The childcare platform that comes with the cameras.
TinyGuard ships the Raspberry Pi, connects your existing IP cameras, and gives parents live access without adding a DVR vendor. The same dashboard handles billing, care logs, staff activity, and a 30–365-day compliance archive for when a licensor calls. One box, one login, one bill.
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Built for two kinds of care.
Run the daycare that shows its work.
Parents watch live, licensing exports in three clicks, and the price is public — from $99/mo + $2.50/child. Cancel anytime.
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Families see how mom is doing, surveyors get records in three clicks, and every price is up front — software from $199/mo + $8/resident.
For assisted living & residential care →Watch a facility go live.
No IT department needed. Our plug-and-play hardware connects to the TinyGuard cloud automatically.
Plug in the Pi
Power and ethernet — that's it. It provisions itself over an encrypted tunnel. No IT, no ports, no static IP.
Cameras auto-discover
Your existing ONVIF and USB cameras appear in the dashboard on their own. Live to parents in under two seconds.
Care logs write themselves
Check-ins, meals, naps, incidents — captured as they happen, and the AI turns the day into a parent-ready report.
Compliance, already done
Ratios tracked in real time (childcare) or EVV points captured (elder care, $75/mo add-on), a 30–365-day archive ready. When the licensor calls, you export.
Drop in your day. Get back a parent-ready report.
Real, live model — paste a few notes from your morning and see what the parent newsletter would say. No signup, no card, no follow-up email.
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Built because my wife runs a center.
"My wife runs a childcare center. For years I watched her juggle Brightwheel for attendance, QuickBooks for billing, a DVR under the front desk for cameras, and a state CCDF subsidy portal that still uses Internet Explorer. Four systems, four logins, four bills. So I built the thing she actually wanted — one box that does all of it."
One platform. Every tool
your facility needs.
TinyGuard replaces 4–6 disconnected systems with a single vertically integrated platform — edge hardware, cloud video, care management, compliance, billing, and payroll.
Daycare in a Box
Complete childcare facility management — live camera streaming, child-to-staff ratio tracking, family kiosk check-in, care logging, tuition billing, and parent communication — all from one platform.
- Live HLS/WebRTC streaming to parents
- Real-time child-to-staff ratio compliance
- Family kiosk with PIN check-in/out
- Tuition billing via Stripe & ACH
- Payroll-ready timecard export & shift management
- ONVIF auto-discovery & USB camera support
- Named AI assistant, custom context ($50/mo add-on)
Assisted Living & Home Care
Purpose-built for elder care and home care agencies — combining family-viewing video, Medicaid EVV compliance, body camera chain-of-custody, care documentation, and family transparency.
- EVV data capture (6 federal points) — Sandata/HHAeXchange-format exports, optional $75/mo add-on
- Body camera with legal hold & chain-of-custody
- Care log documentation & incident tracking
- AI care alerts (fall & absence detection)
- Family portal with visit logs & care updates
- HIPAA BAA available on request
Built for reliability,
engineered for scale.
Enterprise-grade video infrastructure that runs on a Raspberry Pi. Here's what powers the TinyGuard backbone.
MediaMTX Transcoding
RTSP, HLS, and WebRTC streams served simultaneously. Low-latency video from facility to cloud to family — in under two seconds.
Cloudflare Tunnel
Every facility Pi connects to the cloud via an encrypted Cloudflare Tunnel. Zero open ports, zero static IPs, zero firewall rules — automatic, zero-config networking.
Multi-Tenant Architecture
Each facility gets its own subdomain, isolated data, and white-label branding. Franchise operators manage all locations from a single super admin panel.
ONVIF Auto-Discovery
Plug in any ONVIF-compatible IP camera and TinyGuard finds it automatically. USB cameras are supported too — just connect and stream.
Device-Bound Security
Pi authentication uses filesystem-stored tokens exchanged for short-lived JWTs. No browser-persisted secrets. Revoke any device instantly from the cloud.
Simple, transparent pricing.
Every plan includes the complete TinyGuard software suite — unlimited users, staff, and contacts. Pi 5 Setup Kit ($299 one-time) ships preconfigured.
- Live camera streaming + parent app
- Attendance + pickup kiosk
- Tuition billing + ACH
- AI summaries + lesson plans ($50/mo add-on)
- Payroll-ready exports + staff scheduling
- Everything in Facility
- Multi-location dashboard + Brand admin
- Cross-location reporting
- Custom quotes for larger multi-site groups
- HIPAA BAA available on request
$99/mo base + $2.50/child + live video from $7/camera (7-day storage; 30/60/365-day per camera) — no metered overages. Annual plans save ~17% (2 months free). Hardware: Pi 5 Setup Kit $299 one-time (up to 6 cams). Cancel anytime — month-to-month, no lock-in.
Elder care facility? See /assisted-living or elder pricing ($199–$499/mo + $8/resident + from $7/camera).
Included in every plan
No separate monitoring subscriptions. Live video is a fixed price per camera, from $7/camera/mo (7-day storage; 30/60/365-day available per camera) — no metered overages, no surprise storage bills. We built on Cloudflare’s global network instead of legacy cloud stacks — infrastructure costs under 1% of revenue, and we pass that efficiency to you.
Questions? Call (510) 686-3357 or email del@tinyguard.co
Built for regulated industries.
Care facilities face strict oversight. TinyGuard is engineered from the ground up to keep you audit-ready.
Ratio Tracking
Real-time child-to-staff and patient-to-caregiver ratio monitoring with automatic alerts when thresholds are at risk.
EVV Compliance (elder care, $75/mo add-on)
Electronic Visit Verification for Medicaid billing. Automated clock-in/out records with GPS verification and device-bound tokens.
Encrypted in Transit and at Rest
Camera streams transit encrypted Cloudflare Tunnels (TLS 1.3); cloud recordings are AES-256-encrypted at rest in Cloudflare R2. Device-bound authentication with short-lived tokens and instant revocation. No open ports on your network — ever.
Audit Reports
Generate state-ready compliance reports on demand. Complete security logs, care documentation, and staff activity records.
We don't wait for you
to find the outage.
Care doesn't pause for a bad day on our end — so the way we watch it doesn't either. Every customer-critical path — live video, login, recordings, billing — is probed on a schedule, around the clock, by us, before you ever notice. Continuous synthetic monitoring, not hope.
Live video, around the clock
A synthetic check opens the "see them live" path every single hour — nights and weekends included — so a dark feed pages us, not your families.
Core systems
The login, the dashboard, and the API behind every screen are probed every five minutes. A bad change gets caught in minutes, not support tickets.
Sign-in & devices
Authentication and the on-site Pi's streaming link are exercised on a half-hour loop, plus a full nightly login-to-video run.
Recordings & billing
Clip playback gets a visual smoke test through the day; payments are health-checked daily. The boring paths get watched too.
Built by people who assume the camera must be up — not hope it is.
Ready to modernize your facility?
See how TinyGuard replaces 4-6 disconnected tools with one platform. Fill out the form and we'll schedule a personalized walkthrough of your facility type.
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