We do not test the products. Every attribute is what the vendor publishes about its own product, recorded with the page we read and the date we read it — never a guess, and never a competitor's description of a rival.
Where a vendor publishes a product or firmware version, we record which one we checked against; most do not, so most listings show that as "Not publicly stated" too.
Key facts
- Listings are not paid. No vendor can buy a listing, a position, a rating or a removal.
- Anything we could not confirm reads "Not publicly stated" — including Canadian availability, which is a column, not a filter.
- A listing we could not complete stays out of search results until it is complete. We would rather have a short directory than a padded one.
- Our own product is listed under the same rules and makes no fall-detection claim.
What every listing tells you
Nine attributes, the same nine for every product, so rows can be compared without reading nine marketing sites:
| Attribute | Why it is here |
|---|---|
| Sensor type | Radar, PIR, acoustic, camera, pressure, wearable, or a mix |
| Camera | Yes or no. The single question families ask first |
| Microphone | Yes or no, separately from camera — several camera-free products still listen |
| Wearable | Whether anything has to be worn or pressed for the product to work |
| Fall-detection claim | The vendor's own words, quoted, plus whether they publish accuracy data |
| Hosting country | Where the data is processed and stored, as the vendor states it |
| Canada availability | Sold and supported in Canada, or not stated |
| Pricing model | Hardware, subscription, or both, in the currency the vendor quotes |
| Vendor link and check date | The page we read, and when we read it |
The full rules are on the methodology page, and the attribute names themselves are defined in the glossary.
Two ways in
- The full compare table — every listing side by side, in two tables: vendors who state Canadian availability, and vendors whose Canadian availability we could not confirm. Products whose Canadian availability we could not confirm are still listed, and identified as such in every listing. That page also computes what each published monitored plan comes to over one to ten years, from the vendors' own one-time and monthly fees.
- The categories below — one page per product category, with the listings that belong to it.
Or start from the question you actually have:
- Nothing to wear and nothing to charge — radar presence sensors, and Wi-Fi sensing for what a router can and cannot tell you.
- A device that claims to spot a fall with nothing worn — radar fall-detection sensors, where the claims vary far more than the hardware does.
- Someone to answer the alert — medical alert pendants and watches, and remote-monitoring services and home-care bundles.
- Fewer night checks in a care home, and the privacy question that comes with them — acoustic monitoring.
- Seeing the room, and the rooms you cannot put a camera in — indoor cameras with AI.
- Someone who has already left the house — GPS trackers for dementia wandering.
- The rest of the day — automatic pill dispensers, daily check-in apps and smart speakers and voice assistants.
How we handle fall-detection claims
Many products in these categories claim to detect falls. We quote the claim exactly as the vendor writes it and note whether the vendor publishes real-world accuracy data. We do not test the products and we do not endorse or dispute the claims — we make the wording visible so you can ask the vendor about it.
Corrections and listing requests
If a listing is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will re-check the source: info@walledcare.com. Vendors may ask for a correction. They cannot ask for the removal of a sourced, accurate attribute, and they cannot pay for placement.
A company's absence here means we have not finished checking it — not that it is unavailable, and not that we think poorly of it.
In this section 12
Acoustic monitoring: fewer night checks, one big privacy question
Acoustic monitoring listens for sound in a resident's room at night and alerts staff. What it hears, what it misses, and the privacy questions to ask.
Read →Automatic pill dispensers and medication reminders: what they fix, and what they can't
What a locked, timed dispenser actually fixes, what the Cochrane adherence evidence really shows, and the eight questions to ask before buying one.
Read →Daily check-in apps for seniors: what one call a day catches, and what it misses
A check-in service asks for one answer a day and calls a contact if it does not come. What that catches, what it misses, and what to ask before paying.
Read →GPS trackers for dementia wandering: finding someone who has already gone out
GPS watches, tags and insoles help find someone already outdoors. Why they fail indoors and on a flat battery, and the eight questions to ask first.
Read →Indoor cameras with AI: what they show, and where they can't go
Indoor cameras with AI for eldercare: what video and software can and cannot tell you, the consent questions in Canada, and what to ask before buying.
