A Made by Asking experiment All ideas
For families with a parent living alone

Know they're okay, without watching them.

Kinwatch notices falls, missed mornings, and night wandering — then tells you. Never a video by default.

Concept product in development · early access, not yet for sale

A warm Kinwatch camera resting on a shelf, with an elderly woman reading quietly in the background Shared room, not the bedroom
The problem

You call every day. That's not the same as knowing.

Your parent says they're fine — until the day they aren't, and nobody finds out for hours.

A fall can go unheard. No one's close enough to hear it happen.

Cameras feel like spying. Your parent already said no to a live feed.

You can't be the only alarm. Daily calls miss the 3am wandering.

An adult daughter, visibly relieved, looking at an alert on her phone
How it works

Three steps, no video feed to babysit.

A small sensor-camera for shared rooms, paired with a family app.

1

It learns the ordinary

Over the first couple weeks, it quietly learns your parent's normal rhythm.

2

Video becomes an outline

An on-device chip turns motion into a moving outline. Raw video is never stored or sent anywhere, by default.

3

You hear what's unusual

A fall-like event, long stillness, or late-night wandering sends a plain-language alert — not a clip to watch.

Features

Built around what you're actually worried about.

Fall-pattern detection

Spots fall-like movement from the outline, alerts right away.

Inactivity alerts

Flags long stretches with no movement, or no morning activity.

Night-wandering notice

Flags movement through the house at unusual late hours.

Silhouette by default

You'd only ever see a moving outline, never a face or room.

Evidence

Why this approach, and what it's built on.

We didn't invent the underlying ideas — here's the public research behind them.

Falls are common, and often go unheard for hours.

27.6% of adults 65+ reported a fall in the past year (CDC); a third of over-90 fallers lay on the floor an hour or more (BMJ, 2008).

CDC / MMWR ↗ · Fleming & Brayne, BMJ ↗

Camera-based fall detection is real, studied research.

A systematic review covers 81 vision-based fall detection systems — a studied field, not a marketing idea.

Gutiérrez et al., Sensors 2021 ↗

Skeleton outlines are a real privacy-preserving approach.

Dementia-care researchers have tested anonymizing people into skeleton figures to protect privacy while still tracking risk.

BioMedical Engineering Online, 2023 ↗
Kinwatch is a concept product. These figures describe the research landscape, not a clinical claim about Kinwatch. It does not diagnose, guarantee detection, or replace emergency services.
Who it's for

Different families, same 2am worry.

Long-distance

Dana, 46 — three states from her mother

A nightly call tells her how mom says she's doing. Kinwatch tells her when something actually changed.

Sandwich generation

Marcus, 52 — his kids, plus his dad's memory loss

Wants to know if his dad is wandering at 3am again — without a monitor on his bed.

Shared caregiving

The Okafor siblings, splitting care for grandma

Three siblings, three time zones, one shared circle — nobody's guessing who already checked in.

Pricing

Early-access pricing (planned)

Nothing is charged today. This is the plan we're testing — tell us on the waitlist if it looks right.

Starter
$19
per month, planned · 1 camera
  • Fall & inactivity alerts
  • Silhouette view, on-device
  • One family member on alerts
Join the waitlist
Family
$34
per month, planned · up to 3 cameras
  • Everything in Starter
  • Night-wandering & routine alerts
  • Shared circle, up to 5 people
  • Daily rhythm digest
Join the waitlist
Multi-home
Custom
planned · more than one household
  • Everything in Family
  • Multiple homes, one account
  • Priority setup support
Join the waitlist

Early-access pricing (planned) — subject to change before any public launch.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Does Kinwatch record video of my parent?

By default, no. The camera processes everything on-device and shows a moving outline instead of video. Raw video isn't stored or sent to the cloud by default.

Is this spying on my parent?

No — it's built around consent. Set it up together, place it in rooms they agree to, and they should always be able to say no.

What happens if it gets it wrong?

Like any sensor system, it can miss an event or send a false alert. It helps you notice sooner — it isn't a medical device and doesn't replace emergency services.

Does it call 911 automatically?

No. It alerts your family circle. Deciding whether to call for help is always up to you.

What data leaves the house?

Only alerts — what happened, when, where — go to your family's app. Raw video stays on-device by default. Full data details come before any public launch.

What if the internet goes down?

Detection runs locally on the device. Sending an alert still needs a connection; we're designing a short local buffer for brief outages.

Early access

Be first to know when it's ready.

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