Bluetooth Emergency Pendant (BL-3)
BL-3 is a Bluetooth emergency pendant. It can be used to summon help in case of an emergency with one button press. When its button is pressed, BL-3 utilizes the Bluetooth connection with the smartphone app to immediately report an alarm and user’s location. It also functions to count the steps when this function is enabled.
LED Indicator (Blue and Red LED)
Blue LED flashes 4 times
When an emergency alarm or a Bluetooth pairing request is sent.
Blue LED flashes twice
When Bluetooth unpairing request is sent.
Red LED flashes once rapidly every 30 seconds
When BL-3 is out of the smartphone app’s range.
In case of low battery, red LED will flash above LED events instead of blue LED.
Active Button
When the BL-3 is paired with the smartphone via Bluetooth connection, press the active button once to activate an emergency alarm.
Press the active button once to send a Bluetooth pairing request.
Press and hold the active button for 10 seconds to send a Bluetooth unpairing request.
Battery
BL-3 uses one CR2032 3V Lithium battery as its power source.
After BL-3 is paired with the smartphone, it will send the battery percentage to the smartphone every 10 minutes.
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Use a coin to unlock and remove the battery cover from the back of the pendant by turning the mark on the cover anti-clockwise from Lock position to Open position.
Insert the battery with the unmarked (negative) side facing down.
Use a coin to lock the battery cover back onto the back of the pendant by turning the mark on the cover clockwise from Open position to Lock position. Make sure the baseline printed on the back of the pendant is horizontally aligned with 2 marks of lock positions.
Bluetooth (BLE) Compatibility
Care Alert APP is used for Bluetooth pairing the BL-3 with the smartphone.
Please go to APP store or Google Play and search Care Alert to download the application.
To pair the BL-3 with the smartphone:
Go to the smartphone’s Settings > Bluetooth to check if the BLE connection is enabled.
Open the Care Alert APP on the smartphone, and tab First Time Registration to register. Ensure BL-3’s MAC address has already been added to the Home Portal Server Backend before you move on to the following steps.
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In the following screen, enter Username, Password, Email and MAC/MEI, and tap Connect.
Sign in the Care Alert APP by entering the registered Username and Password.
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Tap the BL-3 under Available Devices to pair the BL-3 with the smartphone, tap Pair for Bluetooth Pairing Request.
Go to the smartphone’s Settings > Bluetooth to check if the BL-3 has been connected properly.
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To unpair the BL-3 from the smartphone:
Tap the paired BL-3 under Paired Devices, and tap Remove in the next screen.
Press and hold the BL-3 active button for 10 seconds to send a Bluetooth unpairing request. The BL-3
will flash twice when the unpairing request is sent.
<NOTE>
If you wish to re-pair BL-3, please follow the steps above to remove it from the previously paired smartphone, and factory reset BL-3 by pressing and holding the active button for 10 seconds.
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Operation
When the active button is pressed, BL-3 utilizes the Bluetooth connection with the smartphone app to immediately report an alarm and user's location. In addition, it will make a VOIP call (currently unavailable), or make an emergency call to the emergency contact, or send SCAIP report to server depending on the specified reporting method (on the Reporting page.
Alarm Event with Location VOIP Call Emergency Call
<NOTE>
The smartphone’s Bluetooth function and GPS location function need to be turned ON, the Care
Alert app shall be kept alive in the background, so that the BL-3 device can communicate with the Care Alert app, and the app can send alert with the location coordinates and report when the BL-3 active button is pressed.
At least one dealer manager or operator has to log into Care Alert Backend and stay logged in to answer the VOIP help call.
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One-Click Lanyard / Wristband Swtich
The Transmitter can be worn as a Pendant with lanyard or a Wrist Watch with wrist band. Please refer to instructions below to switch between wearing a Pendant or as a wrist watch.
Step 1. Push the FRONT of the transmitter to take it off from the lanyard frame.
Step 2. Remove the transmitter.
Step 3. Push the transmitter into the wristband frame from the BACK side until you hear a click sound. All done!
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Wearing the Emergency Pendant as Wrist Watch
Step 1. Slide the top part of the wristband through the hole at the end of the bottom part of the wristband.
Step 2. Push the protruding part on the inner wristband into right hole for your wrist size.
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Installing / Changing battery
Tap the Settings icon and then Bluetooth Pendants to enter pairing screen.
Tap the Add icon to automatically search for available BL-3s. If no BL-3s have been searched, press the BL-3 active button once to send a Bluetooth pairing request.
Go to the smartphone’s Settings > Bluetooth to forget the BL-3 by tapping first the Information icon, then Forget This Device in the next screen.
