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MetaVigil

A small device on her nightstand. A clear answer on your phone.

Mom's in Wichita. You're in Denver. The device on her nightstand watches four things: falls, breathing, heart rate, and whether she's in the room. No cameras, no bracelet, no router changes — it works with the WiFi already in her home.

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Designed with families and caregivers, not at them.

< 2 sec
Fall-to-alert
0
Cameras in the room
30-day
Breathing baseline
< 10 min
Self-install

What it does

What the device watches.

That's enough to tell you whether she got up, how she slept, and whether anything looks off compared to last week.

One device per room. About the size of a slim WiFi router. Plug it into an outlet by her bed, connect it to her 2.4 or 5 GHz WiFi during setup, then leave it alone. Two sensors inside — WiFi signal analysis and a passive 24 GHz radar — work together so the picture is reliable even when she's perfectly still.

  1. Falls

    If she falls, you know within seconds. The alert reaches your phone, your watch, and the person you've designated as the second pair of eyes. Not maybe. Not eventually.

  2. Breathing

    Continuous, no chest strap, no wristband. We surface the trend over last night and last week, not the per-second noise.

  3. Heart rate

    Pulled from the same ambient signals. You see daily rhythm and weekly trend — the picture worth watching, not per-second noise.

  4. Presence

    In the room or out, quiet or moving. The gentle background signal that makes everything else legible.

  5. Sleep

    When she goes down, how often she wakes, how restless she was. Big-picture trends, not a sleep score.

The apps

The piece that connects you to her.

The sensor does the sensing. The phone is where the value actually lands. It's the moment your day gets a little quieter, because you already know her morning went fine.

iPhone, the hub

Always with you.

The MetaVigil app for iOS 17+. Where you check in, where you respond, and where you eventually trust the system enough to stop worrying.

  • Live tab: where she is and whether she&#39;s moving
  • Resident timeline: last 24 hours at a glance
  • Alerts: falls, vitals out of pattern, prolonged absence
  • Two-tap disposition: confirm, dismiss, escalate
Apple Watch, the glance

Five-second check-in.

Lift your wrist. The watch face tells you whether she's present, how she's breathing, and whether anything is out of pattern. When something matters, a critical alert breaks through Do Not Disturb.

  • Glanceable status complication
  • Critical-alert push that bypasses Do Not Disturb
  • Quick acknowledge from the wrist
Android, coming Q3 2026

For everyone else.

Not every daughter has an iPhone. Android arrives in the third quarter of 2026 with the full family-side experience. Join the early-access list and we'll write to you the week it ships.

  • Everything the iPhone app has, built natively for Android
  • Native Material design, not a wrapped iOS app
  • Same Apple Sign-in or Google account

Why ambient

The two old options. And a third.

Cameras feel like surveillance. Wearables only work when she's wearing them. Ambient sensing is the third option: it's just there, like the WiFi itself.

MetaVigil Cameras Wearables
Sees how she's doing Always on, no setup Yes, with all the trade-offs Only when she remembers
Respects her dignity No camera. No mic. No record of what she did in the bathroom. Records the bathroom too A bracelet that says "you might fall"
Works at 3 a.m. Same as 3 p.m. Needs light Off the wrist for the night
Tells you something useful Real signals, not a video feed to scrub later You watch the footage. After. Steps and beeps

How it works

Plug it in. Connect WiFi. Done in ten minutes.

Setup is plug-and-WiFi. The hard engineering stays on our side.

  1. Plug it in

    Set the device on her nightstand. One outlet, one minute. The app walks you through connecting it to her WiFi — 2.4 or 5 GHz, no changes to the router.

  2. Two sensors, one picture

    Not a camera — never. Two sensors work in parallel: WiFi signals that bend around a body, and a passive 24 GHz radar built into the device. Together they read presence, motion, breathing, heart rate, and falls.

  3. You see it on your phone

    A calm dashboard, plus a notification when something matters. Your Apple Watch buzzes if she falls. That's the whole loop.

For families

Mom's in Wichita. You're in Denver. You can't drive over every morning.

MetaVigil tells you what you'd see if you walked in: she's up, she's moving, vitals look like yesterday. We'll talk through her house on a call and figure out where the devices go.

What we'll set up together

  • Two sensors, starting with the bedroom
  • iPhone app and Apple Watch glance
  • Fall detection, vitals, presence, sleep patterns
  • Self-install in about 10 minutes
  • Email support that a real person reads
Set up a 20-minute call See what the app shows

For facilities

Three nodes per room. Fewer 3 a.m. surprises.

Three residents fell last quarter. One ended up in the ER. Pendants don't get worn.

MetaVigil sits alongside your existing call-light system. We come on-site, survey the floor, and start with a pilot in eight to twelve rooms. Most pilots run six weeks before anyone has to decide anything.

Nodes per room
3
Pilot footprint
8–12 rooms
Pilot length
6 weeks
Caregiver surfaces
iPhone, Apple Watch, staff dashboard
Audit log
Append-only, permissioned exports
Nurse-call
Optional integration where it fits
Install
On-site survey, we do the setup
Book a site survey Email hello@metavigil.care

Who's behind this

Built for our own families, too.

We've spent a decade building practical digital tools for healthcare. MetaVigil is the one we wanted to build for our own families.

The team has shipped before. We're founder-led, not VC-anxious. We talk to the people we serve and we'd rather take an extra month to get a thing right than ship the slick version of a thing that's still rough.

FAQ

A few honest answers.

Is this a medical device?

No. MetaVigil is a wellness support tool. It helps you notice things sooner, but it isn't a substitute for a doctor, a nurse, or a 911 call.

Does it use cameras or microphones?

Neither. Ever. The sensor measures how ordinary WiFi signals bend around a body. There is no audio capture and no video at any point in the system.

How does it know it's a fall and not just dropping a remote?

Falls have a signature: a sudden floor-level pattern that holds longer than a dropped object would. We tune for that. If we're ever uncertain, you get a "possible event" alert rather than a confirmed one.

What about her privacy?

We don't identify her by name in our logs. Raw signal data ages out within minutes. You can revoke access from the app at any time and it takes effect immediately.

What happens if the WiFi goes down?

The sensor keeps watching and stores a local buffer. When the network comes back, it catches up. If the outage is longer than a few minutes, the app tells you the system itself needs attention.

Will it work in an older home with thick walls?

Usually, yes. Older buildings sometimes need a small WiFi tune-up first. We figure that out together on the setup call before you commit.

When does the Android app ship?

Third quarter of 2026. You can join the early-access list in the Apps section above.

How does pricing work?

We're in pilot. Pricing depends on whether you're a family with one parent or a facility with eighty residents, so we work it out on a quick call. No surprise costs after the fact.

Talk to our team

Let's figure out what fits.

Tell us a little about who you're caring for or who you serve. A real person reads every note and replies inside a day.