It learns their day, then speaks up when a day is different.
One camera in a shared room, a two-week learning period, and short texts to the people you choose. Here's the whole thing, including what it can't do.
Talk it over with them
Your parent decides whether they want it and which room it goes in. We'll send a short guide to help with that conversation.
Plug it in
A shelf in the kitchen or at the end of the hallway, about head height. Connect it to their WiFi from your phone and add who should get texts.
Two weeks of learning
It learns when they're usually up, when they eat, how much they move and how long the hallway takes them. You get a short note each evening while it learns.
Then it keeps quiet
One "normal day" text each evening. A text right away when something looks different, and a weekly note about slow changes.
Specific, and compared to them.
Every text says what happened and what's usual for them, so you can decide whether to call. These are the texts we're designing it to send.
Late morning
If they haven't come into the room well past their usual time. "Usual" is learned from their own mornings, so a 9 AM riser won't set it off at 8.
9:15 AM Mom hasn't come into the kitchen yet. Most days she's there by 7:40. It might be worth a call.
Possible fall
Built to alert you when the camera sees someone go down and not get back up within a few minutes. It can only see the room it's in.
2:41 PM Dad may have fallen in the hallway and hasn't gotten up. Call him now. If he doesn't answer, call someone nearby or 911.
Slow changes
Walking speed and how much they move, compared over weeks. These changes are real but slow, and easy to miss from a phone call.
Sunday Mom's walk down the hallway has taken longer than usual for three weeks. Worth asking how she's feeling.
Night trips
With the camera in the hallway, it counts trips through it at night and tells you when nights get busier than their usual.
8:00 AM Dad was up four times last night. He's usually up once.
The change you'd only notice at the holidays.
If you see a parent every few months, a slower walk can look sudden. Day to day it isn't. Vitals Home measures the same hallway walk every day, so a gradual change shows up as a line, weeks earlier.
It doesn't say why. It tells you something changed, so you can ask.
Time to walk the hallway, by week
Worth a lookA small computer that never sends a picture.
The camera has its own processor that runs the AI. It finds a person in each frame, notes where they are and how they're moving, and discards the frame. What it keeps is a list of times and measurements.
- The AI runs on the camera. Nothing is sent to the cloud to be analyzed.
- Works in the dark. A soft infrared light lets it count night trips without turning on a lamp.
- Plugs into the wall. No batteries to change. Needs a power outlet and home WiFi.
- If it goes quiet, you hear about it. If the camera stops checking in, because of a power cut or the WiFi going down, you get a text saying so.
Built on what we made for ranchers.
Vitals started as a camera for cattle that learns each animal's normal and texts the rancher when one changes. Vitals Home is that idea for a person, rebuilt for the inside of a house: no solar panel, no cell modem, much stricter privacy.
What it can't do.
Worth knowing before you reserve.
- It only sees one room. A fall in the bathroom or bedroom won't be seen. That's the trade for keeping cameras out of private rooms.
- It doesn't call for help. It texts you. If no one reads the text, nothing else happens.
- It will make mistakes. Some texts will be about nothing, and it will miss some things. We'll measure both in our home pilot and publish what we find.
- It's made for one person living alone. With a partner or a live-in carer, its idea of "normal" gets muddled.
- It needs WiFi. The first version uses the home's WiFi. If your parent doesn't have it, tell us when you reserve.
- It isn't a doctor. It notices changes in routine. It can't tell you what they mean.
Reserve a spot for your family.
Free to join the list. Founding families get the camera for $99 and the first month free.
Pre-launch reservation. Ship date to be decided. Fully refundable.