A resident who falls in the bathroom at 2 AM can lie there until the 4 AM round. A camera does not belong in there.
Half of older adults who lie on the floor over an hour die within six months.
Off-the-shelf sensors fire on the ceiling fan, the therapy dog and every hard sit onto the toilet, until staff mute the panel. A muted panel watches nothing.
So we built Vigil. We do not sell sensors. It is the intelligence layer between the sensor and the nurse-call system, working from radar features only, never an image.
We ran it over a synthetic night shift, no real residents. It stayed quiet through the fan, the dog and the hard sits, then alerted: a resident on the bathroom floor, breathing, not getting up.
The other real fall that night was in a room with two people. Vigil would not call it a fall, and asked for a human check.
Send this to whoever owns the nurse-call panel, yours or your parent's, and ask what it fired on last night.
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Published on Instagram · September 8, 2026
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