Fall detection for elderly parents, with nothing to wear.
Pendants only work when they are worn, charged, and the person is conscious enough to press them. Camera-based detection removes all three conditions.
The problem with the pendant
Medical alert buttons have been the default answer for decades, and they fail in a predictable way: they are not on the person. They come off for showers and sleep, they sit on the nightstand, they run out of battery, and they get left behind because wearing one feels like an admission.
Even when worn, a button requires the person to be conscious and oriented enough to press it. The falls that cause the worst outcomes — a hard landing, a stroke, a faint — are frequently the ones where nobody presses anything.
How camera-based fall detection works
The hub runs pose estimation on the local camera feed. It tracks body position and the rate of change — a person going from upright to floor level quickly, then not getting back up, is a different signal from someone sitting down or bending to pick something up.
Because the system already knows the room layout and the household's normal patterns, it can tell the difference between someone lying on the sofa at 8pm and someone lying on the kitchen floor at 8pm. That context is what keeps false alarms down.
All of this runs on the hub in the home. No footage is streamed to a monitoring centre, and no video is uploaded for review.
What happens when a fall is detected
You get a notification with a timestamp, the room, a single still frame and a short plain-English description of what was detected — enough to decide in five seconds whether to call or to check in later.
If the first contact does not acknowledge, the alert escalates down the chain you configured: a sibling, a neighbour, a paid caregiver. Quiet hours apply to routine notifications, never to a fall.
