Record 001 · Sensing · 1974
50%74.01.N
Philips Lifeline
Philips Lifeline
“The pendant that made emergency response a household object.”
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.
Millions of subscribers across the PERS category it defined.
- In-home communicator + wearable help button
- 24-hour monitoring center
- Later AutoAlert fall detection
Help at the press of a button.
