Patent ID: 8107920

Claim:
A wearable apparatus comprising: a single short wireless transceiver means wherein said single short wireless transceiver establishes a connection with at least one remote terminal, wherein upon detection of a connection failure, said wearable apparatus can issue an audible alarm; a memory for storing at least one threshold and, at least one emergency phone number and, at least one emergency message; a speaker, at least one battery, a means for collecting sensor information, wherein the volume of said wearable apparatus is less than 150 cm3, wherein the emitted energy of said wearable apparatus is less than 100 milliwatts, wherein said wearable apparatus does not include any cellular network transceiver; wherein upon detection of sensor information not matching said at least one threshold, issuing an audible request through said speaker, waiting for a response selected from the group consisting of: a button push, an voice reply, a motion; wherein if a valid response is not received within a predetermined period of time, instructing said at least one remote terminal to dial at least one phone number selected from said at least one emergency phone number, detecting a line picked up, sending voice corresponding to said sensor information.