Read →Medical alert pendants and watches: only if it's being worn
What a help button and automatic fall detection really do, the wear problem, five-year cost and Canadian tax treatment of medical alerts.
Read →Radar fall detection: what these sensors catch, and what they miss
Wall and ceiling radar sensors that claim to detect falls with nothing worn: how they work, what the evidence shows, and what to ask before buying.
Read →Radar presence sensors: cover the rooms a camera can't
No camera, nothing to wear: radar presence sensors report presence, movement and prolonged stillness, room by room. What they do and what they miss.
Read →Remote-monitoring services and home-care bundles: who answers at 3 a.m.
Home-care bundles sell sensors plus a monitoring service on one bill. What the Canadian randomized trial found, and who actually answers at 3 a.m.
Read →Senior monitoring devices compared: camera, microphone, anything to wear
Every listing in one sourced table: camera, microphone, anything worn, the vendor's own fall-detection wording, hosting country, price and check date.
Read →Smart speakers and voice assistants for seniors: good company, not a safety net
What a smart speaker genuinely helps an older adult with, why it is not a safety net, and what a microphone in a bedroom means for privacy in Canada.
Read →Wi-Fi sensing for elderly care: what it does, what it can't
Wi-Fi sensing reads how a body disturbs the signal between a router and its devices. What it can tell you about an older adult at home — and what it can't.
Read →
What we could not confirm
Canadian availability is the attribute vendors state least often, so it is recorded per product rather than assumed, and a product whose Canadian availability we could not confirm is listed and labelled rather than quietly dropped. The same rule applies to every other attribute: where the vendor does not publish it, the row reads "Not publicly stated" and stays that way until it does.
Currency is the second-most-often missing attribute. Several vendors publish a figure with a dollar sign and no currency; a .ca domain is not a currency statement, so those figures are recorded exactly as shown. Our own pricing page is one of them, and our listing says so.
Where WalledCare fits
WalledCare is listed here under the same nine attributes as every other product. It plugs into an outlet, one unit per room, and reports presence, movement, prolonged stillness and prolonged inactivity for that room. Its own row reads camera: no, microphone: no, wearable: no, hosting country: Canada, and in the fall-detection column our own words as published: "WalledCare is not a medical device. It does not detect falls and it does not measure breathing."
What the first three of those columns mean in a house is worth spelling out, because they are the columns a table flattens. There is "no lens, no microphone — no image ever recorded", so a unit can go in the bathroom and the hall, the two rooms a camera is least welcome in. Nothing is worn: the unit is "passive — nothing to charge, remember or press", so there is no pendant to put on in the morning and no watch to charge overnight. Alerts arrive as sentences rather than data — the example our own page gives is "No movement in the bathroom for 40 minutes, 6:12 am" — and they go to family or on-duty staff, because there is no monitoring centre and no dispatch. Sensing happens on the device; "only activity signals and alerts leave the home — and they stay on Canadian infrastructure" (walledcare.com, checked 2026-09-07).
Pricing is published: $29 a month for up to two sensors (the plan is described as "bedroom + bathroom"), $50 a month for up to five, plus a one-time $20 per sensor, and "from $8 / sensor / month at 25+ sensors" for care operators. No currency appears anywhere on that page, so the figures are recorded as shown (walledcare.com/upgrade, checked 2026-09-07).
None of that is a health claim, and none of it should be read as one. It does not detect falls, does not measure breathing, and is not a medical device. The technology behind these categories is explained, without the marketing, in what the sensors actually do.
Sources
- WalledCare product site, walledcare.com — "no lens, no microphone", "passive — nothing to charge, remember or press", the plain-English alert example, "Built & hosted in Canada", and "only activity signals and alerts leave the home". Checked 2026-09-07.
- WalledCare plans & pricing, walledcare.com/upgrade — plan prices, sensors included per plan, the one-time $20 per-sensor hardware fee, the care-operator rate, and the absence of any stated currency. Checked 2026-09-07.
- WalledCare Learn — editorial policy and comparison methodology, 2026.