Keeping seniors safe, independent, and connected at home
Birdhouse is an AI-powered monitoring system that watches over seniors living alone using discreet motion sensors — alerting families and Active Ageing Centres the moment daily routines change. No cameras, no wearables, no lifestyle changes.
Smart Care Features
Unobtrusive Monitoring
No wearables or lifestyle changes needed — our sensors work silently in the background.
Real-Time Alerts
Instant notifications by app or email about important changes or concerns.
AI-Powered Intelligence
AI insights explain the day and point out changes from the usual routine.
A quiet challenge in an ageing Singapore
More seniors are living alone — and could go unnoticed if something goes wrong. Birdhouse helps families and care teams stay one step ahead.
seniors in Singapore live alone today
Source: Ministry of Health, via The Straits Times
Singaporeans will be aged 65 or older by 2030
Source: The Straits Times
cite data security as their top concern with monitoring technology
Source: Birdhouse user research
Simple setup, powerful results
Get started in minutes with a monitoring solution seniors don't have to think about.
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Install in minutes
Place a small motion sensor on a wall or shelf and plug in the hub. No tools, no wiring, nothing for the senior to learn.
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Birdhouse sees the routine
From the sensors, Birdhouse builds a picture of each senior's usual day and compares today with it.
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Get alerted early
If expected movement is missing, caregivers and Active Ageing Centres get an alert by app or email — plus daily reports.
Key Benefits
Instant SOS Alerts
Press the SOS button and the caregiver and Active Ageing Centre are alerted instantly, any hour. The Birdhouse team follows up by phone during business hours.
Active Ageing Centre Integration
Seamless collaboration with care providers for optimal support.
Daily Activity Reports
Comprehensive summaries to track wellness trends.
Preventive Care
Early detection of potential issues before they escalate.
A few discreet devices. Continuous peace of mind.
A small set of devices that track signs of movement — nothing more. No camera, no audio or video, no heat mapping.
Motion sensor
Detects everyday movement across a room so Birdhouse knows the senior is up and about.
- 128° field of view
- Up to 6 m (20 ft) range
- Zigbee + long battery life
Door sensor
Assists with home-presence detection by sensing doors opening and closing.
- Detects entry & exit
- Wireless, no wearable
- Long battery life
SOS / panic button
A one-press button for help. The caregiver and Active Ageing Centre are alerted instantly, and the Birdhouse team follows up by phone during business hours.
- Alerts caregivers instantly, any hour
- Active Ageing Centre notified
- Follow-up call in business hours
Hub
Securely connects all sensors to the cloud over your home network.
- Plug-and-play setup
- Encrypted data
- Works over your home network
The Birdhouse app
The answer to “Is Mum OK?”, at a glance
Open the app and the first thing you see is how she is right now. Everything else — today’s activity, the family, the sensors — is one tap away.
One clear status for each home
Each home has a card with one big answer: All good, No activity for 3 hours, the latest alert, SOS, or Hub offline — plus when and where she last moved.
Today compared with a usual day
Today’s activity, hour by hour, next to what is usual for her — so a slow morning stands out.
Share with family and carers
Invite family as Owner, Manager or Viewer, approve requests to join, and invite a care agency when you want professional support.
Set up in a few minutes
Scan the QR code on the hub to add it, then pair each sensor and choose the room it’s in.
Your data, your choice
Download your data, turn off the AI assistant or delete your account from Settings › Your data.
Available now as a web app on any phone or computer. The iPhone app is coming soon to the App Store.
Open the web app →Alerts
The right alert, to the right people, the way they want it
When something needs attention, Birdhouse tells everyone who looks after the home — and each person decides how they hear about it.
iPhone, Telegram or email
Push notifications on iPhone are Time Sensitive, with a different tone for urgent alerts, warnings and other updates. Alerts can also come by Telegram and email.
Only what matters to you
Each person chooses their channels and the lowest level they want to hear about: info, warning or urgent.
Quiet hours
Choose hours when you don’t want to be disturbed. Urgent alerts and SOS always come through.
Escalation until someone responds
If nobody acknowledges an urgent alert (an SOS: within 5 minutes), Birdhouse sends it again to everyone and to on-call: the home's care agency, and the Birdhouse team for homes with a Birdhouse monitoring plan.
Acknowledge from the app
One person acknowledges the alert and everyone else sees who is handling it, so nobody is left wondering.
SOS always goes out
A press of the SOS button alerts everyone with access to the home immediately, at any hour, whatever their settings.
Birdhouse alerts people: family, your care agency and, with a Birdhouse monitoring plan, the Birdhouse team. It is not an emergency service and never calls 995 for you. In a life-threatening emergency, call 995.
