Computer vision for UK care homes, clinics, and veterinary practices.
The overnight shift can't be in every room at once. The post-op kennel can't be checked every ten minutes. The dementia ward can't have a member of staff at every bedside through the night. I build vision systems that watch calmly, privately, with faces blurred, and alert the on-duty staff when something needs them. Built with safeguarding and GDPR at the centre.
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What's actually happening on your overnight shift right now.
Two staff for thirty residents. Most of the night is fine. Some of it isn't. A fall in a corridor at 3am is found at 5am. A resident wandering out of bed is caught on the next round, twenty minutes later. A kennel patient post-surgery is checked hourly because that's what the rota allows, not because that's what the welfare needs.
The cameras in the corridors and the recovery rooms see all of it. They just don't say anything. A vision system gives the cameras a voice, quietly, only when it matters, with the privacy controls built in from the first day of the build.
What I build for care homes, clinics, and veterinary practices.
Fall detection
Care homes, particularly overnight. Recognises a fall, distinct from sitting, kneeling, or lying down voluntarily, and alerts the duty phone within seconds. Faces blurred at the camera.
Quoted on scope.
Fixed price in writing before any work starts. Hardware, on-site installation, and any opted-in subscriptions quoted separately at cost.
Bed-exit alerts
For dementia care, post-surgical wards, and residents with high fall risk. The system knows when a specific resident has left their bed, and alerts staff. Far quieter than bed sensors, no contact required.
Quoted on scope.
Fixed price in writing before any work starts. Hardware, on-site installation, and any opted-in subscriptions quoted separately at cost.
Animal monitoring overnight
Kennels, stables, post-op vet wards. Flags distress behaviour (pacing, head-pressing, repeated rising and lying, vocalisation patterns) and alerts the on-call vet or nurse.
Quoted on scope.
Fixed price in writing before any work starts. Hardware, on-site installation, and any opted-in subscriptions quoted separately at cost.
Visitor and staff flow
For larger facilities. Knows who's in which area without badge-tapping. Useful for safeguarding audits and infection control reviews.
Quoted on scope.
Fixed price in writing before any work starts. Hardware, on-site installation, and any opted-in subscriptions quoted separately at cost.
A few of the situations this system handles.
A care home with two staff on the overnight shift covering thirty-plus residents. The system watches the corridors and chosen rooms for falls, sends an alert to the duty phone with a clip when one happens, and faces are blurred at the first processing step before anything is saved or sent.
A dementia ward or post-surgical area with high-risk residents. The system knows when a resident has left their bed at an unusual time and alerts staff without contact sensors or wires.
A veterinary practice with post-op patients in recovery overnight. The system watches the recovery kennels for distress behaviours and alerts the on-call vet or nurse before a small problem becomes a big one.
A larger care group with multiple homes. Each home runs locally with its own staff phone alerts. Group-level data is available to the registered manager and the DPO with appropriate access controls.
Why this, why me.
Faces blurred from the camera.
Not "blurred in the dashboard." Blurred at the point of capture. The staff phone, the alert email, the clip review: none of them ever sees an unblurred resident. This is engineered, not an afterthought.
GDPR and CQC-aware from the start.
Every build includes the documentation your manager and inspector will ask for: what's collected, why, where it lives, who can see it, the retention period, and the data protection impact assessment.
Quiet by design.
The system doesn't alert on routine events like staff rounds, residents shifting in chairs, or normal corridor traffic. It alerts on the things that need a response.
The code is yours.
No subscription, no cloud lock-in, no surprise pricing in year two. The system stays on your hardware.
Fixed price, in writing.
A call, then a build.
We talk
Thirty minutes. You walk me through your facility, the night-shift challenges, what's already in place. We discuss safeguarding, consent, CQC, and what the system will and won't do.
I build
Four to six weeks, including the safeguarding documentation phase.
Every quote breaks out the build fee, hardware, install labour, and any subscriptions in writing before you commit. One total, every line visible.
The things people ask before we start.
Is this CQC-compliant?
The system can be configured to support CQC requirements, but compliance is always about your processes, not just the technology. I provide the technical documentation; your manager and data protection officer review and approve. Equivalent regulators apply outside England (Care Inspectorate in Scotland, CIW in Wales, RQIA in Northern Ireland, and various bodies across Europe and Morocco). The principles are similar everywhere.
What about resident consent?
Standard CCTV in communal areas is covered by your existing care home protocols. In-room cameras require specific consent, both yours and the resident's, or their power of attorney where the resident lacks capacity. We work through this carefully in the scoping call and provide the documentation you need.
Will this replace overnight staff?
No, and any vendor saying otherwise is wrong. The system makes existing staff faster to respond. Two staff overnight stay two staff overnight. They get to the falls quicker, and they spend less time on routine corridor checks because the system handles the watching.
What if the alert is wrong?
Every alert is a still image and a short clip, reviewed by the staff member before any action. The system suggests, the staff member decides. False positives are handled by acknowledgement and fed back into the system to reduce over time.
Where does the footage live?
On your hardware. Default retention is 30 days for clips, longer if needed for safeguarding investigations. Off-site backup is available where required but not standard. Faces are blurred at the first processing step, before any alert, clip, or log is created, so what you store and what staff see is already de-identified.
What about veterinary patients?
Animal welfare monitoring uses different models from human monitoring. The system reads distress behaviours, recovery patterns, eating and drinking. We discuss your species mix, ward layout, and the questions you want answered on the call.
How quickly can it be running in my facility?
Four to six weeks for a single facility, including the safeguarding documentation phase. Multi-facility groups run faster per site after the first because the policies and configuration are reused. A six-home group typically completes inside ten to fourteen weeks. We never rush the documentation, because that's what your inspector will look at.
Tell me what you need built.
Email me a sentence about your facility. I reply the same day.
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