Phones and devices on Escudo

Choosing one, with the person

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Choosing one, with the person#

Start with the phone they already own. Buy a device only when there’s a reason a phone won’t do — it has to be worn, or it has to work when the person is unconscious, or the hands won’t manage a keypad.

The requirement, in a shop#

One line, and it’s the only thing Escudo asks:

It must be able to call or send an SMS to a stored number.

The Escudo number

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Escudo number#

One ordinary Spanish phone number, held by the village. Every registered device and every registered phone stores it, and the bot answers it.

Ringing it is free. The call is never picked up, and a call that is never answered is a call nobody is billed for — not the village, and not the person ringing. There is no credit to run down and no bill to be afraid of, which matters more than it sounds: a device that costs something to use is a device people hesitate over, and hesitation is the whole thing Escudo is trying to remove.

Setting it up in your village

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Setting it up in your village#

The runbook for the second alert layer. It assumes the Telegram layer is already running, because this one posts into the same group through the same server.

One number for the whole village, not one per household. Every device and every registered phone stores the same number.

1. What you need first#

	Why
The Escudo server, deployed and reachable at a fixed `https://` address	Twilio has to POST to it, and it must be the same address every time
A Twilio account	Or another provider that POSTs inbound calls and texts to a URL
A Spanish tax ID — CIF for an association, NIF for a person	Required to hold a +34 number. Not a Twilio rule: it’s CNMC numbering policy, so every provider asks
Proof of an address in the village	Utility bill, tax notice, rent receipt, title deed. A certificado de empadronamiento is worth trying if the bill isn’t in your name. No PO boxes

The paperwork is the slow part — expect a document review, not an instant purchase. Nothing else here takes more than ten minutes.