Today’s personal emergency response systems (PERS) technologies are evolving to meet the new needs of customer markets, and dovetail nicely into full security and home automation solutions. The PERS industry is experiencing an overhaul in technologies and form factors, and is even moving out of the home and into the workplace where commercial opportunities are growing. Corporations around the globe with “lone workers” are learning about the protection that today’s new PERS and mobile PERS (mPERS) units provide, and the potential is huge.
“Seniors are not the only ones that can benefit from today’s systems, nor should they. Think about it: PERS means personal emergency response systems. Personal emergencies can happen to anyone,” emphasizes Christopher Baskin, chief executive officer (CEO) of American Two-Way, North Hollywood, Calif., a wholesale monitoring company. “Designed to protect children, lone workers, seniors and beyond, the mPERS market especially is opening a much larger market,” he shares.