Panic Button

I have a FreePBX setup for my parents. As they are elderly, (95 & 86), I would like to be able to set up a “Panic Button” in each room, that would dial my phone and based on the CID I would know it was an emergency. What I would like is a stand alone button, much like in an alarm system, rather than programming a button on a phone. That way, in an emergency there would be no confusion. Is something like this possible? Are such buttons commercially available?

Many thanks,
Eric

http://cyberdata.net/products/voip/digitalanalog/callbutton/index.html Something like this would be ideal but not cheap.

A better idea may be to use something like https://bt.tn/ with IFTTT or you could have it send a message to the PBX and originate a call

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Interestingly enough, I too have an elderly grandmother who needs something like that…I like https://bt.tn … that seems like an awesome solution.

Wow that is an awesome product! Now I need to find out how much!? Just for a gimmick I guess!

This looks like just what I need. I will check it out and post my results.

Thanks!

I finally got around to trying this, https://bt.tn/ It is awsome!! Thanks.

Can you take some photos of it, and post them here? I’m interested!

We have used these in this type of situation http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/1884499.pdf

@RichE, so you install a button on the input trigger then dial out to an SMS centre?

Adam

You can do or get the unit to dial up to 4 preset numbers and play a recorded message depending on which in put is triggered

For less then $ 75 hardware.
I have made a working setup of a panic button system with a Raspberry Pi 2 and a Piface Digital 2 i/0 board.
The Piface gives you 8 inputs.
Installed asterisk 13 on the Pi2 for the calls.
On the python listener script to the inputs I have made a call scripts which moves an call file to the /var/lib/asterisk/outgoing directory which does a Playback of a soundfile after the call is answered.

Regards
Geert

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