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Thanks for coming back.
Yes earlier this year I had reason to get involved with sorting the home of an elderly person ready for their return to the property. Sadly they didn't make it. RIP Dorothy.
However during the various conversations with providers of equipment for providing emergency calls etc I became aware of these very issues. To be fair the equipment suppliers came to conclusion that a calling system using the mobile phone network was the way to go. But of course before anyone gets to the point that an event becomes an emergency they often just pick up the phone to speak to someone. And here it could well be that they have suffered a power cut so reach for the phone to tell someone they've had a power cut. It could even be a circuit breaker in their own premises causing the loss of power. If they're on DV then it's not going to work.
We, my good friend and I, discussed this and came to the conclusion that when Dorothy came home and when DV was installed we would buy her a UPS (uninterrupible power supply) to give her a few hours power back up for her router and phone to give her peace of mind and security.
However even this is not as simple as it seems. Master socket just inside the front door. Router goes into that and UPS powers the router all good. But her lounge and bedroom are quite some distance away and she needs a phone close by and so as we assumed her present internal hard wiring would go dead the only thing we thought we could do was plug an extension cable into the router and trail this through the flat to where she needed the phone. So lots of cable clips needed because she would have used a walking frame and we had already tidied away all loose leads as instructed.
We considered a dect system. So base station plugged into the router and UPS, again all good. But second "slave" unit would need mains to keep it charged in a power cut and so a second UPS would have to be bought. And of course DECT phones have batteries as do the UPS all of which need monitoring and replacing.
While I personally have no problem with DV, well in truth I'm puzzled as to why and what advantage it's going to give us, so the audio quality is going to be better, so what, who cares, I'm talking to someone I don't need it in high fidelity.... I am very concerned for the elderly, vulnerable and those by reason of capacity can only do the most basic of things.
Hence, before all my ramblings here, I asked whether the existing internal telephone system could be plugged into the router and somewhere else on that internal system a standard corded phone be plugged in and used and so saving all the issues I outlined above.
It seems to me that all that was (is?) required is a simple connector box with a phone lead. Plug the lead into the router and disconnect the internal phone system from the master socket and reconnect to this box. Hey presto you can then use any internal extension as before and for the vulnerable supply them with a UPS for the router and everyone is happy, safe and secure.
Sorry for the ramblings.
John
