Privacy-first elder care

To protect those who once protected us.

IseeHome.ai is a home monitoring system for elderly parents living alone. It sees a fall, not a person — everything runs on a Raspberry Pi 5 in the living room, and video never leaves the house.

1 in 6
people worldwide will be over 60 by 2030 — many living, and ageing, alone.
$1,000+
is what most camera-based elder monitoring systems cost — priced for hospitals, not homes.
0 frames
of raw video ever leave the device. Only skeletal coordinates travel to the family dashboard.
What it actually does

Care that notices, without a camera that intrudes.

IseeHome.ai runs entirely on a small computer under the TV or on a shelf. It doesn't stream footage anywhere — it watches for the moments that matter, and tells you in plain language when something's wrong.

Privacy by design

Video is processed on the Raspberry Pi 5 itself and never transmitted. Only an anonymised stick-figure outline reaches the family dashboard, so dignity stays intact even while monitored.

Real-time fall alerts

A sudden posture change followed by seconds of stillness triggers an instant WhatsApp or email alert to family or caregivers — anywhere in the world.

Predictive wellbeing trends

Seven days of activity on the dashboard, thirty days in the background — surfacing the gradual declines that come before a crisis.

Sees in the dark, gently

A NoIR camera with infrared light keeps watch overnight without a single visible glow in the room — no disturbed sleep, no bedside spotlight.

Own it once, no subscription

One home kit, roughly the cost of a mid-range phone, self-hosted with zero monthly fees — instead of the $10–$100-a-month lock-in competitors charge.

A hybrid AI engine

YOLOv8 finds the person; MediaPipe reads their 33 body key-points. Together they tell standing, sitting and lying apart at 20 frames a second, on affordable hardware.

"Most seniors prefer the comfort and autonomy of their own homes over professionally managed care facilities — moving to an unfamiliar environment can hurt their emotional wellbeing."
— FROM THE ISEEHOME.AI PROJECT REPORT, ON THE CASE FOR HOME-BASED MONITORING
The math

Enterprise-grade monitoring, home-sized cost.

Most competitors are priced and licensed for hospitals and large care homes. IseeHome.ai was designed for one house, one family.

ProductInitial costMonthly feeWhere it falls short for a home
Kepler Night Nurse~$3,000+>$100Built for hospitals, not individual homes
Nobi Smart Lamp~$2,500+~$19–$119Hardware cost alone is out of reach for most families
Vayyar Care~$350~$10–$30No HD voice; needs an Alexa subscription for full use
KamiCare~$100~$25Off-site staff verify falls — a privacy trade-off
IseeHome.aiHOME~$120 (Pi 5 kit)$0 — self-hostedFull control and privacy, at cost price
IseeHome.ai — a privacy-preserving edge monitoring framework for home-based elder care.
Interim project by Sanjay Jacob · MEng Computer Vision & AI · University of Limerick