About
Nurse call hasn't really changed since the 1960s.
A button, a wire, a light over a door. It was a good design. It's just that everything around it — who lives in these buildings, how many staff there are, what a computer can do in a room — has changed completely, and the button hasn't.
Heimdall Technologies
Named for the watchman.
In Norse myth, Heimdall keeps watch at the edge of the world. He hears the grass grow. He sees a hundred leagues by night as easily as by day. He sleeps less than a bird. And when something comes, he sounds the horn — so that everyone knows before it arrives.
That's the whole job. Not watching people. Watching for them, and getting word out ahead of the trouble. Foreword is the product; Heimdall Technologies is the company that builds it.
What we believe
Four things, and we build to them.
Nobody should wait in silence
The gap between pressing a button and hearing a human voice is the most frightening part of a call. It costs nothing to fill, so we fill it.
The safety path never depends on the internet
If the WAN is down, a resident must still be able to call for help. Everything clever we build sits alongside that path, never inside it. This isn't a feature; it's a constraint we design under.
Privacy is the resident's decision
Not the vendor's, not the building's. And it must never cost her safety to exercise — a privacy setting that disables fall detection is a trap, not a choice.
Buy what you need, when you need it
A nurse call shouldn't be an all-or-nothing capital event. Start with calls. Add detection where the risk is. Add voice where it helps.
Who's building it
A small team in Portland.
We do the hardware, the edge AI, and the software. That's deliberate: a nurse call stitched together from three vendors fails at the seams, and the seams are where a resident is waiting.
We're at pilot stage — real hardware in real rooms, working with operators who want to shape it before it's finished. If that sounds like you, we'd like to talk.
Investors
Two curves crossing.
The number of people who need care is rising faster than the number of people available to give it. At the same time, the AI that can help — speech, vision, conversation — got small enough and cheap enough to live in the room, on hardware costing less than the wiring of a nurse call station.
We're building the system that sits where those curves cross. If you invest in aging, care delivery, or edge AI, we'd welcome a conversation.