Ethical Saving combines affordable smartwatches with radio-based room sensing into an offline-capable monitoring system for nursing homes, hospitals and emergency services. Stored locally, privacy-compliant, affordable.
Operated by Ethical Saving gUG (non-profit) · DACH region · idea & pilot stage
Care facilities and wards work at their limit. Falls go unnoticed, vital signs are only checked occasionally, and valuable information is lost in the handover from emergency services to the hospital.
Wearable vital signs and wearable-free room sensing — brought together on a local server inside the facility.
Low-cost wristbands capture heart rate, SpO₂ and movement. A plugin architecture supports different models in a vendor-neutral way — no lock-in.
From the reflections of existing WiFi signals the system detects presence, movement and falls — with no wearable on the body.
All data converges on a small appliance inside the facility. Offline-first, no cloud requirement, full control of the data.
The smartwatch measures vital signs; WiFi signals reveal movement and presence patterns in the room.
One ESP32-S3 radio bridge per room reads the watch over Bluetooth and forwards everything via WiFi.
The local server stores data, detects anomalies and raises a notification when needed.
Care staff see each resident's status in the dashboard and receive hints — no diagnosis, no treatment decision.
Four layers, a clear data flow — encrypted, local, with no cloud requirement.
We only promise what the technology reliably delivers today. Transparency is part of our mission.
Night-time fall alerts and continuous presence detection relieve staff and increase resident safety.
More continuous vital monitoring on general wards, without wiring up every patient permanently.
Capture vital signs from first contact and pass them through seamlessly at hospital handover — closing the handover gap.
As a non-profit company we measure ourselves not by returns but by relief for care staff and quality of life for older people. Surpluses flow back, in line with our mission, into development and into serving non-profit providers.
We rely on public funding, foundations and impact capital — not on classic venture capital with exit expectations.
Are you a provider, hospital, municipality or funding partner? Talk to us.
We are looking for facilities for subsidised pilot projects. Together we show how monitoring can relieve care work — without extra burden.
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