Rudersdal Kommune: staff safety, and an alarm that says which building to run to

Care and social services run across several buildings on one site, staffed thinly and often by one person at a time. When something goes wrong, knowing that an alarm has been raised is only half an answer. The other half — which building, which floor, which room — is the half that decides how long it takes somebody to arrive.

Outdoor GPS does not solve that. A position accurate to a few metres in open air tells you very little once the person is inside one of four buildings standing next to each other.

The standalone GPS button, carried by staff for their own safety. It works on its own mobile connection, so it does not depend on a personal phone being present, charged or unlocked, and pressing it opens two-way voice through the device itself.

The municipality also has its fire alarm connected to the same system, so one channel carries both rather than staff having to learn two.

Advanced indoor positioning and alerting was developed specifically for Rudersdal. When an alarm is raised in, say, house 1, every other unit immediately announces "alarm activated in house 1".

The point is not the technology, it is the sentence. Everyone who hears it knows where to run without opening an app, reading a map or asking anyone. That is the difference between an alarm that has been received and an alarm that has been answered.

We publish what is deployed, not response-time statistics. There is no controlled before/after study behind this page, and we will not put numbers on it until we can show where they came from.

ProTechMe is not a monitoring centre and does not dispatch emergency services on a customer’s behalf. In this deployment the responders are the municipality’s own staff.