Healthcare

Helpmate

Wearable safety and tracking for seniors, with shared caregiver alerts.

About

Connected wearable and item-tracker ecosystem that keeps seniors safe and caregivers in the loop.

Problem: A wearer may be unable to press a help button after a fall.
How it works: The wearable uses on-device accelerometry and an on-board model to classify falls, then sends an LTE cloud alert.
Result: Caregivers can be notified of detected fall events.
Why: Detection is designed to work without requiring action from the wearer in the moment.

Problem: Caregivers need to know about unexpected departures or arrivals without continuous location noise.
How it works: Caregivers configure per-wearer geofenced zones, radii, and quiet hours; the system alerts on relevant crossings.
Result: The care circle receives fewer, more relevant safe-zone alerts.
Why: The product emphasizes event-based location pings rather than a continuous location trail.

Problem: Multiple family members and aides can otherwise rely on separate accounts, dashboards, or shared passwords.
How it works: A primary caregiver invites up to five additional caregivers into a shared timeline with individual accounts.
Result: Up to six caregivers per wearer can see the same alerts, location context, and battery status.
Why: Access is scoped to the care circle and caregiver views are audit logged.

Problem: Keys, wallets, and glasses are easily misplaced.
How it works: A slim item tracker uses Bluetooth and LTE to report a last-seen ping and can chirp from a nearby phone.
Result: Caregivers can help locate commonly misplaced items.
Why: Tracker information appears in the same caregiver app as wearable events.

Problem: Sensitive location and biometric information requires explicit privacy controls.
How it works: Helpmate states that raw sensor streams stay on the wearable, while transmitted data is end-to-end encrypted and caregiver-driven deletion is available.
Result: Families have controlled access, visibility into caregiver views, and a deletion path.
Why: The service limits collection to safety-relevant data and records caregiver access in audit logs.