Privacy
She decides what the camera does.
Not the building. Not us. Five privacy levels, chosen by the resident from her own phone, changed whenever she likes — and every single one of them still detects falls.
The five levels
From live video to no video at all.
A resident opens the app, taps a level, and it takes effect in her room. No request form, no conversation with staff, no waiting.
Full Monitoring
Staff can see live video, and the companion is available.
Do Not Disturb
Live video stays on for safety, but the companion won't start conversations.
Privacy View
Staff see only a stick-figure outline — never her camera image.
Privacy View + Quiet
Stick-figure outline only, and the companion stays quiet.
Camera View Off
Staff see no video at all. Falls are still detected and reported as alerts.
Read that last row again. A resident can switch the camera view off completely — staff see nothing — and she is still protected from a fall on her bathroom floor at 2 a.m.
Why that's possible
Because the AI is in the room.
Every other approach makes you choose. Send the video somewhere to be analysed and you get fall detection but no privacy. Turn the camera off and you get privacy but no fall detection. That trade only exists if the intelligence lives somewhere else.
Ours doesn't. The model runs on the device at the bedside. It watches the frame, decides whether that was a fall, and emits an event — a room number and a sentence. The image was never going anywhere in the first place. "Camera view off" simply means staff don't see it either.
No video pipeline
There's no stream to a data centre, because there's no data centre. There's a camera, a model, and an alert.
No recordings by default
The model reads frames and discards them. What persists is the alert and the record of what was said and done.
Nothing to subpoena elsewhere
Your residents' rooms aren't sitting on somebody else's storage. They aren't sitting anywhere.
How it works in practice
Choice, with a floor under it.
The community sets the ceiling
Your care team sets the most private level a resident may choose, based on their care plan. Within that, the choice is hers — and she can move up and down it freely.
Fall detection is not optional
No privacy level turns detection off. It isn't a setting a resident can accidentally disable, and it isn't a setting we'd want her to have. Privacy changes what staff see, never whether she's caught.
Changes are logged
Every privacy change is written to the audit trail — who changed it, when, from what to what. Not to police residents, but so nobody can quietly turn something off and deny it.
Our position
A camera in a bedroom is a serious thing.
Somebody who has just left the house they lived in for fifty years is now sleeping in a room with a lens in it. If she has no say over that, it isn't her room.
So the control belongs to her, it lives on her own phone, and it doesn't cost her safety to use it. That last part is the whole point. A privacy setting that turns off fall detection isn't a privacy setting — it's a trap dressed as a choice.