No Landline Needed

Not having a landline is fairly common in many households these days. A lot of people have given up their landline in favour of only having a mobile phone. Recent studies show that nearly one in four households does not have a landline. Of the houses that do have a landline, 25% of them do not have a handset.

Alarms for the elderly have traditionally operated using the phone line in a person’s home. An alarm base unit would plug into the phone socket in the hallway downstairs, and the alarm user would wear a pendant or a wristband button. This button was wireless. When pressed, it would trigger the base unit from within the home and garden. If they had a fall, or got into any difficulty, they would press the button and the base unit would dial out through the phone line to call for help. So what do people do when they want an alarm but they do not have a landline?

SureSafe has solutions that don’t need a landline. SureSafe’s solutions use either the internet that is currently set up in the home, or use mobile phone technology to be able to call for help when needed. You can choose the product that suits your needs and circumstances best.

With alarms that use the internet in the home, this is done either by plugging the alarm into the internet router, or connecting it to the Wi-Fi. This type of alarm is known as a digital alarm, because it does not need a phoneline to operate. SureSafe's market leading digital alarm is called the SureSafe Guardian and it can call up to 5 telephone numbers of family and friends when the wristband or pendant help button is pressed. The alarm also comes with a family & friends app and lots of additional features including daily 'I'm OK' welfare checks, activity monitoring including alerts if the alarm user is not out of bed by a certain time, alerts for no-activity, home temperature checks, medication reminders, unusual night-time activity, and a whole host of more features.

Where mobile phone technology is used in the no-landline alarm, the pendant or smartwatch is the entire alarm itself, there is no base unit. It has a mobile phone SIM card inside, a speaker and microphone, and all the necessary technology to be able to get help when needed. The alarm also has GPS technology built into it so that the alarm can tell the respondent exactly where you are, whether you are at home or out and about. This means it also gets you help wherever you are.

Landlines are expensive as well. Having a SureSafe alarm without a landline means you don’t have to organise the installation of a new phone to get the protection you need. An alarm without a landline also means you’re not spending money paying for a home telephone you won’t use and don’t need. It is often cheaper to have a no landline alarm than it is to have a normal BT phone line.

SureSafe’s no landline alarms are also very popular with people who live in caravans or mobile homes, in annexes to the main home, and in ‘granny flats’. These type of homes often do not have a landline or a telephone socket, so a SureSafe alarm is the perfect solution here.