An 80-year woman who fell and lost consciousness in her apartment in Haidhausen, Munich has been prevented from dying or developing serious complications with the aid of her Apple watch.
The Apple Watch series 4 features a fall detector that can detect when the wearer takes a hard fall. When that happens, the device taps the user’s wrist and sounds an alarm in an attempt to catch the attention of a bystander.
If the timepiece senses that the owner of the device is moving, it will give him or her the option to dismiss the alert or contact 9-1-1 by using the digital crown. If there is no movement for about a minute, a call to Emergency Services will be placed automatically. Messages are then sent to the user’s emergency contacts informing them about the fall and where it took place.
So when the lady fell and was unable to move, an automatic call was placed to Emergency Services through her smart Apple watch. The call was received by a dispatcher and passed along the news that someone had fallen; it also relayed the location of the victim.
When the ambulance arrived, the crew could not open the door. So the fire department was dispatched to knock it down.
Meanwhile, the woman’s son also received an alert sent from his mom’s watch, and he arrived in time to see her being treated by the ambulance crew.
Besides the fall detector, the Apple Watch series 4 has important health-related features like a heart rate monitor and an electrocardiogram (ECG). The ECG looks for abnormal heart rhythms and can provide an early warning of atrial fibrillation (AFib). The latter can lead to blood clots, strokes and heart disease.
Story Credit: PhoneArena.