The short answer
Lifeguard Health watches routines, not falls: Wi-Fi motion sensors, door, fridge and bathroom sensors, and a 24/7 alert center whose agents follow up on long stretches without movement. By its own FAQ, it does not detect falls. Some Griswold offices offer it alongside Sensi.AI. The alternatives depend on what you want covered: for a fall and someone on the floor, Senecta, which senses heat and sound, asks the client first and then calls your agency and the family; for routine and bathroom trends, StackCare; for listening-based insights, Sensi.AI; for vital signs at night, Circadia Health.
At a glance
| Lifeguard Health | Senecta | |
|---|---|---|
| How it senses | Wi-Fi motion sensing, no camera or microphone, plus door, fridge and bathroom humidity sensors | Low-resolution thermal sensing plus sound; no ordinary camera |
| Built for | Home care agencies and care managers; also a version for families | Clients in their own homes, through home care agencies |
| What it notices | Long inactivity and changes in routine over hours and days; by its own FAQ, it does not detect falls | A possible fall in the room; it asks the client first, then calls the people in the response plan |
| What is kept | Motion events and activity insights; no audio or video | Nothing, except the heat images and audio of an event classified as a possible fall |
| Who answers alerts | Its 24/7 Alert Center reviews alerts and follows each client's care plan; nurses write reports every two weeks | Your agency and the family's emergency contacts, by phone; no monitoring centre |
| Setup and connection | A kit of plug-in and stick-on sensors with its own cellular router, installed by agency staff | Plug-in pods with built-in cellular; nothing to mount or join to the home's Wi-Fi |
| Whose brand families see | Co-branded: the agency's service “in partnership with Lifeguard Health” | Your agency's |
Lifeguard Health facts from its website, FAQ for home care agencies, FAQ, partner overview, a Griswold office's blog, as read on October 21, 2026. Senecta's from our service agreement. Check each company's current terms before you decide.
How each one works
Lifeguard Health follows routines. Its kit puts a Wi-Fi motion sensor in each main room, sensors on the doors and the fridge and a humidity sensor in the bathroom, linked to a hub with its own cellular router. Over hours and days it learns the client's routine and flags a change: no movement for too long, a morning that does not start, more trips to the bathroom, which it treats as a possible sign of a urinary infection. Its FAQ is plain that it is not a fall detection system: it may notice a lack of movement that could mean something is wrong.
Senecta looks at heat and listens for events. A low-resolution thermal sensor sees a person as a warm shape, and a microphone listens for the sounds that go with a fall. The pair is built for one question, whether someone went down and stayed down, and the pod asks the client “Are you okay?” before anyone is called. If the answer is not a clear yes, it calls your agency and the family's emergency contacts in the order you agreed. How Senecta detects a possible fall explains the method and its limits.
What is kept, and the consent conversation
Neither records conversations. Lifeguard collects motion events and activity insights, with no audio or video. Senecta's thermal sensor sees a person as a warm shape and its microphone's sound is analysed as it happens; nothing is kept except the heat images and audio of a possible fall. Families should hear both answers before they consent. Our security and privacy page sets out exactly what Senecta keeps.
Who answers when something happens
Lifeguard puts people between the sensors and your team: its 24/7 Alert Center reviews alerts and follows each client's care plan, contacting the client, the family or the agency, and licensed nurses send a wellness report every two weeks. Senecta has no monitoring centre. When it notices a possible fall, the pod asks the client first and then calls your agency and the family's emergency contacts, in the order you agreed, until someone answers. The two answer different questions: is the routine changing, and is someone on the floor right now.
Other alternatives to Lifeguard Health
The other products agency owners most often name to us, and how each one works.
| Product | How it works | Built for |
|---|---|---|
| Sensi.AI | Audio pods that listen in the home and send insights and alerts to the agency's care team | Home care agencies and franchise networks |
| Pontosense | 60 GHz radar in a corner of the room; falls, activity and vital signs, alerts by app | Home care agencies and senior living; Comfort Keepers' Comfort360 SafeGuard |
| Circadia Health | Radar beside the bed for breathing, heart rate and bed exits, reviewed by its clinical team | Nursing and post-acute care; offered by some Senior Helpers offices |
| StackCare | Battery motion and door sensors that learn a routine and send app alerts when it changes | Home care agencies, senior living and families |
| Cherish | A plug-in hub with radar that senses through walls, microphones and a speaker; alerts the family and its response center | Families, through security dealers and AT&T; a wall version for facilities |
| CarePredict | A wrist band with room beacons: possible falls, activity trends, a help button and two-way voice | Senior living; families buy it as SilverKin |
| SafelyYou | AI cameras in residents' rooms; its remote team confirms each fall for community staff | Assisted living and memory care communities |
| Vayyar Care | Radar on the wall or ceiling, fitted by installers; alerts go to facility staff | Senior living and care facilities |
| Butlr | Thermal sensors on the ceiling, with no camera or microphone; flags bed exits, wandering and possible falls for staff | Senior living communities, in pilots in 2026 |
| Nobi | A smart ceiling light that takes infrared images; it asks the person, a reviewer checks the image, then staff are alerted | Senior living and care homes |
| TeiaCare | An optical sensor above each bed with infrared night vision; alerts staff to bed exits and falls | Nursing homes, mainly in Italy |
All of them compared on one page: Compare.
When Lifeguard Health is the better choice
- You want routine and bathroom trends over days, with nurse-written reports to share with families.
- You want a staffed alert center to follow up first, so your team is called less often.
- Your franchise network already offers it, as some Griswold offices do.
When Senecta is the better choice
- The families' first worry is a fall, and you want it noticed in minutes, not as a change over hours.
- You want the client asked “Are you okay?” before anyone is called.
- You want the service under your agency's name alone.
- You want pods that plug in, with nothing to stick on doors or the fridge.
Questions agency owners ask
What are the alternatives to Lifeguard Health for home care agencies?
It depends on what you want covered. For a fall: Senecta, which senses heat and sound, asks the client first, then calls your agency and the family. For routine and bathroom trends: StackCare. For listening-based insights: Sensi.AI. For vital signs at night: Circadia Health.
Does Lifeguard Health detect falls?
No. Its own FAQ says it is not a fall detection system: it may notice a lack of movement that could indicate something is wrong, but it does not directly detect falls.
Does Lifeguard use cameras or microphones?
No. It uses Wi-Fi motion sensing and door, fridge and humidity sensors, with no audio or video recording.
Who answers Senecta's alerts?
The people in each home's response plan: your agency and the family's emergency contacts, called in the order you agree. Senecta has no monitoring centre.
Next step
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Book your agency demoSenecta makes one of the products compared here, so read our description of ourselves with that in mind. We have described Lifeguard Health and the other products from their own public pages and their partners', as read on October 21, 2026, and linked each one; their offers may change. Senecta is not an emergency service or a staffed monitoring centre, does not replace in-person care, and no system detects every fall.