http://escudo.red/en/how-it-works/Recent content in How it works on EscudoHugoen-GBhttp://escudo.red/en/how-it-works/the-red-escudo/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000http://escudo.red/en/how-it-works/the-red-escudo/<h1 id="the-red-escudo">The Red Escudo<a class="anchor" href="#the-red-escudo">#</a></h1> <p>The network is the people. Everything else — the button, the signs, the software — is scaffolding around a list of neighbours who said yes in advance.</p> <p><strong>Yes, wake me. Yes, I&rsquo;ll go if I can.</strong></p> <p>That&rsquo;s the whole commitment, and it&rsquo;s deliberately small. A member is not on duty, not rostered, and not obliged to answer any particular alert. Declining is a normal answer; the network works because <em>someone</em> answers, not because everyone does.</p>http://escudo.red/en/how-it-works/how-an-alert-flows/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000http://escudo.red/en/how-it-works/how-an-alert-flows/<h1 id="how-an-alert-flows">How an alert flows<a class="anchor" href="#how-an-alert-flows">#</a></h1> <p>From the moment something goes wrong to the moment it&rsquo;s closed off. The design goal is one number: <strong>how long until the first neighbour is at the door.</strong></p> <figure class="escudo-diagram"> <img src="http://escudo.red/img/diagrams/en/alert-flow-1200.png" alt="The six steps: raise it, it arrives, answer, go, stand down, close it off."> </figure> <h2 id="1-raise-it">1. Raise it<a class="anchor" href="#1-raise-it">#</a></h2> <p>Whoever notices presses the button — the person in trouble, a neighbour, a passer-by, a family member on the phone from Madrid. It asks one question, <em>what kind</em>, and offers four answers: <a href="http://escudo.red/en/how-it-works/types-of-emergency/">fire, medical, crime, emergency</a>. A <a href="http://escudo.red/en/technology/devices/">registered device</a> skips even that: one press, alert sent.</p>http://escudo.red/en/how-it-works/types-of-emergency/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000http://escudo.red/en/how-it-works/types-of-emergency/<h1 id="types-of-emergency">Types of emergency<a class="anchor" href="#types-of-emergency">#</a></h1> <p>Not five buttons — <strong>one button, and it asks what kind.</strong> That is the only question it ever asks, and the answers are <a href="http://escudo.red/en/technology/telegram/setting-it-up/">configurable</a>: rename them, drop one, add your own.</p> <p>They exist for one reason: <strong>the category tells a neighbour what to bring and how fast to move</strong> before they&rsquo;ve read a word.</p> <p>Four of them are emergencies and <strong>make a noise in every house</strong>. The fifth doesn&rsquo;t, and that&rsquo;s the point of it.</p>