Assistance

communication in
hospitals and
residential homes
for the elderly

primma basic
medium plus

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in hospitals and residential homes for the elderly

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Assistance communication
in hospitals and residential
homes for the elderly

EGi Secura "primma" is an alarm and intercommunication system to be used in public

installations and specially in hospitals and residential homes for the elderly.

As it is easy to operate and to install, Secura Primma is the most competitive and suitable
solution for hospitals and residential homes for the elderly which have up to 1020 rooms.
These rooms can be controlled from one or more places which, in turn, can be re-addressed
to a different control point (e.g. to the night duty post).
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EGi Secura "primma" is an alarm and intercommunication

system wich allows:

Assistance communication
in hospitals and residences
for the elderly,
up to 1020 rooms.

Alarm management either manual or

automatically
generated from rooms (bedrooms) or other places.

Call identification (room origin,

type of alarm, ...) and
assistance information.
In-the-room lighting signal indicating
alarm activation and its type:
presence, normal, urgency or emergency.

Bi-directional communication
between resident and control point.

Computer connection for querying,

on screen or printed report,
of historical alarm events ordered by type,
date or resident.

Easy bus type installation.

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Assistance communication
in hospitals and residential
homes for the elderly

Medical and health centres

Hospitals
Emergency centres
Specialized clinics
Spa

Residential homes for the elderly

Residences
Apartments
Day care centres
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5503
6

125
mm
70

Remote room terminal

5503
Equipped with
fast connectors to make
the installation easier
• Placed in the floor bus, this device connects 2 single rooms or a double room
(with 2 beds) to its nurse calling station.
• It is connected to the system by a 6-wire bus cable (power, data and audio)
EGi ref. 5504.
• To be fastened to DIN rail (7u. width) and placed in a surface mounting box
or flush mounting box.
• It is equiped with plug-in connectors to make the installation easier.
• It must be placed as close as possible to the room(s) to be controlled. It can
be concealed in a false ceiling as long as a solid structure it is used (never
loose-fitting or leant on the false ceiling).
• Available per room:
— Digital inputs: assistant care presence, normal call and urgency call
(through normally closed push-button activation).
— Digital outputs: presence and call signals.
— Configurable auxiliary port.
— Preamplified microphone and loudspeaker to allow bidirectional
conversation with the floor control unit.
• Up to 510 remote room terminals can be installed (which means up to 1020
single rooms).
• The terminal can be configurable as:
— MODE 1: installation for 2 single rooms with individual recognition of the
patient generating the call; auxiliary port available to be used as input/output,
or installation in a double room without individual recognition of the patient
generating the call; auxiliary port not available as it is being used by the
second bed of each room.
— MODE 2: installation in a double room, with individual recognition of the
patient generating the call; auxiliary port available to be used as input/output.
• Configurable auxiliary port can be set as input/output (the configuration for
both rooms is shared). When set as input, it could be used to generate either
normal or urgency calls as soon as the room will be provided with additional
warning elements (presence sensor, window opening sensor,...). When set as
output, it can be used to activate any device through a free-voltage contact.

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5303 248

7
mm
180

Nurse calling station

• It allows to receive calls from the assigned rooms as well as establish an audio
communication with them.
• It has been thought as an independent unit for each floor of a building so that
it can answer the calls received from that floor.
• All the calls from any floor can be diverted from its assigned calling station
to the designated main nurse calling station, so that any call from any room
can be answered in only one place. IT IS RECOMMENDED to have a place
where a main nurse calling station can supervise the good working order of
the system.
5303 • The main nurse calling station displays all the events permanently but it will
not take part on a room alarm unless the calls from that floor are diverted.
• Any nurse calling station can be configurated as main, but there can only be
one.
• The nurse calling station consists of 2 devices:
— a customized telephone terminal
— a console with display screen, desk microphone and loudspeaker.
• Apart from answering the calls from the residents, it can establish a conversation
with the rooms by simply dialing the room number on the telephone keyboard.
• There are two ways of answering a call:
— by using the console microphone and loudspeaker (halfduplex conversation
mode), by pressing and releasing the speaking push-button
— by picking-up the handset once the call is selected on the console (private
and full-duplex conversation mode).
A nurse calling station contains: • The unit has 2 connectors:
— A customized telephone — RJ12 to be connected to the floor interface
terminal.
— A nurse console with — RJ45 to connect the customized telephone terminal (included).
display, gooseneck There are 2 potentiometers available to adjust the loudspeaker volume level
microphone and and the micro-loudspeaker volume level of the handset.
loudspeaker. • Maximum 32 nurse calling stations per installation.

