Independence without constant checking
Can a parent live independently without a camera in the living room that the family can watch? That is the question ilonai was built to answer.
Home pilot: underway since 5 October 2026, room for four more. Join the pilot if you want in at this stage.
The real competitor is often “do nothing”
For many families the question is rarely which brand to buy. It is whether they need anything yet at all.
| Approach | Advantage | Gap |
|---|---|---|
| Nothing / periodic calls | Zero intrusion, zero cost | An unwitnessed fall may stay unnoticed until the next visit |
| Wearable button | Simple, no camera | Must be worn, charged, and pressed; fainting or being unable to press can block that |
| Ordinary indoor camera | Family can look | Someone has to be looking, and that live access is the privacy problem |
| Cloud smart-camera AI | Easy install, extra features | Often a vendor cloud and remote viewing by design |
| ilonai (design goal) | Automatic detection with stronger local compute, no live human surveillance, and visual disclosure only for an event | |
A normal camera lets somebody watch. ilonai is built so nobody has to.
What family gets, and what they do not
They get: an alert when help may be needed, a confirmation image, and a signal if the system itself stops working.
They do not get: a live camera page, an activity timeline, sleep reports, or a way to look in “just to check.”
Your family hears from the system when you may need help. The rest of your day stays yours.
No pendant to remember. No live camera for anyone to open.
Your home network stays ordinary
ilonai runs on its own closed network, wired wherever possible, with a separate cellular link for status and alerts. Where a cable isn’t practical, a camera joins that same closed network wirelessly. No camera cloud account. No dependence on household Wi-Fi. Nobody has to configure a router or forward a port.
Falls in Switzerland
This is a Swiss problem with Swiss numbers behind it. The BFU (September 2026) reports more than 1,700 fall deaths a year in Switzerland, mostly among people 65 and older.
ilonai does not claim to prevent those falls. What it does is turn an unwitnessed fall into a known event.