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I'm not sure this is actually helpful. If the cryonics team isn't anywhere nearby having this information may very well translate close to "well, we're not getting that one." It would help but probably only in marginal cases. Still, could be potentially quite useful. There have been cases where a team has been on standby due to someone's ill health or is getting ready to go on standby and the person dies slightly earlier than expected. My impression is that in those cases they've generally still managed to preserve the patients fairly quickly. But we don't know how quick it needs to be. This could be the sort of thing where even small amounts of time could matter.
Good thing there are telephones, ambulances and the possibility for neighbors or nearby friends to be emergency contacts. Add an enormously loud physical alarm to the device and anyone dying in their sleep who isn't living alone can have immediate attention of their housemates or family.
I'd expect such a system to occasionally save lives even apart from cryonic considerations and there would be a whole bunch of people who get chilled more rapidly.