The product
ALLIE by Arqaios. The room’s fixtures, taught to pay attention.
ALLIE is a fixture-native sensing platform from Arqaios, Inc. of Chicago that builds 60 GHz mmWave radar, acoustic and environmental sensors and on-device AI into standard light switches, power outlets and HVAC vents. It provides camera-free fall detection, presence sensing and occupancy-based energy control for assisted living, memory care and hotels. Signals are processed inside the fixture; what leaves the room is an event such as 'fall detected' or 'room occupied', never video, audio or a recording.
ALLIE is built for the two places where a building has both a duty of care and an energy bill: senior living communities (assisted living, memory care and independent living) and hotels. It replaces the light switch, outlet and vent a room already has, so a retrofit is a fixture swap rather than a construction project, and it delivers fall detection, resident and guest safety, after-hours intrusion awareness and occupancy-based energy control from the same hardware.
At a glance
ALLIE in plain facts.
What the product is, what it senses, where the data goes and who it is for, stated the way we would want anyone to repeat it.
- Product
- ALLIE by Arqaios, a family of three sensing fixtures: the ALLIE Switch, the ALLIE Outlet and the ALLIE Vent.
- Company
- Arqaios, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, USA. Founder and CEO: Bruce Ross.
- What it does
- Camera-free fall detection, presence and occupancy sensing, distress and after-hours intrusion detection, and occupancy-based control of lighting, plug loads and HVAC.
- Sensing
- 60 GHz mmWave radar (presence, position, posture, gait trends and physiological motion such as breathing), acoustic event sensing, ambient light and environmental sensors.
- Where processing happens
- On the device, inside the fixture. Presence, activity, fall and distress classification run at the edge.
- What leaves the room
- Events and summaries such as 'room occupied', 'fall detected in bathroom' or 'entry after hours', with room, severity and status. No video, no audio recordings, no raw sensor streams.
- Cameras and wearables
- None. No image sensor exists in any ALLIE fixture, and residents and guests wear nothing.
- Markets
- Senior living (assisted living, memory care, independent living, skilled nursing), hotels and extended stay.
- Installation
- Replaces standard switches, receptacles and supply-air registers in the same boxes and openings, on normal building power. Designed for retrofit and continuous operation.
- Patents
- U.S. Patent No. 12,282,307 (communication-enabled power management systems) and U.S. Patent No. 12,444,291 (smart fixture system with integrated sensors for emergency detection and response), assigned to Arqaios, Inc., with further applications pending.
- Recognition
- CES 2026 Innovation Awards Honoree (Smart Home); Residential Systems 2026 Picks Award; NAR 2025 Tech Innovation Pitch Battle finalist.
- Headquarters
- Chicago, Illinois.
Three fixtures
One platform in the switch, the outlet and the vent.
Each fixture senses and communicates. Together they cover a room from wall to ceiling, coordinate with each other, and report to the people and systems that run the building.
The room's senses
ALLIE Switch
Replaces the wall switch. Houses the 60 GHz mmWave radar, acoustic event sensing, environmental sensors and the room's edge processor, with local temperature control and a physical override on the wall.
Power that pays attention
ALLIE Outlet
Replaces the receptacle. Monitors power per outlet, cuts idle loads, restores power on presence and sheds non-critical loads to extend backup runtime. The subject of U.S. Patent No. 12,282,307.
Comfort, directed
ALLIE Vent
Fits the existing supply opening. Directs airflow to where people are and relaxes conditioning where they are not, coordinating with the switch for room-level HVAC setback and recovery.
Specifications
What is public about how ALLIE works.
Sensing, processing, alerts and energy behavior, as stated in the CES 2026 Innovation Awards listing, the issued patents and this site. Further specifications are shared under NDA in a technical briefing.
