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First Independent Testing of BS8521 Telecare Protocol

2 June 2009

We are pleased to announce that Tynetec and Jontek have become the first two companies to undertake successful independent testing of the newly approved BS8521 Telecare communication protocol at the BT test facility at Martlesham in Suffolk.

Tynetec’s SayPhone v2, SayPhone 21 and Advent xt system were tested with Jontek’s Answer-link 3G control centre under the supervision of a BT engineer.

The importance of the new BS8521 standard has been highlighted by the TSA, as stated in the recent announcement:

“We are pleased to announce the publication of BS8521 which has been developed over many years with the facilitation of the TSA and the major equipment suppliers working together to achieve this objective.

The major equipment suppliers have all committed in advance to implement the standard in both remote control and alarm receiving centre equipment following publication of the standard.

This event means that it should be possible for all service providers to procure equipment which has been designed to work with next generation networks such as BT 21CN before the implementation of the new network across the UK.

BS8521 offers for the first time the promise of improved interoperability of remote controllers supplied by different manufacturers, better identification and localisation of alarms and events and a solution which is resilient in the telecommunications network environment post 2010.”