About Ruby House Alerts
A small team building practical safety tools for families caring for loved ones with dementia at home. Based in Detroit, Michigan.
Our story
Ruby House Alerts grew out of one family's experience caring for an elderly mother with Alzheimer's disease. After several frightening overnight wandering incidents — and after trying nearly every monitoring product on the market — that family realized the off-the-shelf options weren't designed by people who had actually lived through this. The fall detectors produced one false alarm per hour. The cellular pendants required a button press the person could no longer remember to use. The cloud-streaming cameras felt invasive and didn't actually catch the moments that mattered.
So they built their own — a quiet, multi-sensor system that watches for the specific events caregivers actually need to know about: leaving the bed at night, opening the bedroom door toward the hallway, a fall pattern in the camera frame, an unusual stillness that doesn't match the normal sleeping rhythm.
It worked. Word spread. Today Ruby House Alerts serves a small, hand-selected group of families across the United States who want the same peace of mind without the off-the-shelf compromises.
What we believe
Caregivers know best
The family member sleeping in the next room knows more about what "normal" looks like than any algorithm. Our system is designed to assist that judgment, not replace it.
Privacy is not negotiable
Recordings stay on the home network. We do not upload video to cloud services, sell data, or train models on family footage. Only event alerts leave the house.
False alarms erode trust
A safety system that cries wolf gets ignored. We measure ourselves on the ratio of true alerts to false ones and work continuously to push it higher.
Aging at home is worth fighting for
Memory care facilities have a role, but most families would prefer to keep a loved one at home as long as it's safe. We exist to extend that window.
The team
Ruby House Alerts is run by a small group of engineers, clinicians, and family caregivers based in the United States. We deliberately stay small — every family we serve gets direct support from someone who understands the system end-to-end.
We are not VC-backed. We do not have growth targets. We add families when we have capacity to support them well, and we say no when we don't.
How we are different
Most senior-monitoring products fall into two camps: the medical-alert pendant (push the button when you fall) and the cloud-streaming camera (watch through a phone app). Both are designed for the person being monitored to actively participate — which is exactly the problem in advanced dementia.
Ruby House Alerts is passive. The loved one does not have to do anything, remember anything, or wear anything. The system watches, and when something matters, the family hears about it within seconds.