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5803 49
mm
71

Floor interface
• Floor interface is the device that links the floor bus into the inter-floor bus. In
the same way, it links a group of remote room terminals into its corresponding
nurse calling station. Even more, any call from a room can be diverted to the
main nurse calling station whenever its nurse calling station is out of order.
• The following connections are allowed:
— to the nurse calling station through a flexible cable (included) with RJ12
connectors at both ends
— to floor bus and inter-floor bus through terminal blocks connections (*),
— to the computer through the interface 5805 with a flexible cable with RJ12
connectors at both ends.
• VERY IMPORTANT: connection between the floor interface and the inter-floor
5803 bus will always be made through the bus signal generator 5804 (a 100x100
mm junction box is recommended). “DO NOT CONNECT THE FLOOR
INTERFACE DIRECTLY TO THE INTER-FLOOR BUS”

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5805
8

85
mm
90

PC interface module
• PC interface module is presented in a casing to be placed on a surface close
to the computer. It allows to connect the PC to the field bus to carry out the
following tasks:
— bus supervision, with a bus logger
— historical events storing, for user querying on a database
• Connection between PC interface module (5805) and PC is made through a
RS232 cord (DB9 male - DB9 female).
• Connection between PC interface module (5805) and floor interface (5803) can
be made:
5805
— through a flexible cable (RJ12 at both ends) RECOMMENDED.
— through 4-pole terminal block, what would make possible the connection
to the bus wires directly (only exceptional cases).
• The interface has 2 leds which indicate the data transmission activity along
the field bus.
• A CD-ROM with the software to display and query the historical event database
is provided.
This software allows to query historical alarm events occured in the system,
and to obtain both screen or printed reports ordered by any of these criteria:
— type of call
— resident
— date/time
• Minimum system requirements: Pentium II processor or equivalent, 20 Mbyte
HD, 64 Mbyte RAM and operative system MS Windows 98.

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5804 30
mm
95

BUS signal generator

• Bus signal generator is used to restore the bus signal voltage level.
• It must be placed between the floor bus and the inter-floor bus.
• With the bus signal generator we get:
— power supply isolation,
— restore digital data voltage level,
— restore audio signal.
5804 • It incorporates a double group of terminal blocks for the connection of incoming
bus wires (from inter-floor bus) and outgoing bus wires (to the floor interface)
respectively.
• It is essential to put a bus signal generator in the following circumstances:
— between the inter-floor bus and the floor interface,
— when there are 6 or more branch lines in a floor bus,
— over 100 m or more on any bus (floor bus or inter-floor bus),
— when using K13G.1 modules to isolate power supply.

Cable with colour wires

5504 5504.1
Twisted cable EGi ref. 5504, 6 conductors Same characteristics as 5504, but with cover.
• Cable 5504 meets intrinsic safety rules: no flame
5504 750 V isolation 5504.1. 750 V isolation spread (UNE EN 50265), no fire spread (UNE EN
50266), low emission of toxic and halogen gas (UNE
EN 50267), low fumes emission (UNE EN 50268).
• 750 V isolation.

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Bathroom pull-cord wall unit
• To be installed in a 60 mm standard box, it can combine with other series of
electrical switchgear.
• It works together with the bathroom pull-cord EGi 5701.

5701
Bathroom pull-cord
5201
• Ergonomic design.
• It incorporates a 2m cord with anti-strangling system.
5701 • Fluorescent ring to facilitate visibility in the dark.
• To connect to EGi 5201.
• Acoustic alarm when pulling the cord.

5103
Bedside push-button wall unit
• To be installed in a 60 mm standard box, it can combine with other series of
electrical switchgear.
• It works together with the bedside push-button EGi 5202.
• Jack connector reduces accidental pull-off. In this case, an alarm is generated.

5103
5202
Bedside push-button
5202 • Ergonomic design.
• Fluorescent ring to facilitate visibility in the dark.
• To connect to EGi 5103.
• Acoustic alarm when pushing the button.
• It incorporates anti-strangling system.

