A camera-free room sensor that shows care staff who needs a check, and records the night for them. Nothing for residents to wear.
Staff go straight to the room that needs it.
Staff get a nudge.
No camera. No microphone. Nothing to wear.
Care teams are stretched, and time spent writing things down or waking people for checks is time not spent on care.
of Canadians were 65 or older in 2023.
Statistics Canada, 2024The 85-and-older population could triple by 2073, from 896,600 in 2023, growing fastest between 2031 and 2050.
Statistics Canada, 2024Average daily direct nursing and PSW care per Ontario long-term care resident in the latest reported year, short of the 4-hour target.
CBC Newsof nurses' time went to documentation in a 36-hospital study, nearly twice the time spent on direct patient care.
Hendrich et al., 2008 (hospital units)Residents notice the night shift too. In interviews with 30 nursing-home residents in Berlin, residents described night rounds as disturbing their sleep, and the authors suggested making rounds less frequent (Herrmann & Flick, 2012).
Sources: Statistics Canada, population projections (June 2024) · CBC News, Ontario long-term care care-hours target · Hendrich et al., Permanente Journal, 2008 · Herrmann & Flick, Pflege Zeitschrift, 2012
Millimetre-wave radar, the same sensing technology as automotive parking sensors, detects motion, distance and presence without capturing any visual or audio data. That's what lets it work in bedrooms and washrooms, where a camera is not an option.
Got up at night, left the room, no movement for a set time. These are recorded automatically and ready for charting, so staff do not write them down.
A dashboard showing which residents are settled and which are up, so staff check only those who need it. That means fewer interrupted nights for residents and less time on rounds.
Notices when a room has gone quiet for longer than it should, or someone has left it, with nothing to wear.
After about two weeks of watching a room, the software knows that resident's usual routine. It then notifies family or caregivers when something is clearly different, such as getting up much later than normal.
Activity summaries for care-plan meetings, incident reviews and compliance inspections.
A simple daily update that a relative was up and about, so fewer calls come to the desk.
Green: staff check-in. A carer taps it on a visit or night round, and the visit is logged with its time automatically: documentation without writing anything. Red: help. One press tells family or caregivers right away, by email and phone, that the resident needs help.
What we collect, where it lives and how it is protected, in plain words. The full detail is in our privacy policy.
The sensor is radar. No image or sound is ever captured, stored or sent.
Servers, database, stored files and backups are in Microsoft Azure’s Canada Central region.
Every connection uses HTTPS (TLS 1.2 or newer). The database is encrypted at rest and cannot be reached from the public internet.
Each account’s information is kept separate from every other account’s. Passwords are stored only as salted hashes.
Regular sensor readings are deleted automatically after 30 days by default.
You can ask whether we hold information about you, get a copy of it, and ask us to correct it.
One per room. It mounts on a wall and needs a power outlet and the home’s Wi-Fi.
Millimetre-wave radar senses movement and presence. No lens, no microphone, no image, and nothing for the resident to wear.
Room activity is logged for staff, the night view shows who needs a check, and family or caregivers hear when something is unusual for that resident.
Many residents, few staff, and privacy rules that rule cameras out.
Want to know their relative is doing their usual routine.
Correct. The sensor is millimetre-wave radar. There is no lens and no microphone, so no image or audio is ever captured, stored or transmitted.
Presence, movement and whether a room is occupied, measured from how objects reflect radio waves. It can tell that someone is in a room, that they have left it, and that there has been no movement for a set time. It is not a medical device.
Each room's sensor builds a picture of that resident's usual routine, such as when they normally first move in the morning. It needs about two weeks of data before it sends alerts based on that routine, so it does not guess from a day or two. Today it can flag a morning that starts much later than usual. It notices a change and does not say why, and it is not a medical device.
The green button is for staff check-ins: a carer taps it on a visit or night round and the visit is logged with its time. The red button is the emergency button: one press notifies family or caregivers, by email and phone, that the resident needs help. It does not call emergency services or a monitoring centre, so in an emergency always call your local emergency number.
No. It helps staff decide who to check first, and when a quiet look is enough. Your care plans and protocols still decide who is checked and how often.
Yes. It transmits at a tiny fraction of the power of a mobile phone, in the same class of low-power sensing used in automotive parking sensors and consumer devices.
In Canada. Only activity signals and records are kept, never video or audio, because none is produced.
No. See the note below.
