Independent living

Staying in your own home, for longer.

For older Australians and people with disability — and for the family and carers who worry from another suburb.

Most people do not want a nurse call button. They want to stay where they are, without their children lying awake.

An older woman in her living room with a Smart U Home device on the table, labels around it for safety alerts, reminders, transport and voice support in her language
Concept image — final product design may change.

The worries, and what the system actually does.

“Has she been up today?”

Sensors around the home notice movement and daily rhythm — the kettle, the bathroom, the front door — and build a picture of an ordinary day. When something falls outside that routine, the system can alert the people who have been given access. No camera in the bedroom, no live video feed of anyone’s life.

“What if she falls and the pendant is on the bench?”

Radar-style sensing works through steam and in the dark, and it does not need to be worn, charged or remembered. It reads the shape of a room, not a face. A fall in the bathroom at 2am should not depend on someone remembering to wear a pendant.

“She will never use an app.”

Then she does not have to. Speaking normally, in the room she is standing in, is the whole interface. No phone to unlock, no menu to learn, no password. The app is there for family and carers when they need it; she does not need one to use the home.

“I live three hours away.”

Family and carers can be given their own view — and she decides who gets it, and what they can see. Oversight is granted, not assumed, and it can be taken back at any time.

Who this is built for

Older Australians

Living alone or with a partner, wanting to stay put rather than move into care.

People with disability

Voice control of doors, lights, blinds and appliances for people for whom a switch on the wall is not a given.

Family & carers

A quiet daily reassurance instead of a phone call that has to be answered.

Care and NDIS providers

Being designed to support people across a portfolio of homes, with a written record of what the system did and when.

Dignity by design

Sensing, not surveillance.

A system that helps a vulnerable person has to be built to a higher standard than one that turns on a light. These are constraints we are building into the system, not promises added later in a brochure.

01

No cameras in private rooms

Bedrooms and bathrooms are sensed by radar, which reads a shape and a fall, never a picture.

02

She decides who can see

Every carer or family view is granted by the resident and can be withdrawn by the resident.

03

Nothing spends money on its own

Anything with a cost or a consequence stays within permissions and limits set by the resident.

04

Every action is written down

A timestamped record of what the system did and why, designed to support review by a family or an auditor.

The system is being designed to treat health and care information as sensitive information under Australian privacy requirements.

Where we are up to

We would rather be straight with you than sell you a rendering. Here is what exists today.

Working now

Speaking to the house and being understood, entirely on site. Control of real devices across brands. A working phone app. Household data kept inside the home by default, with access controlled by the household.

In build

The self-setup wizard, installer tooling, and the carer and provider dashboard.

Next stage

Real-home pilot deployment, service integrations and the tools needed to support rollout.