5204
Nurse presence push-button
• To be installed in a 60 mm standard box, it can combine with other series of
electrical switchgear.
• When pushed, it allows to notify nurse presence in the patient’s room.
5204

5104
Microphone + preamplifier
• To be installed in a 60 mm standard box, it can combine with other series of
electrical switchgear.
• It works together with the loudspeaker G26U/16 or other EGi 16 loudspeakers.
• It allows hands-free conversation between the user and care assistants.

5104 G26U/16
Loudspeaker 2 W 16 W
• 2" wall loudspeaker for 60 mm mounting box. Wide band. 16 impedance.

520607.12
LED corridor lights
• Allow the visual information about the type of call generated in one room.
• Can be installed in standard 60 mm flush-mount box.
G26U/16
• LED technology to reduce consumption and maintenance costs.
• Green and red colour.
• White coloured when in "off" mode and red or green coloured when activated.
This makes it easy to distinguish when the system is activated, while allowing
easy integration into the hospital decor.

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The installation is based on the use of a field bus of 6-wire cable (power floor buses through bus signal generators. One or more 15 Vdc power
supply, digital data and audio). supply are needed depending on the number of connected devices.

Bus topology is described on the image below. Two bus levels are
considered: floor bus and inter-floor bus. Floor bus gathers remote room Each remote room terminal can control two single rooms or a double
terminals of this floor and its nurse calling station; inter-floor bus gathers room. It incorporates input and output ports for controlling alarm activation.

"N" Floor

2nd Floor

1st Floor

Hall/Reception
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Secura “primma” compatibility Field bus must have a load of 120 ohm on all its ends (end-of-line). This
Secura Primma is a system based on a field bus and thus incompatible load is available on all devices (remote room terminal, nurse calling station,
with Secura Basic, Medium and Plus, as these systems are based on bus signal generator, PC interface and floor interface) through a jumper.
telephone lines. This end-of-line is used to avoid digital data reflection although this should
not bother due to the low rate transmission speed (20 Kbits/sec).
Field BUS
Both the inter-floor bus and the floor bus use the same field bus, which
is made up of: For each floor, bus end-of-line will be the last remote room terminal along
• Power supply 15 Vdc. the floor bus (or other ends where there is no bus continuity). For the inter-
• Audio CR (audio from nurse calling station to remote room terminal). floor bus, the end-of-line will be the first nurse calling station (or nurse
• Audio RC (audio from remote room terminal to nurse calling station). calling station at one end) and the last bus signal generator.
• Ground (audio and power supply).
• Digital data CANL channel. BUS limitations
• Digital data CANH channel. The system identifies a maximum of 510 remote room terminals (510
double rooms or 1020 single rooms).
Power supply is 15 V= direct current and stabilized.

Both audio channels, CR and RC, are 3 Vpp over direct current voltage The bus distance limit depends on:
of 7.5 V=. • The maximum number of devices due to the data channel limit (up
to 1000 m. branch).
Digital data are based on standard BUS CAN 2B® and operates at 20 • The maximum number of devices due to the audio channel limit (up
Kbits/sec, over 2-wire twisted cable (included in EGi cable ref. 5504). to 500 m. branch).
Wire section are as follows:
• The maximum number of devices due to the power supply capacity.
• Power supply: 15 V= ; 1 mm2.
• Audio CR: 0.5 mm2.
There is no problem on the two first cases as long as a bus signal generator
• Audio RC: 0.5 mm2.
5804 is used along the bus. The most restrictive is the third one, as it is
• Ground: 1.5 mm2.
determined by the consumption of the room control units (330 mA max.),
• Digital data CANL channel: 0.5 mm2.
maximum drop in voltage permitted (2.5 volts) and the maximum current
• Digital data CANH channel: 0.5 mm2.
intensity through the cable section (1mm2). Power supply module K13G.1
Cable 5504 meets intrinsic safety rules: 750 V isolation, no flame spread provides with a maximum current of 5 A. If several K13G.1 are used, 15
(UNE EN 50265), no fire spread (UNE EN 50266), low emission of toxic Vdc outputs will not be connected in paralel to avoid more than 8A supply
and halogen gas (UNE EN 50267), low fumes emission (UNE EN 50268). (maximum permitted through 1 mm2).
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