A camera that keeps what it sees to itself.
This is the reason Vitals Home exists. Most home cameras send video to a company's servers so someone can watch it. Ours is designed so no one can: the video is used inside the camera and never leaves the house.
Seen in the camera
The AI runs on the camera itself. Each picture is looked at, turned into a few facts, and thrown away within a second.
Never recorded
No recordings, no clips, no snapshots. There is no live view in any app, for you or for us.
Only text leaves
What leaves the house is short: a time, an event, a number. Enough to write you a text, and nothing that shows what anyone looks like.
What stays in the home, and what leaves.
This is how we're designing it. Before anything ships, we'll publish the real message format so anyone can check it.
Stays in the camera
- Every picture. Used for under a second, then discarded. Never saved to the camera's storage.
- The routine it learns. Usual wake time, mealtimes, walking speed. Kept on the camera so it can compare each new day.
- Anything about how a person looks. No faces, no clothes, no images of the home.
Leaves the house
- Events. "Late morning, usually by 7:40, now 9:15." "Possible fall, hallway, 2:41 PM."
- The daily summary. Times and counts for the "normal day" text: up at 6:58, kitchen at mealtimes, one night trip.
- A check-in. "I'm on and working," every few minutes, so we can text you if the camera goes offline.
One whole message, as designed:
{ "camera": "vh-0042",
"event": "possible_fall",
"room": "hallway",
"at": "14:41",
"still_down_minutes": 3 }
The people you add. That's it.
Family members you add get the texts. Your parent can see the list and take anyone off it.
We run the small server that turns the camera's messages into texts. It holds the event log (times and event types) and the phone numbers, so the texts can be sent. We look at it only to fix a problem you've asked us about. We never have video, because there isn't any.
Nobody else. We don't sell data, share it with advertisers, or use it to train anything outside your parent's own camera. If we ever wanted to use anonymous event logs to make the product better, we'd ask first, and no would be the default.
Text messages go through a texting company to reach your phone, the same way every automated text does. They're ordinary SMS, so keep that in mind when you choose who gets them.
Your parent stays in charge of it.
Off means off
Unplug it and it stops. We're also designing a cover that slides over the lens, so it's easy to see when it can't see.
Visitors are told
A small card for the kitchen explains the camera to aides, cleaners and grandkids: what it does, that it records nothing, and who to ask.
Delete everything
Cancel and we delete the event log and phone numbers from our server within 30 days. A reset wipes what the camera learned.
What we can't promise yet.
Vitals Home is in development. Everything on this page describes how we're designing it, not a finished product that someone has checked.
- No outside review yet. Nobody independent has tested our security. Before we ship, we'll publish how it works and ask people who know security to try to break it.
- Microphone. We're designing it without one. If that changes, we'll say so here before anyone pays.
- Health privacy law. Laws like HIPAA usually cover doctors and insurers, not a product a family buys. That's why we've written our rules down on this page, and why we'll tell you before any of them change.
- Software updates. The camera will get updates from us. An update could, in theory, change what it sends. We'll publish a change log, and nothing that sends pictures will ever be part of one.
What this site keeps about you.
No cookies, no analytics, no ad trackers. The site is plain pages hosted on Cloudflare Pages, which keeps standard server logs.
The waitlist stores what you type in the form (your email, and your name, ZIP, answers and note if you give them), the time you signed up, and the name of the link that brought you here if there was one, like a post in a community group. We use it only to email you about Vitals Home. We don't share or sell it.
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Last updated 13 November 2026.
Reserve a spot for your family.
Free to join the list. Founding families get the camera for $99 and the first month free.
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