Pilot launching 2026 · Manitoba
A fall detector that never keeps a picture of you.
EMOTE4D watches for falls with a camera in the room. The picture never leaves the device, and nothing is recorded. All it produces is a stick figure — worked out on a small computer on-site, then discarded.
Privacy by architecture
It is a camera.
That is the point.
Most fall sensors ask you to wear something, or they put a live view of someone's home onto a company's servers. We didn't want either.
EMOTE4D uses a camera, but the picture is never saved and never sent anywhere. Each frame is turned into a stick figure on a small computer in the room, and the original image is thrown away in the same instant. The stick figure is the only thing the system keeps or acts on.
So here is the honest version: yes, there is a camera. What ever leaves the room is a drawing of where a body is — never a photograph of a person.
Two ways in
For families
Keeping an eye on a parent living alone, without putting a camera feed of their life on someone else's server.
For familiesFor care facilities
Fall coverage that passes a privacy review, runs without the cloud, and is built to earn staff trust instead of flooding them with false alarms.
For care facilitiesHow it works
From a room to a text message.
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A camera watches the room.
The whole system is a Raspberry Pi 5 and a Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3, sitting in the corner of a room. Everything happens on that one device.
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The image becomes a stick figure.
MediaPipe pose estimation reads body position from each frame, on the device, and the frame is discarded in the same moment. No image is stored. No image is sent.
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Two checks, not one.
A first model screens for a possible fall. A separate stage then confirms the person is actually on the ground before anything happens — which is what keeps ordinary movement from setting off an alert.
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A text goes to caregivers.
If the fall is confirmed, EMOTE4D sends an SMS. A short verification delay sits in between, on purpose, to cut false alarms.
Watch it happen
A fall, two checks, one text.
This is the same sequence the device runs, drawn from the stick figure it actually produces. The timings here are compressed so you don't have to wait.
- Check one — screen. The motion looks like a fall.
- Check two — verify. The person really is on the ground.
- Short delay, on purpose. Compressed in this demo. It exists to cut false alarms.
Images stored during this event: 0 · Images sent: 0
Plainly
What EMOTE4D is, and what it isn't.
It is
- A camera-based fall detector that runs entirely on the device.
- A way to get a text when someone falls, with nothing to wear or charge.
- Built so the detection itself never depends on the cloud or Wi-Fi.
- A pilot, launching in 2026.
It isn't
- A wearable pendant or a watch.
- A live video feed, a recording, or a cloud service.
- A medical device — and we don't claim a detection-accuracy number.
- Available yet. We're pre-launch.
We're not trying to out-research the big AI labs. We took tools they gave away for free, ran them on a small computer in the room, and pointed them at a problem those labs will never prioritize — helping an older person stay in their own home, safely, a little longer.
The pilot
We're starting in Manitoba.
EMOTE4D is pre-launch. The pilot begins in 2026 in Neepawa and Brandon. Join the waitlist and we'll be in touch — or write to us on the contact page.
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