Iveda adds contactless sleep sensor to senior care kit

Iveda has added a contactless overnight monitoring sensor, Sleep Sense, to its IvedaCare senior living platform, expanding the system's role in overnight health monitoring for older adults.

The sensor monitors heart rate, respiratory rate and sleep patterns without cameras or wearable devices. It also tracks bed presence, detects prolonged bed exits, flags oversleeping and frequent night-time movement, and generates daily sleep reports to support care planning.

The updated IvedaCare kit includes one Sleep Sense sensor, four motion sensors, two door sensors that can also be used on cabinets, including medicine cabinets, and one SOS button for emergency assistance, including fall-related incidents. Sleep Sense also serves as the connection gateway to the wider platform.

Iveda is targeting senior living and ageing-in-place settings, where staff and family members often rely on daytime observations or resident-worn devices to assess changes in health. By adding overnight monitoring, the company aims to give care teams another source of data on changes in routine and physical condition.

Research cited by Iveda links insufficient sleep to nearly half of the leading causes of death. It says changes in sleep quality among older adults can signal shifts in health before those signs become apparent during the day.

David Ly, Chief Executive Officer and founder of Iveda, said the new product is intended to address a gap in senior care monitoring.

"Sleep is one of the earliest places health changes show up - and one of the last places senior care thinks to look," Ly said.

He said passive monitoring can help make overnight data part of routine care.

"When you can monitor it passively every night, without waking anyone or asking them to wear a device, you start to see patterns that can surface a health change weeks before it becomes a crisis. That's what we've built into the new IvedaCare Kit, and it's what senior care has needed for a long time," Ly said.

Care platform

IvedaCare is positioned as an ambient monitoring system for private living quarters. Nursing staff and caregivers can use a dashboard showing room-level wellness scores, while data is also available in real time through the IvedaCare app.

Iveda says the platform has scientific validation and backing from the US National Institute on Ageing. It also named UC Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, Georgia Tech, Emory Brain Health Centre and the National Science Foundation as research partners connected to the broader work around the platform.

That academic backing forms part of Iveda's effort to differentiate IvedaCare in a market where senior care providers are weighing the trade-off between closer observation and resident privacy. A contactless sensor system avoids cameras in bedrooms and removes the need for older residents to remember to wear or charge a device.

At the same time, providers in senior housing and home care are under pressure to spot early signs of deterioration before they lead to hospital admissions or emergency interventions. Overnight patterns such as changes in breathing, restlessness or repeated bed exits can be important markers for carers, particularly for residents at risk of falls, infection or worsening chronic conditions.

Pricing

The complete IvedaCare kit is available now for USD $500, with a monthly subscription of USD $50. The subscription includes access to daily insights, sleep reporting, real-time alerts and care analytics.

The addition of Sleep Sense broadens Iveda's push beyond its better-known work in surveillance technology and smart city systems into healthcare monitoring. The company has been developing products that use sensors and artificial intelligence across public safety, security, elderly care, energy efficiency and environmental applications.

Ly pointed to the role of external research support in that healthcare effort.

"IvedaCare is proud to have some of the most respected names in aging research behind this work," he said.

"It reflects what we've always believed: that technology can and should play a meaningful role in how we care for older adults," Ly said.