Dynamic monitoring
Rules that fit each home, not one fixed threshold
Every home and every routine is different. Birdhouse watches with simple rules you can read and change, set for each home and each room.
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Suggested when you place a sensor
Put a sensor in the bedroom, the bathroom or by the front door, and Birdhouse suggests the rules that make sense for that room.
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Adjust them in plain language
Each rule reads like a sentence. Tap the coloured words to change the room, the times, the days or how long.
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Or just ask
Tell the assistant “Tell me if Mum isn’t up by 9”. It drafts the rule, explains what it will do, and saves it only when you confirm.
Set up a rule by asking
Birdhouse checks every rule every minute. Everyone with access can see the rules for a home; the owner and managers can change them or switch them off.
iPhone widgets
Check in from your home screen
Birdhouse widgets put her status on your iPhone’s home screen and Lock Screen, so you can check in without opening the app.
Small, medium and large
Status and last activity; today’s activity hour by hour against a usual day; or every home you look after, most urgent first.
On the Lock Screen too
A compact status right under the clock, for a quick look before you unlock.
The latest alert
When an alert is open, the widget shows it instead of “All good”.
Widgets refresh regularly, at times your iPhone decides, so they are for checking in. Alerts that need attention arrive straight away as push notifications.
Widgets come with the iPhone app, coming soon to the App Store.
Insights
Understand the day, not just the alerts
Movement tells a story. Birdhouse turns it into charts and plain words you can read in seconds.
Daily timeline
Which rooms she used and when, time out of the home, and quiet periods such as sleep.
Patterns over days and weeks
Heatmaps of activity by hour across days, and how much each room is used, show how routines change.
Today vs usual
Compare today with recent days, for the whole home or room by room.
AI insights in plain language
Short summaries that point out what is different, written for families, not analysts.
Daily and weekly reports
A summary with a chart by Telegram or email, so the whole family is on the same page.
AI assistant
Ask about the home in your own words
The Birdhouse assistant answers questions like “How did Mum sleep?” in the app or on Telegram.
Birdhouse assistant
In the app or on Telegram
Families chat with @BirdhouseHomeBot on Telegram or use the assistant in the app. Care agencies have their own bot for their staff.
Only the homes you can see
The assistant can only see the homes you have access to — never anyone else’s.
It asks first
Before your first question, it asks for your consent to send the information it needs to OpenAI to answer. You can turn it off at any time.
Private by design
Birdhouse staff can’t see a family’s activity unless the family has a monitoring plan or grants support access for a few days. Every staff view is logged and visible to the family.
No cameras, no microphones, no wearables — only signs of movement, doors and the SOS button.
Simple, transparent pricing
One low monthly subscription.
Every plan includes a personalised Telegram AI assistant
Basic
Essential monitoring for peace of mind.
Includes
- 1 Hub
- 1 motion sensor
- AI assistant
- Emergency notifications
- AI insights
Essential
Adds emergency support and home-presence detection.
Includes
- 1 Hub
- 1 motion sensor
- 1 door sensor
- 1 SOS / panic button
- AI assistant
- Emergency notifications
- AI insights
Add-ons: additional sensors (Motion / Door / SOS) are +S$5/month each.
Prices in Singapore dollars (SGD). Contact us for Active Ageing Centre and bulk deployment pricing.
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Proven in real homes across Singapore
Birdhouse has run real-world pilots with community care partners — supporting seniors and persons with disabilities who need closer care attention.
Jia Ying Active Ageing Centre
4 seniors · 11,500+ check-ins · 90 days
Chong Hua Tong Active Ageing Centre
3 seniors · 7,500+ check-ins · 150+ days
New Hope Community Services
9 care receivers · 360,000+ check-ins · 6-month paid pilot
Birdhouse helps us improve the quality of care we give to seniors. It's a form of 'insurance' that is a must-have for stay-alone seniors.
Validated in real emergencies
During our 6-month paid pilot with New Hope Community Services, some care receivers experienced a medical emergency and were able to call for help themselves. In each case, Birdhouse independently detected and confirmed the unusual inactivity within 12–24 hours — confirming that, had they been unable to call for help, Birdhouse would have flagged it to their caregivers.
What people are saying
Hear from our community of caregivers and seniors.
"The AI Bot is good and easy to use, very useful as it allows us to know that the senior is safe at home."
Jia Ying Active Ageing Centre
Staff
"I don't mind it (Birdhouse) there for 365 days, it doesn't hurt me, it's useful, should I faint, I'm ok!"
Senior Resident
Birdhouse User
"Yes, we feel safer and will keep using it (Birdhouse)."
Senior Resident
Birdhouse User
Recognised and trusted
Birdhouse has been recognised by Singapore's government, press and community care partners.
Build for Good 2024
A winning project at the national citizen hackathon organised by Open Government Products.
