For many children, who care about their elderly parents’ happiness, it is very important to maintain them at their house, while assuring their security. With age, the elderly run many risks, because they loose their memory, they are not stable on their legs anymore.

For example, they can fall down in their apartment, maybe quite badly, and not be able to get up again, far from the telephone to ask for help. If they have no neighbour to call through the walls, God only knows when they will manage to get help.

Thanks to X10, one solution exists to this problem : just by pressing the X10 little key fob, one can send a pre-recorded message asking for help to 4 persons, via the X10 security console. For more peace of mind, this key fob can be carried around on a necklace, so that the person will wear it during the whole day, because the risk of falling are numerous in a house : in the bathroom, in the stairs…

But dangers can also come from forgetfullness : for example, on leaving her house, your elderly mother may easily forget to switch off the electric iron or the electric cooker. It is possible to switch off these appliances thanks to the Security Console, the computer interface, and several lamps / appliances modules. Plug all the appliances you wish to switch off automatically in a lamp / appliance module, and insert the whole into any standard socket. Thanks to the Active home software, create a macro, which will switch off all the appliances modules together, and give the macro the house and unit code "B2 off". Transfer your setting into the Computer Interface, disconnect it from your PC and replug it into any convenient socket of your elderly parent’s house. When it is armed away, the security console (set to A1) will send the message "B2 off" through all the mains to the Computer Interface which will then transmit the macro, making the lights, the electric cooker, iron and heaters switch off. It is even possible to add the automatic clothing of the main entrance door, thanks to an electric closer & lock linked to a UM 7206 Universal Module.

When coming back to home, on disarming the security console from the outside thanks to the key fob, the inhabitant can launch a macro, which will switch on the light of the corridor and all the heaters in the house.

Of course, X10 can bring a lot of comfort by automating tiring tasks such as closing of the roller shutters. When going to bed, your elderly parent will press his bedside security remote, and while arming his security console, all the shutters will get down, all the lights will be switched off. The opposite will happen in the morning when the elderly person will get up and disarm her security console.

Through this example, one has the proof that X10 can bring much comfort to people whose mobility is reduced as well as a lot of peace of mind to their parents.