Emergency Medical Alarm Systems originated and were developed during the early seventies in Germany by “Wilhelm Horman”. Wilhelm Horman aim in developing broad organizations for ambulatory and non-ambulatory care for the old, ailing, those who live unaccompanied and disabled individuals. Wilhelm Horman’s idea of “medical alarm systems” were seen as somewhat extensive which includes the transmission of the medical data and social communication. Emergency medical alarm systems are not limited for individual who are old. The technical execution was accomplished with the aid of “AEG – Telefunken Backnang GmbH”. The emergency medical alarm systems were then introduced to the world in the early eighties.
Emergency medical alarm systems were then added with an assortment of accessories like smoke detectors, motion detectors and fall sensors. A flood of gadgets that can be linked over analog or digital “ISDN” connections are very much available these days.