Safeguards
A monitoring product for people who cannot always consent to being watched needs firm limits.
These are not gaps in the roadmap. They are the boundary the product is designed around, agreed on before a single feature was built. Click any safeguard to see exactly what it means in practice.
Kinocular reads body movement and posture rather than faces, since recognizing how someone is moving does not require knowing who they are. There is no facial database, no identity matching, and no way to search the system by who appears in frame.
It can flag a movement pattern as, for example, possible seizure-like movement or repeated head-banging, but it will never state that the patient is having a seizure. That judgment stays with caregivers and clinicians, who have context Kinocular does not.
Kinocular notifies. It never contacts emergency services on its own. The caregiver always decides what happens next — whether that's checking in person, calling a clinician, or calling 911 themselves.
It runs as a software layer on a camera the family already owns, rather than another device to install, charge, or replace. No new hardware means no new point of failure and no new cost to maintain.
The pause-and-notify rule
Because facial recognition is out of scope, Kinocular has no reliable way to tell two people apart. The moment more than one person enters the frame, scanning pauses and caregivers are told monitoring is paused. Nothing recorded during that time enters the patient's history or pattern data, so the system never learns from, or mistakes, the wrong person for the patient. Monitoring resumes automatically the instant the patient is alone again, which is also when they are most at risk.