A resident falls at 2 a.m. Nobody hears it. They are found at the 4 a.m. check.

That gap is the problem. Not the fall itself, which will happen no matter how good your staff is, but the time between the fall and someone knowing about it.

LANgineers installs AI cameras in resident rooms that recognize a person on the floor and push an alert to the app on staff-issued phones in about a minute. The alert is loud on the caregiver’s phone: it sounds, it vibrates, it overrides Do Not Disturb and a turned-down volume, and it repeats until someone acknowledges it. Someone on the floor is an emergency and the phone treats it like one. But there is no alarm in the hallway and no monitor at the nurse station someone has to watch. Residents sleep through it. The person on shift does not.

What it does

It watches the floor, not the bed.

If any person is lying on the floor of the room for about a minute, staff phones get the alert. It does not matter who: a resident who fell out of bed, a resident who fell walking to the bathroom, a visitor, a staff member. It does not matter how many beds are in the room. A person on the floor for a minute is the trigger.

The one-minute threshold is deliberate. Someone kneeling to pick up a dropped comb, or crouching to make a bed, is on the floor for seconds. A person who has fallen and cannot get up is there for minutes. The delay is what separates a real alert from a nuisance one.

• Detects any person on the floor, in any room, regardless of bed layout
• Emergency-priority push alert through our staff app to whoever is on shift, by facility. Overrides mute and Do Not Disturb, repeats until acknowledged
• Works overnight, during meals, during shift change
• Optional, same camera: too long in the bathroom, legs over the side of the bed, someone entering the room, someone leaving the room
• Optional, exit cameras: wander and elopement alerts

What it does not do

It does not replace your staff, your rounds, or your call system. It is a second set of eyes, not the first. We say that plainly because facilities that treat it as a safety net rather than a supplement get the most out of it.

No setup burden

There is nothing to tune, calibrate, or train. One camera mounts in the center of the ceiling and sees the whole room, bed, floor, and doorway. The power and network components sit on a small portable backboard that clips to the wall beside an existing outlet, with a UL-listed plastic raceway running up the wall and across the ceiling to the camera. No new wiring, no electrician. Four small screws hold the camera to the ceiling; that is the whole footprint. We connect it and it starts working that day. Cameras are semi-portable: when a resident moves rooms or a room changes use, we move the camera with it.

Wander and elopement

For memory care we offer a separate, standalone system: face-recognition cameras at exits that fire only when an enrolled resident actually pushes a door open, and push an encrypted room identifier to staff phones in seconds. No names, no images, no connection to any other vendor’s equipment. It uses the same staff app and phones as fall detection. Read about Elopement Alerts.

Acknowledgment and record

What staff see: a fall alert from Lincoln Villa, as it appears in the app.

Every alert has to be acknowledged in the staff phone app. That produces a timeline for each event: when the person went down, when the alert went out, who acknowledged it, and when. It is a record you can show to a family, an insurer, or a licensing surveyor, and it is generated automatically without anyone filling out a form.

Privacy

No image ever leaves the room camera. The AI runs inside the camera, and the only thing it sends out is a signal: fallen, or not fallen. No video, no snapshots, no recording. There is nothing for anyone to watch, and nothing to be leaked, subpoenaed, or seen by the wrong person. Staff get a push alert in the app on their facility-issued phone that says which room, and they go.

Compliance

The system is designed and operated in adherence with California Title 22. Room cameras never send an image, elopement alerts never carry a resident’s name, and every alert is logged with an acknowledgment record. The camera manufacturer has provided written compliance documentation covering HIPAA, CCPA/CPRA, and GDPR. We will walk you through what applies to your license type.

Who it is for

Residential care facilities for the elderly and skilled nursing facilities. That is where it runs today and where the one-minute rule, the alert priorities, and the acknowledgment flow have been shaped by real staff on real shifts. The same system could work in a hospital setting; if that is you, call and we will talk it through.

In service today

The system is running in Bay Area residential care facilities now, including Lincoln Villa, where it has been in daily use with staff since installation. We are happy to arrange a conversation with a facility that uses it.

Pricing

Flat monthly rate per camera, equipment included. Call for a quote based on room count.

Also for care facilities

Business phone systems with nurse-station routing, managed WiFi that covers the whole building including resident rooms, security cameras for common areas and exits, and business internet with backup.

LANgineers has served Bay Area senior care facilities since 1993. Burlingame based. CA C-7 License #1143558.

Call 650-692-2001 or email sales@langineers.com