Why families choose us
Bedroom-First Monitoring
The bedroom is where overnight wandering begins. We sense the moment a loved one leaves the bed — quietly, without cameras pointing at them while they sleep.
Family Text Alerts
Alerts go to whoever's on call — primary caregiver, adult children, neighbors — by SMS, WhatsApp, or app push. Silent during quiet hours, loud when it matters.
Exit Detection
Door and motion patterns tell us when someone is heading toward an outside door at 3 AM. Families get a 30-second warning, not a sheriff's call hours later.
AI-Augmented Review
Our system uses computer vision to distinguish a loved one rolling over from a fall. False alarms are a top complaint with other monitors — we work hard to eliminate them.
Aging in Place
Memory care facilities cost $7,000+ per month. Ruby House Alerts helps families safely extend the time a loved one can stay in their own home.
Privacy You Control
Video stays on the home network — never streamed to a cloud service. Only event alerts leave the house. Families decide who can see what.
Built from lived experience
Ruby House Alerts was founded after our own family went through the long, exhausting search for a way to keep an elderly parent with Alzheimer's safely at home — and found nothing that worked the way a caregiver actually needs. The off-the-shelf "fall detectors" produced one false alarm an hour. The expensive "smart home for seniors" packages required a tablet she couldn't operate. The home-monitoring camera apps demanded the family stare at a phone screen all night.
So we built our own. Then we shared it with two other families. Then five. Read our story →
Who we serve
Ruby House Alerts is for families caring for an aging loved one at home — most often with Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia, or other forms of cognitive decline. We also serve families managing post-stroke recovery, Parkinson's, and the general frailty that comes with very advanced age.
Most of our families are adult children caring for a parent, or spouses caring for a partner. Many have a paid caregiver during the day and rely on us to cover overnight when they can't be at the house themselves.
Recent from the newsroom
A daily-refreshed digest of dementia research, eldercare policy reporting, and practical caregiving guidance — drawn from sources we trust. Updated Sunday, May 24, 2026 at 5:09 AM -05.
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