One unit on the wall notices a fall, or someone lying still too long. It asks out loud whether everything is alright — and if no answer comes, it gets help there in minutes.
Not on sale, and free to join. Built to the European radio and EMC standards; the CE conformity assessment is not finished, so we are not selling the device yet. The waitlist hears the date first.
Schematic. Fall detection and what happens next are specified and in development.
No wristband, no pendant, no charging cradle, nothing to remember at bedtime. It hangs on the wall and it runs. The fall that matters is the one where the pendant is on the nightstand.
No day off, no flat battery, no evening it was left in the bathroom. The hours when nobody else is there are exactly the hours it is there.
From one mounting point it covers the floor she actually crosses — bed, door, hallway and more. Not one chair, and not one wrist.
It knows where the bed is, where the door is, where the floor is. Someone lying down at 3pm in the afternoon on the sofa is a nap. The same posture on the bathroom floor is not. Movement without a room is a number; with a room it is a situation.
Not one threshold for every 72-year-old. Her hours, her pace, her slow mornings, the nap she always takes. What raises an alarm is this home no longer looking like itself.
The radar sees the posture. The room model knows where that posture is. The device asks out loud and hears the answer — or the silence after it. A model that knows this person weighs all of it together before anyone is disturbed. Most events end in the room.
Industrial design concept — not the finished casing.
One unit goes on the wall, 150 to 180 cm above the floor. It reads posture, position and how long someone has been still across the living area — in darkness, in steam, and under a blanket. The fall beside the bed at four in the morning is the one a wrist device sleeps through.
Current heart and breathing values, shown plainly, the way a fitness band shows them. Nothing compared, flagged or interpreted. Alarms come from movement and stillness. That separation is built in, not a setting.
When something looks wrong, the device speaks up in the room — out loud, from wording written before the event. The answer, or the absence of one, decides how urgent it is. Most events end right there, with nobody’s phone ringing.
Behind it sits a model that learns what an ordinary day looks like in this one home. Not one threshold for everyone — a yardstick for this household.
“This is Take Care, calling about Anna. At 14:12 the system detected a fall in the bathroom. There has been no movement for 4 minutes, and the question in the room was not answered. Heart rate is 105 bpm, breath rate is 8 bpm. Please attend now. Press 1 to confirm you are going.”
Never statesa health condition or a probability. A person always decides what happens next — the system hands them the facts and at most a recommendation.
How serious it looks sets the pace. A clear emergency opens the first steps together; something unclear walks them in order. Who gets called is whoever you chose — family, a neighbour, or the care staff already in the building.
In the room. An answer ends it there.
On her own phone. An answer ends it.
A spoken call. An answer ends it.
Family, or the care staff on shift. Press 1 means: I am on my way.
A neighbour, a second relative, the care service.
Only if nobody answered. Stays open until someone has.
Category comparison from publicly available product information, September 2026. It describes product categories, not individual vendors. “Specified, in build” describes planned function, not measured performance. Heart and breathing values are shown in the app as information only, at close range, and never raise an alarm.
Before we built anything, we gathered every kind of incidents that puts someone on the floor or leaves them there, and set each one against what a sensor can genuinely detect. Every line carries its source and says whether it comes from a peer-reviewed study or a manufacturer’s brochure.
Our clinical advisors work on it with us — shaping what goes into it and what it means. It is the reason this page promises less than the category does, and the reason we can tell you where the limits are.
Free. No payment, no account, no order. One click stops it.
We lend devices, free of charge, to the places willing to help us make the product better. Pick the one that describes you.
Both are separate from the waitlist. Trying one does not put you under any obligation to buy one.
No. It hangs on the wall and runs. There is nothing to put on, nothing to charge and nothing to press. When the device asks, a spoken answer or a key press is enough — that is the whole interaction.
We have not fixed the price, and we would rather say so than invent a number. It will be a one-off price for the device and a monthly price for the service. The waitlist hears it before it is public, and gets the best price we offer anyone at launch.
Once the CE conformity assessment is finished. We build to the European radio and EMC standards.
It keeps going: the app, a call to her, then the people you named, then your back-up contacts, and a staffed emergency line only if nobody answered. Whoever is called confirms with a key press that they are on their way, and it is only closed once a person has actually answered.
It is not a camera and it never produces an image. It uses 60 GHz radar to measure where someone is, in what posture, and how long they have been still. A microphone and speaker are built in because the device has to ask the question and hear the answer; the audio is processed on the device.
On a wall, 150 to 180 cm above the floor, in the room where she spends most of her time. From there it covers the living area and the way through to the rest of the home — the hallway, the door, the route to the bathroom. We settle the spot together at setup.
Yes — and it helps us a great deal. We lend devices free of charge to private homes in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and we run evaluations with care providers. Both are separate from the waitlist and neither obliges you to buy anything.
Free, under a minute, no payment. You hear the date and the price first, you get the best price we offer anyone at launch, and we ask you what would have to work in your parent’s flat while we can still change it.
Join the waitlistOr try it before it is on sale: in a private home · in a care setting
Take Care is not a medical device and makes no medical statement. Our measurement methods and evaluation protocol are still under development, so we publish no performance figures of our own yet. The system never calls emergency services by itself — a person always decides. Sources for every figure on this site: Gurley et al., NEJM 334:1710 (1996) · Wild, Nayak & Isaacs, BMJ 1981;282:266-8 · PMC10463813 · Destatis Mikrozensus 2024 PD25 N036 · Bundesverband Hausnotruf · EDPB Guidelines 3/2019 · DSK Orientierungshilfe Videoueberwachung 2020 · CNIL, recommandation vidéosurveillance en EHPAD 2024.