the help, is provided to the user. Professional physicians round the clock accept all signals arriving from mobile or home devices.

At receipt of a signal of SOS or operation of the sensor of falling, the operator checks the call reason, contacts neighbors, relatives (contacts are specified in advance by the client) and also calls the Ambulance, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and other services, when necessary.

For emergencies there is a technology of monitoring of falling, lack of activity of the patient, a system automatically signals about a problem to the professional operator in medical Call Center and notifies relatives and the attending physician. The business model is based on a monthly subscription fee.

[1]The Life Button project is developed within legal entity A-Klever LLC.

"In fact "The life button" opens the direction, new to the country, – medical signaling which is a part of the huge world industry - mobile monitoring of health (mobile health). In big cities there is no opportunity to often visit elderly relatives, but people worry for the family. The round will go including for start and development of the convenient mobile application allowing relatives to be aware always as their relatives feel. Earlier IT Group thanks to which the project managed to reach new level invested in the project: cooperation with regional services of social security and other began", - Shteygervald Maxim, the investment director of Internet Initiatives Development Fund told.

"The life button" – the Russia's first system of an emergency call of the help allowing pensioners and disabled people a one click of the SOS button on the specialized device to contact the round-the-clock medical call center and to get the operational help and support when there are no relatives nearby. Today in Russia more than 18 million elderly people from whom about 6 million, according to the statistics, will need the emergency help in 2014 (over 2 million from them will not be able to call independently to the aid); over 1.5 million people will forget a home address and will get home with big difficulties.

In case of need it is enough to help to press the SOS button of the device which always is with the person (the disturbing button on the mobile phone, function of blind set is located on a neck in the form of a Coulomb, on a wrist, on a belt), and the signal will instantly come to the Center of the help. The operator will determine the reason of a call by symptoms and if necessary will contact relatives and/or neighbors and also will call the ambulance, the militia, the Ministry of Emergency Situations. Medical information on users of service is stored in the Center of the help (key diseases, portability of drugs, allergens and td.) that considerably increases efficiency of assistance.

In addition the device can include the falling sensor which will send a signal of need of the help if the person cannot independently press the SOS button. Also there are devices with position fix function.