An extra set of eyes, without replacing yours.
Kinocular connects to a camera a family already has and watches for what a caregiver cannot always catch in person: a patient leaving the room unsupervised, a fall, or a repeated behavior such as head-banging. When something is flagged, the caregiver is notified right away, with enough detail to decide what to do next. Kinocular does not diagnose, and it never contacts emergency services on its own.
The problem
A caregiver cannot watch every moment, and a camera alone will not tell them when to look.
Family caregivers looking after someone with a significant developmental, behavioral, or cognitive condition are often expected to provide supervision through most of the day, even though watching someone continuously is not realistic. A security camera or baby monitor does not close that gap by itself — someone still has to be watching it to notice that anything is wrong. The numbers below are why that gap matters.
Had attempted to elope after age four
In a 2012 survey of 1,218 children with autism spectrum disorder, nearly half had tried to leave a safe space unsupervised at least once. Elopement, known more plainly as wandering, is not a rare edge case — for many families it is a routine fear.
Happened from the child's own home
This is not a public-space problem that only shows up on an outing. Three in four departures happened from the exact setting Kinocular is built to monitor: the home, where a caregiver assumes a closed door or a quiet room means safety.
Is long enough for real danger to occur
Once a child had wandered off, the average time away was 41.5 minutes — long enough for a traffic incident or drowning to occur, and both were common outcomes in the same survey. Every minute without an alert is a minute a caregiver does not know to start looking.
Among individuals with autism were injury-related
An analysis of United States death records from 1999 to 2014 found injury accounted for more than a quarter of deaths in this population — a far higher share than in the general public, and one that elopement and fall-related injuries contribute directly to.
Of self-injurious behavior in children with ASD
A population-based study of 8,065 children with autism spectrum disorder found self-injury — repeated head-banging among the most visible forms — present in more than a quarter of cases. Kinocular is built to recognize this pattern specifically, not just departures and falls.
Kinocular is built around these two risks specifically: a patient leaving a monitored space, and visible self-injury such as repeated head-banging. Read the full evidence behind the product →
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