Hearth uses four small sensors to quietly learn your parent's daily routine and alert you when something changes. Plain-English summaries three times a day. Notifications when it matters. Everything processed locally in their home - no cloud, no cameras, no microphones.
Your data never leaves homeProcessed locally, always private
Normal routine today
Wake time, activity, and outings trending down over 8 days
Wake time drifting later (avg 8:20am, was 7:08am). Activity down 35% over 8 days. Outings dropped to 0.4/day. Night bathroom visits up from 1.2 to 2.4. Pattern consistent with possible UTI or functional change. Worth raising with the GP.
If you have a parent living alone, you probably check in more than they realise. Did she get up? Has he eaten? Is the heating on?
You ring every few days. She says she's fine. But a phone call only covers so much, and there are 23 other hours in the day. Millions of UK families have the same thought in the back of their mind.
Older people live alone in the UK
People over 65 will have a fall this year
Of over-75s say they feel lonely sometimes
Average lie time after a fall when living alone
Excess winter deaths in England and Wales annually, often linked to cold homes
Your care data stays in the home. Processed locally. Never uploaded to the cloud.
One incident isn't a crisis. What matters is pattern - a gradual change over weeks or months.
Post unopened, bins not taken out, dishes piling up.
House feels chilly, heating not managed well.
Moving more slowly, avoiding stairs, mentioning a fall.
Calling less, fewer activities, less engaged.
Missed medications, doors unlocked, meals skipped.
More frequent bathroom visits, restless nights, confusion.
No technical knowledge needed. Everything arrives pre-configured and tested. Your parent doesn't need to learn anything or change their routine.
Every Hearth arrives with four sensors already paired to the hub. Kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and front door. Nothing to choose, nothing to configure.
Plug the hub into the router. Stick each labelled sensor in its room. Scan the QR code with your phone. 15 minutes, start to finish.
Hearth learns the routine within days. You get three plain-English summaries a day, a weekly trend report, and alerts only when something seems off.
Add siblings, a partner, or anyone in the care circle. Everyone gets their own notifications and sees the same dashboard.
Each sensor is completely wireless, runs on a single coin-cell battery for years, and is small enough to blend into any room. No wiring, no charging, no maintenance.
Each sensor runs on a single CR2450 coin-cell battery. Typical lifespan is 2-3 years. When it's time, you just pop in a new one - no tools needed.
Zigbee mesh networking with no WiFi dependency. Sensors communicate directly with the hub on a dedicated low-power frequency. Range covers any standard home.
Adhesive-backed, no drilling required. Stick them on a shelf, a doorframe, or a wall. Reposition any time. Every sensor arrives pre-labelled for its room.
Small enough to go unnoticed. No flashing lights, no sounds, no visible technology. Your parent doesn't need to know it's there - and most forget within a day.
Green banner means everything's normal. Hearth only reaches out when the routine breaks. Designed to be read in five seconds.
Normal routine today
Wake time, activity, and outings trending down over 8 days
Wake time drifting later (avg 8:20am, was 7:08am). Activity down 35% over 8 days. Outings dropped to 0.4/day. Night bathroom visits up from 1.2 to 2.4. Pattern consistent with possible UTI or functional change. Worth raising with the GP.
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Most care tech uploads everything to the cloud. Hearth is different. All sensor data is processed and stored locally on the hub - the small box sitting next to the router. Our servers never see it.
All sensor data is processed and stored on the Hearth hub in your parent's home. Raw care data never leaves the house. Not to us, not to anyone.
The hub calls out to show you the dashboard - but nothing from the internet can reach in. No settings to change on the router. No way for anyone to connect to the hub uninvited.
Our cloud service handles your account and software updates. It never sees which room Mum is in, when she woke up, or what her day looked like.
Every remote diagnostic access is logged and visible to you. You can see exactly who accessed the hub and when. Transparency isn't optional - it's how we built it.
No cameras. No microphones. No GPS. No wearables. Nothing to wear, charge, or remember.
Every Hearth arrives pre-configured, paired, and tested. Plug it in, scan the QR code, done.
Everything included. Nothing to buy upfront.
Join the waitlist - we'll let you know when Hearth is available.
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When you're done, we collect the hardware, refurbish it, and redeploy it to another family. Nothing goes to waste.
Absolutely not. Hearth uses only motion sensors, a presence sensor, and a door sensor. No cameras, no microphones, no video, and no audio of any kind.
Four rooms: kitchen (motion), bathroom (motion), bedroom (presence - can tell if someone is there even when sitting still), and the front door (open/close). From these four signals, Hearth builds a complete picture of the daily routine - wake time, room visits, outings, bathroom patterns, and sleep.
Nothing at all. The sensors work passively. No buttons, nothing to wear, nothing to charge. They simply live their life as normal.
All sensor data is processed and stored locally on the Hearth hub in your parent's home. Nothing is uploaded to the cloud. Our central service handles your account and billing, but it never sees the care data. The dashboard is accessed through a secure outbound-only tunnel - no ports are opened on the home router.
Three times a day, Hearth generates a plain-English summary of the day so far. For example: "Mum had a quiet morning - she got up around 8:30, a bit later than usual, and spent time in the kitchen. She went out mid-morning. Everything looks normal." You also get a weekly trend report that spots gradual changes over time.
£19.99/month covers everything - the hub, all four sensors, the dashboard, AI summaries, the app, and ongoing updates. There's no upfront hardware cost. The minimum commitment is 6 months. When you cancel, we send a pre-paid label to collect the hardware, refurbish it, and pass it on to another family.
Yes. The primary account holder can invite other family members by email. Each person gets their own app login and can set their own notification preferences. The whole care circle sees the same dashboard.
Yes, the home needs broadband. The hub connects via ethernet cable (included). Sensors connect wirelessly via Zigbee, which is separate from WiFi and very reliable.
About 15 minutes. Plug the hub into the router, stick each labelled sensor in its room (adhesive, no drilling), and scan the QR code on the hub with your phone. Everything is already paired before it arrives.
The hub keeps monitoring and storing data locally. When the connection returns, the dashboard catches up. You might miss real-time notifications during the outage, but no data is lost.
Hearth was founded by a doctor with experience in elderly care and geriatric medicine. The detection logic is grounded in clinical research on how changes in daily routines - sleep patterns, kitchen activity, bathroom visits, mobility - signal changes in health before they become emergencies. Built in the UK.