We're pleased to announce that Richard Hosier, Head of Product Development for Everon UK, has been appointed as a BSI Committee Member to help improve national quality standards across the industry.
The British Standards Institute (BSI), the UK's National Standards Body, oversees the national standards-making process and represents the UK in European and international standards organisations like CEN, CENELEC, ISO, and IEC.
In his new role, Richard will be part of the BSI panel GW/1/12/3, contributing to the revision of BS 8521-2:2020, which focuses on social alarm system signalling protocols.
This quality standard is essential to ensuring that social alarm systems from different manufacturers exchange information and controls with alarm receiving centres in a compatible manner.
BS 8521 [LW1] specifies a protocol for point-to-point transmission of alarms, faults, control signals and communications monitoring to allow for communication of alarm information, system information, speech control functions, equipment control systems and streaming media.
Richard will be focused on a specific area of this standard (BS 8521 – 2:2020) which is the digital communications protocol dealing with specialised group living environments. This is designed to support multiple users using a shared social alarm infrastructure.
This area is an essential part of the switchover in the UK’s social care alarm industry from analogue to digital systems with the revisions to the protocol considering the fundamental differences between traditional analogue and IP-based technology.
“I’m looking forward to bringing my experience and that of Everon across the business to setting the industry standard that will ensure the quality of service to clients across health, housing and social care is maintained as we transition to a digital future,” Richard said.
