Privacy & Security
Privacy is the product, not a setting.
Bedrooms, bathrooms and hotel rooms are the last places anyone wants a camera. ALLIE gives operators room-level awareness from fixtures that cannot see a face: occupancy, movement, distress, unauthorized entry.
Why it matters
Cameras made monitoring possible. They also made it unacceptable.
Every operator faces the same trade-off: the more you can see, the less residents, guests and staff will accept. ALLIE removes the trade-off.
Cameras stall adoption
Families, residents and guests push back on lenses in private space, and regulators are increasingly on their side. Projects slow down or shrink to hallways.
Wearables get left on the nightstand
Pendants and watches are forgotten, refused or uncharged, most often by the very people at highest risk.
Security still needs eyes
Doors that open at 3 a.m., a memory-care resident leaving a wing, someone in a back-of-house area who shouldn't be there: you need to know, and you need to know without recording everyone else.
How ALLIE does it
Room-level awareness with nothing to look at.
ALLIE's privacy architecture is not a policy layered on top of a camera system. It is how the hardware works.
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Sense with radar and sound
mmWave radar in the switch measures reflections from people and objects: position, motion, posture, even breathing. Acoustic sensing recognizes event signatures such as a fall or breaking glass.
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Interpret inside the fixture
On-device models classify what is happening in the room. Raw signals are consumed at the edge and are not what gets transmitted.
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Emit events, not streams
Only structured events and aggregate occupancy leave the room, over encrypted links, to the systems and people you designate.
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Flag what shouldn't be happening
Context such as time of day, zone and routine turns presence into meaning: unauthorized entry, an exit-seeking resident, a room occupied when it should be empty.
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Respond without surveillance
Alerts route by severity to staff, front desk or security; lighting and audible deterrents can respond automatically; incident summaries describe the event, not the people.
Data principles
What we collect, where it goes, and what we refuse to build.
Written for the person who has to sign off on it.
Presence, not identity
Radar resolves that a person is in the room and how they are moving. It does not capture faces, skin or anything a human could recognize.
Processed in the fixture
Signals are interpreted on the device. What leaves the room is an event such as 'occupied', 'fall detected' or 'entry after hours', not a stream.
Events, not recordings
There is no video to store, leak or subpoena. Acoustic sensing listens for the sound of an event, not for words.
Encrypted and scoped
Traffic between fixtures and the operator dashboard is encrypted; access is role-based; retention is configurable per site.
Transparent to occupants
Notices, room signage and opt-out workflows are part of every deployment plan for guests, residents and families.
Built for your compliance program
Exportable audit trails and minimal data collection make it easier to answer privacy, security and regulatory questions.
“The question is not whether a building should know when someone has fallen. It is whether the building needs to watch them to know. It doesn't.”
After-hours security
Volumetric sensing that ignores the cat and flags the intruder.
The same fixtures that watch over residents and guests protect the property when it should be empty, without adding a camera to a single room.
Unauthorized entry
Presence in a room, wing or back-of-house zone outside its schedule, with room-level location.
Exit-seeking & wandering
A memory-care resident leaving a unit at night triggers staff before the door, not after.
Smart routing & deterrence
Alerts by threat level to staff or security; lights and audible responses can act automatically.
Fewer false alarms
Context-aware detection distinguishes people from pets, HVAC drafts and shadows, so a page means something.
Capabilities
Privacy & security capabilities
Camera-free by design
No image sensor exists in the product. There is nothing to cover, disable or audit.
Presence & motion awareness
Occupancy, position, movement patterns and posture from mmWave radar.
Edge processing
Classification happens in the fixture; raw signals stay in the room.
Encrypted, role-based access
Encrypted transport, scoped permissions and configurable retention.
Intrusion & wandering detection
Zone- and schedule-aware alerts for entry, exit-seeking and after-hours presence.
Event-based incident records
Timestamped, room-located summaries suitable for review, with no footage attached.
In practice
What privacy-first looks like on a floor plan.
Senior living & memory care
In a community
- Resident rooms and bathrooms covered for falls and distress with no camera in private space
- Night-time exit-seeking alerts for memory-care wings before a resident reaches an exterior door
- Family-facing transparency: what is sensed, what is stored, who can see it
- Event logs that support incident review without recording residents' lives
Hotels & extended stay
In a property
- A written guest-privacy commitment: no cameras or audio recording in guest rooms, ever
- Occupancy for energy and housekeeping without keycards or door sensors
- Distress detection for a guest alone behind a locked door
- After-hours presence alerts for back-of-house, storage and restricted floors
Next step
Bring privacy questions. We built for them.
Walk us through your compliance requirements and your floor plan; we will show exactly what ALLIE senses, stores and sends.