File 003 · AgeTech
Record 001 · Sensing · 1974
74.01.NPhilips Lifeline
Philips Lifeline
“The pendant that made emergency response a household object.”
Help at the press of a button.
Lifeline put a help button on a necklace and wired it to a 24-hour response center. It invented the personal emergency response category that every later fall detector still answers to.
Opened aging-in-place safety as a product, not a nursing-home feature.
Filed notes
- In-home communicator + wearable help button
- 24-hour monitoring center
- Later AutoAlert fall detection
Units. Millions of subscribers across the PERS category it defined.
SIC
3669
Communications Equipment, NEC
NAICS
334290
Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing
