diff --git a/distributor/src/distributor/website.bal b/distributor/src/distributor/website.bal
index 4bd6a8e..4eab78f 100644
--- a/distributor/src/distributor/website.bal
+++ b/distributor/src/distributor/website.bal
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import ballerina/file;
 import ballerina/http;
 import ballerina/log;
 import ballerina/mime;
+import ballerina/task;
 import ballerina/time;
 import ballerina/xmlutils;
 
@@ -439,3 +440,31 @@ function generateParliamentaryResultsTable() returns string {
     tab = tab + "</table>";
     return tab;
 }
+
+task:TimerConfiguration timerConfiguration = {
+    intervalInMillis: 30000,
+    initialDelayInMillis: 30000
+};
+listener task:Listener timer = new (timerConfiguration);
+
+service timerService on timer {
+    resource function onTrigger() {
+        string[] keys = jsonConnections.keys();
+        foreach string k in keys {
+            http:WebSocketCaller? con = jsonConnections[k];
+            if !(con is ()) {
+                log:printDebug("Pinging " + con.getConnectionId());
+                _ = start ping(con);
+            }
+        }  
+    }
+}
+
+final byte[] pingData = "ping".toBytes();
+
+function ping(http:WebSocketCaller con) {
+    var err = con->ping(pingData);
+    if (err is http:WebSocketError) {
+        log:printError(string `Error pinging ${con.getConnectionId()}`, err);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/distributor/web/active-2020-07-28-I b/distributor/web/active-2020-07-28-II
similarity index 100%
rename from distributor/web/active-2020-07-28-I
rename to distributor/web/active-2020-07-28-II
diff --git a/distributor/web/info.txt b/distributor/web/info.txt
index b36d46c..d9e108d 100644
--- a/distributor/web/info.txt
+++ b/distributor/web/info.txt
@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@
 
 ****** IMPORTANT *******
 **
-** The latest version of the subscriber JAR is subscriber-20200728-I.jar
+** The latest version of the subscriber JAR is subscriber-20200728-II.jar
 ** 	
-** Available at https://github.com/ECLK/Results-Dist/releases/tag/v2020-07-28-I
+** Available at https://github.com/ECLK/Results-Dist/releases/tag/v2020-07-28-II
 **
 ****** IMPORTANT *******
 
 Run it as follows:
 
-java -jar subscriber-20200728-I.jar [options]
+java -jar subscriber-20200728-II.jar [options]
 
 where options are:
 	-username=name          my username for authentication
diff --git a/subscriber/src/subscriber/constants.bal b/subscriber/src/subscriber/constants.bal
index 859f514..c18308e 100644
--- a/subscriber/src/subscriber/constants.bal
+++ b/subscriber/src/subscriber/constants.bal
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ const LEVEL_NF = "NATIONAL-FINAL";
 const WANT_IMAGE = "image=true";
 const WANT_AWAIT_RESULTS = "await=true";
 
-const MY_VERSION = "2020-07-28-I";
+const MY_VERSION = "2020-07-28-II";
 
 const UNDERSOCRE = "_";
 const COLON = ":";
diff --git a/subscriber/src/subscriber/subscriber.bal b/subscriber/src/subscriber/subscriber.bal
index 33debb4..d06e394 100644
--- a/subscriber/src/subscriber/subscriber.bal
+++ b/subscriber/src/subscriber/subscriber.bal
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import ballerina/io;
 import ballerina/log;
 
 import maryamzi/sound;
+import ballerina/lang.'string;
 
 boolean wantJson = false;
 boolean wantXml = false;
@@ -164,6 +165,10 @@ service resultDataOnlyClientService = @http:WebSocketServiceConfig {} service {
     resource function onClose(http:WebSocketClient wsEp, int statusCode, string reason) {
         log:printInfo(string `Connection closed: statusCode: ${statusCode}, reason: ${reason}`);  
     }
+
+    resource function onPing(http:WebSocketClient wsEp, byte[] data) {
+        logPingIfRequired(wsEp, data);
+    }
 };
 
 service awaitAndResultDataClientService = @http:WebSocketServiceConfig {} service {
@@ -191,6 +196,10 @@ service awaitAndResultDataClientService = @http:WebSocketServiceConfig {} servic
     resource function onClose(http:WebSocketClient wsEp, int statusCode, string reason) {
         log:printInfo(string `Connection closed: statusCode: ${statusCode}, reason: ${reason}`);  
     }
+
+    resource function onPing(http:WebSocketClient wsEp, byte[] data) {
+        logPingIfRequired(wsEp, data);
+    }
 };
 
 service imageAndResultDataClientService = @http:WebSocketServiceConfig {} service {
@@ -220,6 +229,10 @@ service imageAndResultDataClientService = @http:WebSocketServiceConfig {} servic
     resource function onClose(http:WebSocketClient wsEp, int statusCode, string reason) {
         log:printInfo(string `Connection closed: statusCode: ${statusCode}, reason: ${reason}`);  
     }
+
+    resource function onPing(http:WebSocketClient wsEp, byte[] data) {
+        logPingIfRequired(wsEp, data);
+    }
 };
 
 
@@ -257,6 +270,10 @@ service allClientService = @http:WebSocketServiceConfig {} service {
     resource function onClose(http:WebSocketClient wsEp, int statusCode, string reason) {
         log:printInfo(string `Connection closed: statusCode: ${statusCode}, reason: ${reason}`);  
     }
+
+    resource function onPing(http:WebSocketClient wsEp, byte[] data) {
+        logPingIfRequired(wsEp, data);
+    }
 };
 
 function notifyAwait() {
@@ -265,3 +282,10 @@ function notifyAwait() {
         log:printError("Error pinging on await notification", pingStatus);
     }
 }
+
+function logPingIfRequired(http:WebSocketClient wsEp, byte[] data) {
+    log:printDebug(function () returns string {
+        string|error res = 'string:fromBytes(data);
+        return "onPing: " +  (res is string ? res : data.toString());
+    });
+}