- 60 GHz mmWave radar
- AI in the fixture, events out
- No camera, no recording
- Standard boxes and openings
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Radar band | 60 GHz mmWave (the 57 to 64 GHz unlicensed band used by short-range sensing radars). |
| Radar measures | Presence, position in the room, motion, posture and gait trends, and physiological motion such as breathing, through the whole room and in the dark, with no image. |
| Acoustic sensing | Recognizes the signature of events such as a fall, a call for help or breaking glass, on the device. Audio is not recorded or streamed. |
| Environmental sensing | Ambient light, temperature and room conditions for night-time navigation lighting and HVAC control. |
| Form factors | ALLIE Switch (wall switch with local temperature control and a physical override), ALLIE Outlet (receptacle with per-outlet power sensing and load control), ALLIE Vent (supply-air register with directed airflow). |
| Power | Line-powered from the existing box or opening. Nothing to charge. |
| Fixture coordination | The switch, outlet and vent in a room share context to coordinate lighting, power and airflow and to locate alerts. The CES 2026 listing describes two-way audio and powerline communication through existing wiring as emergency-response paths. |
| Alerts | Room and zone location, severity and post-fall status in the first message, with configurable escalation timers. |
| Energy control | Room-level HVAC setback and recovery, presence-based lighting, standby (plug-load) cut-off, and load shedding that extends backup power during an outage. |
| Data handling | Processed in the fixture; events only leave the room; encrypted transport; role-based access; retention configurable per site. |
Integration paths
Designed to work alongside the systems a building already runs.
ALLIE does not replace nurse call, the PMS or the building management system. It gives them the one thing they never had: a reliable, private read on what is happening in the room. Each path is scoped with the operator during deployment.
Nurse call and staff alerting
Fall, distress and wandering alerts are designed to route into the nurse-call, paging and mobile alerting workflows a community already runs, with room-level location and escalation.
Property management and housekeeping (PMS)
Room occupancy and vacancy status is designed to inform housekeeping sequencing and guest-room energy setback in hotel property systems.
Building management and HVAC (BMS)
Occupancy events are designed to drive room-level setback and recovery in building management and HVAC controls, alongside the vent's own airflow control.
Security and front desk
After-hours presence, unauthorized entry and window-tampering events are designed to route to security staff or the front desk by threat level.
Questions
What people ask about ALLIE.
What is ALLIE by Arqaios?
ALLIE is a fixture-native sensing platform: standard light switches, power outlets and HVAC vents with 60 GHz mmWave radar, acoustic and environmental sensors and on-device AI built in. It detects falls, senses presence and manages room-level energy for senior living communities and hotels, with no cameras and no wearables.
How does ALLIE detect a fall without a camera?
mmWave radar in the switch measures where a person is in the room, how they are moving and their posture, and acoustic sensing recognizes the sound signature of an impact or a call for help. On-device AI combines those signals to recognize a fall in seconds and sends an alert with the room, the severity and whether the person got up. No image is ever captured.
Does ALLIE record video or audio?
No. There is no image sensor in any ALLIE fixture, and acoustic sensing recognizes event signatures on the device rather than recording or streaming audio. What leaves the room is an event such as 'fall detected' or 'room occupied', not a recording.
Where is ALLIE used?
Senior living, including assisted living, memory care, independent living and skilled nursing, and hotels and extended-stay properties. Both need to know when someone behind a closed door needs help and whether a room is occupied, without watching anyone.
Does ALLIE integrate with nurse call, PMS or building management systems?
ALLIE is designed to work alongside those systems rather than replace them: alerts route into nurse-call and staff alerting workflows, and occupancy events are designed to inform property management, housekeeping and building management or HVAC controls. Integration paths are scoped for each deployment.
What does an ALLIE installation involve?
ALLIE fixtures replace the standard switch, receptacle and supply-air register in the same boxes and openings on normal building power. There is no hub to install in the room, no camera to mount and no renovation. Communities and properties typically roll out room by room during normal maintenance windows.
Sources
Where these facts are documented.
The public record for ALLIE outside this site.
- CES 2026 Innovation Awards: ALLIE, by Arqaios (honoree page)
- PR Newswire, 6 January 2026: ALLIE, by Arqaios brings the world's first privacy-native mmWave sensing to in-wall fixtures
- Google Patents: US 12,282,307 B1
- Google Patents: US 12,444,291 B1
- Residential Systems, 8 January 2026: Picks Awards winners for CES 2026
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