- HSE Technology Partner
Catches a fall the moment it happens.
Sensors that notice a fall, let your parent call for help by raising a hand, and show you how sleep and movement change week to week. Nothing to wear. No video.
- Three Ireland SME 2025 Winner
- AI Awards Finalist 2026
- 48-hour install if it’s urgent
What the family sees.
Every room, every alert and the week’s patterns, in one app on your phone.
The alert
“Mum has fallen”, where and when, and a stick-figure replay.
Every alert in one list
A fall, a raised hand, a disturbed sleep.
The week at a glance
Spot behavioural changes like disturbed sleep, wandering, and prolonged time in bed.
Welcome to SmartGuardian.
Sensors, one per room
Small wall units that turn people into stick figures on the device. Living room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom and hall, as you need.
The family app
Alerts with the room and time, a live stick-figure view, and the week’s patterns, for everyone on the family list.
A summary email
Daily or weekly: sensors online, a timeline of the day, time lying, sitting, bending and standing, and any alerts.
No video. Just a stick figure.
The sensor turns each person into a stick figure, on the device itself. When there is an alert, the family sees the stick figure, never actual camera footage.
- No video is recorded, sent or stored.
- If you add photos of the people who live there in the app, it recognises them, so the live view and each person’s day are shown by name. It’s optional: falls and raised hands are caught without it.
- Because there is no video, it can go in a bathroom or bedroom.
What the sensor does.
- Fall detection
- Detects a fall automatically, including gradual collapses.
- Weekly pattern
- Counts time in bed, movement, and night-time bathroom trips, and alerts you to behaviour changes within the week.
- Night alerts
- Flags getting up in the night and not going back to bed.
- Room activity
- Shows movement between the rooms covered.
- Call for help
- Raise an arm to call the family.
- Two-way voice
- Talk into the room through the sensor in each room.
- Rooms
- Usually bathroom, bedroom, living room, kitchen and hall.
The sensor technology behind SmartGuardian is a CES 2021 Innovation Awards Honoree.
A short email on how the day went.
Alongside the alerts, the family gets a summary email, daily or weekly. It takes a minute to read and shows whether the day looked like an ordinary one.
- Sensors online
Which sensors are working, so one that has been unplugged doesn’t go unnoticed.
- A timeline of the day
Each person’s day from midnight to midnight, coloured by what they were doing.
- Lying, sitting, bending, standing
Minutes in each, and the share of the day.
- Alerts by type
Falls, calls for help, and anyone staying too long in a room.
SmartGuardian · daily summaryTuesday 14 October
Sensor status
Mum’s day
- Lying 570 min
- Sitting 616 min
- Bending 9 min
- Standing 213 min
Activity breakdown
Alerts
Falls 0Help 0Overstay 1
Simple monthly rental.
€119/month
Rolling monthly, no minimum contract. We maintain the equipment.
€549 first room
€349 for each room after. Within 48 hours if it’s urgent, such as before a hospital discharge.
At approximately €4 per day, the rental compares with an average Fair Deal rate of about €1,291 a week (€184 a day) for a private or voluntary nursing home in March 2026. Installation is on top, as above.
A good fit when…
- There has been a fall and you want the next one to raise an alert, even if they cannot call.
- They’re coming home from hospital soon.
- A pendant alarm ended up in a drawer.
- Memory problems make a wearable impractical.
Pendant, camera or SmartGuardian?
Each has its place. This is where each one helps, and where it doesn’t.
| Feature | Pendant alarm | Indoor camera | SmartGuardian |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has to be worn, or charged | Yes | No | No Fitted on the wall |
| Catches a fall with no button pressed | Only fall-detect models, and not always | Only if someone is watching | Yes Automatically, though no system is perfect |
| Works in the bathroom and in bed | Only if it’s worn there (often taken off) | Not somewhere you’d put a camera | Yes Stick figures only |
| What the family sees | Nothing until a call comes in | Live video of the home | A stick figure, the room and the time |
| Tells you how the week is going | No | No | Yes Time in bed, movement, night-time trips |
| Works out of the house | Yes GPS models | No | No, in the home only |
Many families use a pendant outdoors and SmartGuardian at home. Read the full comparison.
See if SmartGuardian suits your family.
Talk to a specialist. We look at the home with you and recommend an installation, with no obligation.