Patent ID: 6870906

Claim:
An emergency call system comprising: a data bus that receives alarm signals for a premises having a plurality of resident occupied residences from which alarm signals may generate and be passed through; a bus controller operatively connected to said data bus for controlling access of data relating to alarm signals generating from different resident occupied residences on the data bus for further processing of the data relating to the alarm signals and each residence on the premises including at least a wireless device, a wired station and/or sensor or a telephone, each for generating alarm signals, and further comprising at least one of; a wireless device module operatively connected to said data bus for receiving and passing alarm signals onto the data bus from a premises based wireless subsystem having at least one wireless receiver operatively connected to said wireless device module that receives wireless alarm signals from wireless devices; a direct connect module operatively connected to said data bus for receiving and passing alarm signals onto the data bus from a premises based direct connect subsystem having wired stations and/or sensors wired to said direct connect module, said wired stations and/or sensors generating alarm signals thereto; and a telephone module operatively connected to said data bus and a telephone network for receiving and passing alarm signals onto said data bus and/or to a wireless staff phone from a premises based telephone that is operatively connected to said telephone network such as to forward alarm signals from said telephone through said telephone network and to said telephone module.