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MetaVigil

Quiet watch,
always there.

A small device on the nightstand. The whole story on your phone: fall detection, breathing rate, heart rate, presence. No cameras. No wearables on her body.

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Built by 1PuttHealth. Designed with families and caregivers, not at them.

A warm bedroom at golden hour. A small white ceramic puck sits on the nightstand beside a glass of water; faint sage-teal waves radiate softly from it.

What it does

Five quiet signals. One calm overview.

The sensor sits on the nightstand. It reads the way ordinary WiFi signals bend around a body. That gives us enough to know, in plain English, how she's doing.

A small white ceramic puck the size of a teacup on a light oak nightstand, with a folded reading-glasses case, a paperback, and a glass of water beside it. Warm afternoon light.
One puck per room. Plug it in, connect it to WiFi, leave it alone.

  • Fall detection

    If she falls, you know within seconds — on your phone, your watch, by text. Not maybe. Not eventually.

  • Breathing rate

    Continuous, no chest strap, no wristband. We surface the trend — last night, last week — not the per-second noise.

  • Heart rate

    Pulled from the same ambient signals. You see daily rhythm and weekly trend, the way a clinician would read it.

  • Presence & motion

    In the room or out, quiet or moving. The gentle background signal that makes everything else legible.

  • Sleep patterns

    When she goes down, how often she wakes, how restless she was. Big-picture trends, not a sleep score.

The apps

The piece that connects you to her.

The sensor does the sensing. The phone is where you actually feel the value — the moment your day gets a little quieter because you already know Mom's morning went fine.

An iPhone held in a hand showing the MetaVigil caregiver dashboard — a calm sage-teal interface listing resident cards with current status.
iPhone — the hub

Always with you.

The MetaVigil app for iOS 17+. Where you check in, where you respond, where you trust the system enough to stop worrying.

  • Live tab — where she is right now and how she is
  • Resident timeline — last 24 hours at a glance
  • Alerts — falls, vitals out of pattern, prolonged absence
  • Two-tap disposition — confirm, dismiss, escalate
An Apple Watch on a slim wrist on a wooden table. The face shows a calm message: Mom — quiet, breathing 14, present.
Apple Watch — the glance

Five-second check-in.

Lift your wrist. Mom — quiet, breathing 14, present. That's all it ever needs to say. When something matters, a critical alert breaks through.

  • Glanceable status complication
  • Critical-alert push that bypasses Do Not Disturb
  • Quick acknowledge from the wrist
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Android — coming Q3 2026

For everyone else.

Not every daughter has an iPhone. Android arrives in the third quarter of 2026 with the full family-side experience. Join the early-access list and we'll let you know the week it ships.

  • Full family-side parity
  • Native Material design — not a wrapped iOS app
  • Same Apple Sign-in or Google account

Why ambient

The two old options. And a third.

Cameras feel like surveillance. Wearables only work when she's wearing them. Ambient sensing is the third thing — present without being in the way.

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MetaVigil Cameras Wearables
Sees how she's doing Always on, no setup Yes, with all the trade-offs Only when she remembers
Respects her dignity No camera. No mic. No record of what she did. Records the bathroom too A bracelet that says "you might fall"
Works at 3 a.m. Same as 3 p.m. Needs light Off the wrist for the night
Tells you something useful Real signals, not a video feed to scrub You watch the footage. After. Steps and beeps

How it works

Three things, in three minutes.

Setup is genuinely simple — we worked at that. The harder engineering is on our side.

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  1. Plug it in

    Set a small white puck on her nightstand. One outlet, one minute. The app walks you through connecting it to her WiFi.

  2. It listens to the room

    Not to voices. To the way ordinary WiFi signals bend around a body. From that we read presence, motion, breathing, heart rate, falls.

  3. You see it on your phone

    A calm dashboard, and a notification when it matters. Your Apple Watch buzzes if she falls. That's the whole loop.

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For families

She's an hour away. You can't be there every morning.

MetaVigil can — quietly, in the background, telling you exactly what you'd want to know. We'll talk through her setup together and put together a plan that fits her home.

What we'll set up together

  • Two sensors for the rooms that matter most
  • iPhone app and Apple Watch glance
  • Android coming Q3 2026
  • Fall detection, vitals, presence, sleep patterns
  • Self-install — about 10 minutes
  • Real humans on email when you need us
Talk to us about your family See how it works first

For facilities

Three nodes per room. Less guesswork on the floor.

MetaVigil sits alongside your call-light system. Your team still does what they do — we just give them a head start. We come on-site, survey the floor, and tailor a pilot that fits your community.

What a deployment looks like

  • Multi-node deployment per resident room
  • Staff dashboard with shift-handover view
  • iPhone alerts for on-call staff
  • Apple Watch critical alerts for floor leads
  • Audit log + permissioned data exports
  • Integration with your existing nurse-call when it makes sense
  • On-site survey and install support
Talk to us about your community Email hello@metavigil.care
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Who's behind this

A small team that builds tools for healthcare.

MetaVigil is a 1PuttHealth venture. We're a small group that has been building practical digital products for healthcare for years — integration engines, clinical scrubbing tools, golf-meets-physio coaching apps. MetaVigil is the work we wanted to do for our own families.

The team has shipped before. We're founder-led, not VC-anxious. We talk to the people we serve and we'd rather take an extra month to get a thing right than ship the slick version of a thing that's still rough.

  • MetaCaddie — AI golf caddie
  • MedHook — healthcare integration engine
  • MedScrub — clinical data hygiene
  • MetaVigil — the one you're reading about

FAQ

A few honest answers.

Is this a medical device?

No. MetaVigil is a wellness support tool. It helps you notice things sooner, but it isn't a substitute for a doctor, a nurse, or a 911 call.

Does it use cameras or microphones?

Neither. Ever. The sensor measures how ordinary WiFi signals bend around a body. There is no audio capture and no video at any point in the system.

How does it know it's a fall and not just dropping a remote?

Falls have a signature — a sudden floor-level pattern that holds longer than a dropped object. We tune for that. If we're ever uncertain, you get a "possible event" alert rather than a confirmed one.

What about her privacy?

We don't identify her by name in our logs. Raw signal data ages out within minutes. You can revoke access from the app at any time and it takes effect immediately.

What happens if the WiFi goes down?

The sensor keeps watching and stores a local buffer. When the network comes back, it catches up. If the outage is longer than a few minutes, the app tells you the system itself needs attention.

Will it work in an older home with thick walls?

Usually, yes. Older buildings sometimes need a small WiFi tune-up first. We figure that out together on the setup call before you commit.

When does the Android app ship?

Third quarter of 2026. You can join the early-access list in the Apps section above.

How does pricing work?

We're in pilot. Pricing depends on whether you're a family with one parent or a facility with eighty residents — so we work it out on a quick call. No surprise costs after the fact.

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Let's figure out what fits.

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