Chicago, September 1, 2026. Arqaios founder and CEO Bruce Ross is the guest on the latest episode of Sage Pathways, the podcast on intentional longevity and lifestyle design from Sage Lifestyle Concierge. In 'Safe at Home, Private by Design', host Sun-Hee Yoon, the company's founder and CEO, asks what it takes to keep an older adult safe in the home they already love without turning that home into a surveillance system.
The conversation follows Bruce from his engineering career at Motorola to his grandmother's fall, the moment that led to Arqaios, and explains how sensing built into the light switches, outlets and vents a home already has can detect occupancy and falls from radar point clouds rather than video. He describes why the data stays in the home, how automated lighting reduces fall risk at night, how a change in someone's movement patterns can surface a health risk before it becomes an emergency, and how caregiver alerts escalate when help is needed.
Bruce and Sun-Hee also talk about why wearables so often fail the people who need them most, and where the intelligent home goes next: room-level climate control, lower energy bills and living spaces that adapt to the people in them.
The episode runs 28 minutes and is available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Sage Pathways is hosted by Sun-Hee Yoon, founder and CEO of Sage Lifestyle Concierge, an aging-services navigation and family caregiver support practice in the Oak Park and River Forest area west of Chicago, and publishes a new episode every two weeks.
In this episode
- 0:00Welcome to Sage Pathways
- 1:16Why the home matters in the aging journey
- 2:24Meet Bruce Ross
- 3:59From Motorola to AgeTech
- 5:16His grandmother's fall
- 7:20How Arqaios began
- 9:03How smart fixtures work
- 10:48Private by design: no cameras, no wearables
- 13:37Preventing falls with automation
- 15:40Data that stays in the home
- 16:52Early health signals in movement patterns
- 17:50Alerts, escalation and emergency response
- 19:29Why wearables fail older adults
- 21:57The future of home automation
- 24:23The energy savings vision
- 26:01The key takeaway on aging well
Sources and coverage
- Sage Pathways, 1 September 2026: Safe at Home, Private by Design (Spotify)
- Sage Pathways, 1 September 2026: Safe at Home, Private by Design (Apple Podcasts)
- Sun-Hee Yoon, host of Sage Pathways, on LinkedIn
- Sage Lifestyle Concierge on LinkedIn
- Sage Lifestyle Concierge
About Arqaios
Arqaios, Inc. is a Chicago-based technology company building ALLIE, a fixture-native sensing platform that embeds privacy-first 60 GHz mmWave radar, acoustic sensing and edge AI into standard light switches, power outlets and HVAC vents. ALLIE delivers camera-free fall detection and resident safety for senior living communities, and occupancy-based energy reduction and housekeeping awareness for hotels, with no cameras and no wearables. Arqaios is a CES 2026 Innovation Awards Honoree and a Residential Systems 2026 Picks Award winner and holds issued U.S. patents on its technology.
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