I've Fallen $29/mo

Type: tree | Size: minor
COMPONENTS
Fall Detector
Emergency Button
Two Way Speaker
GPS Location
Battery
PROBLEM

Humans fall and cannot get up and nobody knows.

SOLUTION

I've Fallen is a wearable emergency alert and fall detection system for operators who have reached an elevation in life where falling is a strategic risk rather than an inconvenience. The unit is worn around the neck or wrist, monitors for the specific kinematic signature of an uncontrolled descent event via a three-axis accelerometer and gyroscope, and dispatches an emergency alert to a pre-configured contact list and local emergency services within 8 seconds of detecting a fall that the operator has not self-recovered from. The operator can also press the large central button at any time to manually trigger the alert, which is useful in situations where the fall was successful but the subsequent being-on-the-floor portion is proving difficult to resolve. A two-way speaker allows the operator to communicate with the monitoring center while horizontal. The unit is waterproof to one meter because falls happen in bathrooms and everyone involved in the design of this product knows that and has agreed to acknowledge it by making the unit waterproof. Monthly subscription includes 24-hour monitoring, unlimited alerts, and a quarterly check-in call that the monitoring center makes whether or not the operator wants one.

components

The Fall Detector is a three-axis MEMS accelerometer and gyroscope fusion module that continuously samples the operator's kinematic state at 100 Hz and runs an on-device edge inference model trained on the specific acceleration and rotational velocity signature of a human fall event as distinct from sitting down quickly, dropping the unit, vigorous dancing, and the roman candle launch scenario which required its own exclusion zone in the training data. A fall event is confirmed when the freefall signature is followed by an impact signature followed by a sustained stationary low-elevation posture reading, at which point a 30-second auto-cancel window opens during which the operator can indicate they are fine by pressing the button. If the button is not pressed, the alert escalates. The model was trained to minimize false positives because false positives erode trust and an operator who dismisses too many false alerts will eventually dismiss a real one, which is the exact outcome the Fall Detector exists to prevent.

Inspect

The Emergency Button is a large, high-contrast, tactile dome switch occupying the full center face of the I've Fallen unit, sized and positioned for reliable operation by a hand that may be shaking, gloved, or operating from a non-standard angle relative to the body. One press held for two seconds triggers the emergency alert sequence. The two-second hold requirement exists to prevent accidental activation during normal handling, which was the single most common complaint in user testing and the single most important failure mode to prevent in deployment. The button is backlit with a soft green LED in standby that shifts to pulsing red during an active alert, providing a visual status indicator that is readable in low light. The button is the thing. Everything else in the unit exists to make the button work reliably and to fill in the cases where the operator cannot reach it.

Inspect

The Two Way Speaker is a combined microphone and speaker module integrated into the I've Fallen unit body, enabling bidirectional voice communication between the operator and the 24-hour monitoring center immediately upon alert confirmation. The speaker output is 85 decibels at one meter, sufficient for a person lying on a floor to hear the monitoring center from a normal room distance away. The microphone is an omnidirectional electret capsule with a noise floor low enough to capture a voice at reduced volume, which is the volume at which people tend to speak when they are on the floor and uncertain about what happens next. The connection is established automatically when the alert is confirmed and does not require the operator to press anything additional. The monitoring center speaks first.

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Global positioning subsystem providing sub-meter geospatial coordinate resolution, enabling precise geographic anchoring of instantiated tree and ecosystem nodes to real-world terrain surfaces within the Compass deployment layer.

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TREE
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