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, 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 + family video + care plans + vision AI · HIPAA BAA · published pricing from $499/mo

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, MAR, 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.

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)	✓ Every tier	—
Medicaid / private-pay billing	✓	—
MAR documentation	✓	—
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	✓	—
Named AI assistant for staff	✓	—
Vision-AI care insights	✓ Active dev	✓ Halo-native
Pricing & terms
Published pricing	✓ tinyguard.co/pricing	Demo required
Standard base	$499/mo	Demo required
Professional base	$999/mo	Demo required
Enterprise base	$2,999/mo	Demo required
Hardware lock-in	✓ None — standard PoE cameras	SafelyYou-supplied sensor hardware
30-day money-back guarantee	✓ Subscription + hardware	Annual contract typical
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 + MAR, 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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Pi 5 Setup Kit $299 one-time. 30-day money-back on subscription + hardware. HIPAA BAA available at tinyguard.co/legal/baa. Published pricing — no sales call required to see what it costs.

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AI fall point-platformvs. full operator dashboard.

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

AI fall point-platform
vs. full operator dashboard.

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