TinyGuard vs SafelyYou

AI fall point-platform
vs. full operator dashboard.

SafelyYou Halo is the leading AI fall-detection platform — NIH-funded, 40% fewer falls and up to 80% fewer fall-related ER visits at adopting communities. Their move to Halo means they're competing for operator-level platform budget, not just point-safety budget. TinyGuard is the full operator dashboard: EVV billing (optional add-on), family video access, care-plan documentation, HIPAA BAA, and the same kind of vision-AI for the safety layer — on a Pi on your network.

TinyGuard

Full elder-care operator platform
on your Pi

Pi on your network · footage never leaves · EVV add-on + family video + care plans + vision AI · HIPAA BAA · published pricing from $199/mo + $8/resident

SafelyYou Halo

AI safety platform
(fall + eCall + ambient)

Cloud-hosted · NIH/NIA-funded · 40% fewer falls reported · pricing requires a demo · no native EVV / billing / family video / care-plan docs

EVV + billing + care plans, not just safety

SafelyYou Halo is safety + ambient care. It does not handle EVV (Medicaid 21st Century Cures Act), tuition / private-pay billing, care-plan documentation, family communication, or staff scheduling. Communities adopting Halo still run PointClickCare / WellSky / HHAeXchange alongside. TinyGuard is the operator dashboard those communities are paying for separately — EVV as an add-on, billing, and care plans included in the base.

Your video stays on your Pi

SafelyYou processes every room's video on their cloud. TinyGuard processes and records on a Pi you own — live video never leaves your building; the only persistent video is the in-room Pi (incident footage) + opt-in plan-tiered cloud archive when your community enables it. For HIPAA risk officers and family-trust marketing, this is a procurement difference.

Family video access is in the box

Halo focuses on staff/operator surfaces — fall detection, eCall, ambient care insights. Family-facing video is not a Halo feature. TinyGuard ships family video access as a covered-resident feature: adult children can check in on Dad's common-area video in the consent window. Sales differentiator for occupancy + family satisfaction scores.

Feature	TinyGuard	SafelyYou Halo
Safety & AI
AI fall detection	Vision-AI active dev	Best-in-class, NIH-funded
eCall + emergency response
Ambient care tracking	AV1 archive 30–365 days	Halo-native
Virtual check-ins (staff welfare rounds)	Live video access (no dedicated workflow yet)	Halo-native
In-room camera hardware (PoE)	Standard PoE — no lock-in	SafelyYou-supplied sensors
Body-worn cameras (staff)
Data location	Pi-local — your network	SafelyYou cloud only
Billing & compliance
EVV (21st Cures Act)	$75/mo add-on
Medicaid / private-pay billing
Care-plan documentation
Incident reports (print-ready)		Fall events only
HIPAA BAA available	tinyguard.co/legal/baa
No-biometrics covenant in MSA §3	tinyguard.co/legal/covenants	Not contractually disclaimed
Family + staff communication
Family mobile app
Family video access (consent-gated)
Family messaging
Staff scheduling + shift assignment
Resident dignity statute compliance	Audio-off-by-default covenant	Operator-configured
AI operations
AI-drafted shift reports (AI add-on)
Named AI assistant for staff (AI add-on)
Vision-AI care insights	Active dev	Halo-native
Pricing & terms
Published pricing	tinyguard.co/pricing	Demo required
Residential Care (≤20 beds) — software	$199/mo + $8/resident	Demo required
Facility — software	$499/mo + $8/resident	Demo required
Brand / Group — software	$499/community + $200/mo + $8/resident	Demo required
Live video — per camera	from $7/camera/mo · you pick retention (30-day $12)	Fall-sensor only — no family feed
Hardware lock-in	None — standard PoE cameras	SafelyYou-supplied sensor hardware
Pi 5 Setup Kit (one-time)	$299

Included Partial / different scope Not offered SafelyYou pricing requires a demo — "Demo required" reflects their gated disclosure model.

When a prospect brings up SafelyYou

SafelyYou's fall AI is real. 40% fewer falls and 80% fewer fall-related ER visits at adopting communities is published research, not marketing fluff. NIH grant funding confirms the science. Don't argue the safety claim — frame the comparison around scope:

"SafelyYou is the gold standard on AI fall detection — nobody disputes that, including us. The question is what else your community is buying. A community on SafelyYou still runs PointClickCare or WellSky for EVV + Medicaid billing + care plans, and a separate family-comms tool, and a separate staff scheduling app. TinyGuard is all of those in one operator dashboard, with the same kind of vision-AI for the safety layer, on a Pi that stays in your building. If your community is already paying for SafelyYou + a CMS + a family app + scheduling, the consolidated bill is the conversation. If you're greenfield and the priority is fall detection at hospital-grade accuracy on day one, SafelyYou is the safer first call."

Where SafelyYou has an edge — be honest about this

Fall-detection science: Published peer-reviewed research, NIH/NIA grant validation, years of in-community data. Our vision-AI is shipping but not at SafelyYou's hospital-grade accuracy on day one. If a community has a Joint Commission survey or a high fall-rate citation, SafelyYou's track record is a real advantage.
Halo platform momentum: Their move from point-solution to operator-platform (eCall + fall + virtual check-ins + ambient care) is well-executed. Halo is genuinely platform-grade, not bolted-on extensions.
Brand + clinical trust: Hospital/clinical sales channels know SafelyYou. Memory-care directors recognize the name. Our brand is earned one community at a time today.
Sensor hardware integration: SafelyYou ships dedicated sensor hardware tuned for fall detection. Our advantage is "use the cameras you already have or any PoE camera" — but a community wanting purpose-built fall sensors gets a tighter integration with SafelyYou.
Sales guidance: Don't position as a fall-detection replacement on day one. Position as the operator platform around the safety AI — and offer pair-deploy where the community keeps SafelyYou for safety and adds TinyGuard for billing + family video + care docs.

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AI fall point-platformvs. full operator dashboard.

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AI fall point-platform
vs. full operator dashboard.

Fall AI. EVV. Family video.
Care plans. One Pi on your network.