Independence without constant checking
Can a parent live independently without putting a camera that family can watch inside their home? That is the question Ilonai is being built to answer.
In development. First home pilot being prepared. Not available to install today.
The real competitor is often “do nothing”
For many families the decision is not a brand comparison. It is: do we really need anything yet?
| 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 injury can block that |
| Ordinary indoor camera | Family can look | Someone has to look — and 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 designed so they do not have to.
What family would get — and would not
Would get (design): an alert when help may be needed, a confirmation image, and a signal if the system itself stops working.
Would not get: a live camera page, an activity timeline, sleep reports, or a way to look in “just to check.”
Your family gets an alert when you may need help — not a window into your daily life.
No pendant to remember. No live camera for anyone to open.
Your home network stays ordinary
Ilonai is intended to run on its own dedicated wired network with an independent cellular link for status and alerts. No camera cloud account. No dependence on household Wi-Fi. No asking families to configure routers or port forwarding.
Falls in Switzerland
Falls are a Swiss problem, not an abstract global statistic. The BFU 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. It is designed to turn an unwitnessed fall into a known event.