View projectThe Straits Times
“Motion detector for seniors living alone among winners at citizen hackathon.”
Read the articleSingapore Government showcase
Featured in the SG60 Heart & Soul Experience as an Open Government Products project.
View showcase"A device like Birdhouse is promising as it helps seniors preserve their privacy while making it easy for caregivers to note their well-being."
How Birdhouse compares
Honest, sourced comparisons with the other ways to keep watch over a senior living alone in Singapore — including the cases where we would tell you to choose something else.
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Birdhouse vs Personal Alert Buttons (Singapore)
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Birdhouse vs Singapore Red Cross HoME+
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Read the comparisonvs DIY (motion sensor + hub, self-monitored)
Birdhouse vs DIY Motion Sensor + Hub
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Read the comparisonFrequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about Birdhouse.
What is Birdhouse?
Birdhouse is an AI-powered monitoring system for seniors living alone. It uses discreet motion sensors to learn a senior's daily routine and automatically alerts family caregivers and Active Ageing Centres when unusual inactivity is detected, so help can arrive early.
How does Birdhouse work?
A small Zigbee motion sensor detects everyday movement at home and sends activity data to a hub. Birdhouse compares the day with the senior's usual pattern and with the alert rules set for the home, and sends an alert (in the app, on Telegram or by email) when expected activity is missing, such as no movement in the morning.
What happens when a senior presses the SOS button?
The alert goes out instantly, at any hour: the caregiver is notified immediately, along with the Active Ageing Centre if the centre is enrolled. During business hours, the Birdhouse team also calls the senior to check on them and helps coordinate next steps. Birdhouse is not an emergency response service — in a life-threatening emergency, call 995.
Does Birdhouse use cameras? Is it private?
No. Birdhouse uses no cameras, no audio or video recording and no heat mapping — and no wearables. It only tracks anonymous signs of movement, which are encrypted and protected with role-based access. The prototype deliberately left out a camera because the seniors interviewed by the team wanted privacy.
How much does Birdhouse cost?
Birdhouse is a simple monthly subscription with no separate hardware fee. The Basic plan is S$25/month and includes a hub and 1 motion sensor. The Essential plan is S$30/month and adds a door sensor and an SOS/panic button. Additional sensors are +S$5/month each.
Who is Birdhouse for?
Birdhouse is built for seniors living alone, their families and caregivers, and for Active Ageing Centres (AACs) and community service teams who need to keep watch over many seniors at once.
Do seniors need to change their daily routine or charge anything?
No. Birdhouse is non-intrusive and low-maintenance. Seniors do not need to wear a device, press buttons or change their behaviour, and the sensors run on long-life batteries.
What devices does Birdhouse include?
Birdhouse includes a hub that connects your sensors to the cloud, one or more motion sensors that detect activity, an optional door sensor for home-presence detection, and an optional SOS/panic button that raises an immediate alert to your caregivers when pressed. You can add more sensors at any time for S$5/month each.
Is there a Birdhouse app?
Yes. The Birdhouse app shows each home’s status, today’s activity compared with a usual day, alerts, alert rules and the people who share the home. It is available now as a web app at app.birdhouse.sg/app, and the iPhone app, with home-screen and Lock Screen widgets, is coming soon to the App Store.
How do I choose which alerts I get?
Each person chooses their own channels (iPhone notifications, Telegram or email), the lowest alert level they want (info, warning or urgent) and quiet hours, in the app under Settings. Urgent alerts and SOS presses always come through, and if nobody acknowledges an urgent alert, Birdhouse sends it again and brings in on-call: your care agency, or the Birdhouse team with a Birdhouse monitoring plan.
Can I change what Birdhouse watches for?
Yes. When a sensor is placed in a room, Birdhouse suggests rules for it — for example, no movement in the living room for 2 hours during the day, or a long time in the bathroom with no movement elsewhere. The home’s owner or managers can change them in the app as plain sentences, or ask the assistant (“Tell me if Mum isn’t up by 9”), which drafts the rule and saves it only after you confirm.
Do the iPhone widgets update in real time?
No. Widgets refresh regularly, but your iPhone decides exactly when, so they are best for a quick check. Alerts that need attention arrive straight away as push notifications, Telegram messages or email.
Where is Birdhouse available, and is it proven?
Birdhouse is based in Singapore and has run real-world pilots with care partners including Jia Ying and Chong Hua Tong Active Ageing Centres and a 6-month paid pilot with New Hope Community Services — 16+ homes and 380,000+ check-ins in total. During the New Hope pilot, Birdhouse independently detected and confirmed inactivity linked to real medical emergencies. It was one of the winning projects at Build for Good 2024 and was featured by The Straits Times.
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