Sentinare Fall Detection & Activity Sensor, Privacy-Preserving Videoless Stick Figure View, Action Statistics, Medical Alert

This is to supplement the fall detection, sos watches and necklaces.The sentinare 3, AltumView ai fall detector stick figure privacy maintaining camera, is cooler than snot. However, none of the lg nor one plus phones could manage to push the wifi password to the device. I finally got a Chinese tablet, also on Android 12 to push the network password to the unit. They need are trying to fix the problem. I knew it was not a camera--I kept trying different android devices until one device worked. My guess is that their software is trying to peak at the phones password which obviously Android would not allow, except for the Chinese tablet.The fall detection, when I turned the led off, Failed in real situation, and failed, until I turned it and the ir on. They are working on the vertical falls and making it ultra sensitive. Also the hand wave for help only works if no bright light behind you.The mic and speaker quality could be better-- but it's infinitely better than nothing. The ability to see a heat map and get awareness of the health of a parent while retaining %100 parent privacy is awesome and Huge!!!Excellent sw ui! They thought out their software, really well, thinking of everything--minus the new product hiccups which will be fixed.Humans are invisible, sitting on the couch, and it only gets serious about depicting a stick figure when a person walks or lays down on the floor. My dog and cat are invisible too. Good job!If they fix the Wi-Fi password push problem and detect half a person laying down on the floor, get a fall detection mode that actually works and much more sensitive, they will have a perfect product!!! Right now, it's still a revolutionary product to keep elders a tad safer and better looked after, in their homes and in institutions, without the privacy issues of an optical camera. It allows us remote situational awareness (from seeing a fallen person heat map, to when they do not answer the phone, a pulse check to intercom ability, without invading the parents' privacy. You see a heat mapped person overlayed onto an old picture of the room, if you choose, and no worries about people watching you in the chair, or appearance of the body or room.Even with a broken wifi push, broken fall detection, I highly recommend buying. Being able to get situational awareness of a parent, keeping them out of the nursing home for as long as possible, makes it worth buying. The company just needs to invest more $ and fix the firmware and the Android app. So, it doesn't only detect some percent of obvious falls and I expect 20% of the Android devices will work for the set up of the camera.It is worth borrowing other people's phones to get the camera setup, despite not being perfected, because of other unprecedented supplemental benefits.

We have been using these for 7 months, are very satisfied with them, and recommend them. We started with 3 then 2 months later bought another 3. It is awesome having AI watching Mom & Dad for falls 24x7!The hardware, software, and documentation are great quality. Everything needed to install them comes in the box: sensor, articulating mounting brackets, screws and anchors, USB cable and AC/DC adapter. In some places we needed an extension cord (USB or AC) to reach an AC power outlet. The application is well thought out and designed. I especially like the timeline view for navigating through stick-figure recordings.Customer service and support has been responsive and helpful.There are some limitations to the person / fall detection that should be understood by the user.1. The sensors need to be calibrated initially and that must be done in person. It takes a picture of the room and you color in the floor area to indicate where lying down should be considered a problem. (You should not color in beds or lounge chairs where lying down is expected.)2. Because of camera perspective, falling toward or away from the camera might not be interpreted as a fall but as leaning toward or away from the camera or being taller or shorter. The AI is pretty good, but I installed two sensors per room in adjacent corners so every fall would occur across at least one of the camera's view. We put sensors in the three rooms they use most: the bedroom where Mom broke her first hip jumping out of bed after a noise (before sensors), the kitchen, and the living room.3. The sensor needs to see the person and their limbs, so expect it won't show them under their afghan or blanket.4. The infrared (IR) lights are not as bright as daylight or the room lights. So Dad was sometimes not detected at night when he navigated by just a nightlight from the next room while wearing some shade of baggy sweatsuit. It helped us to install more nightlights in all rooms.We occasionally get false detections of falls, but they have not been excessive, and comforts us that the AI is working. We subscribe to the home plan so several family members get notifications and we can coordinate and cover for each other. Most events we simply review and mark as resolved (like Mom cleaning a spill from the floor). The software allows marking some to ignore similar events in a location, which helped when Dad dangled his feet off his recliner, and when he regularly moved another chair to a spot in front of the TV and slouched in it.But the AI works. It alerted me halfway across the state late one night that Dad was on the floor next to his recliner when he fell off and couldn't get up. That is what we bought them to do.

Im giving this product a 1-star rating after using it for my elderly mother's home. We purchased 8 sensors and spent nearly $1500. There was also an unexpected monthly fee required to activate more than 5 sensors.Here are the main issues:1. Inaccurate Detection: The sensors produce frequent false alarms, even triggering when people are simply sitting.2. Lack of Learning: Despite being advertised as using "AI," the system doesn't learn to distinguish between real falls and false alarms.3. Ineffective Person Detection: The feature to detect falls or waves from specific individuals doesn't work reliably.4. Unreliable Visuals: The stick figure representations in the system are inconsistent and flicker frequently.5. No Video: I know this was never an advertised feature, but given these are pretty much useless and they are now all over the home, it would have been good to be able to use them as video cameras -but this is not supported.The system's high cost doesn't justify the poor performance and lack of advertised "AI" learning capabilities."

The premise was good, but very frustrated setting it up my brother my husband, and I all tried and gave up and did return it.