How to know when a care home resident leaves their bed

Night rounds happen on a schedule, usually hourly. A resident who's a falls risk doesn't wait for the schedule to get out of bed. The gap between a round and the moment someone actually leaves their bed unaided is where most of the risk sits, and it's the gap a camera can close, simply by watching the room and flagging the moment it happens.

What Bed Exit Alert actually does

Bed Exit Alert is one of the alerting checks: it judges a window of recent frames from the camera in the room, so a resident genuinely getting up reads as an event rather than one frame being misread. When it fires, it flags that the bed is now empty and a resident is up, on screen, by email, or by webhook to whatever a home already uses to route night alerts to staff on shift.

That's the whole claim. It flags a bed exit. It doesn't monitor vitals, it isn't a medical device, and it makes no attempt to read a resident's condition, only whether they've left the bed. A home still decides what to do with that flag, the same judgement call staff already make on a round, just made sooner.

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   Agree, deliberately, whether a camera belongs in the room

   A camera in a resident's bedroom is a real decision, not a default. It needs consent processes and a conversation with the resident and their family that this page doesn't try to cover; a home's existing safeguarding process is where that decision belongs.

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   Connect the camera and add Bed Exit Alert

   An existing RTSP camera or the room's camera feed, with the check added from the Store for that camera and priced from the home's own usage.

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   Choose a watch level that matches how fast a resident moves

   Precise, a frame every second, catches a fast bed exit; Standard is enough where a slower response is acceptable.

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   Route the alert to whoever's on the night shift

   On screen, by email, or by webhook into a nurse-call or messaging system already in use, so it reaches a person quickly.

Dignity and privacy

A camera in a resident's room is a real decision a home has to make deliberately, alongside consent and family conversations this page won't try to substitute for. Where a camera is used, there's no facial recognition, no biometric identification, and no tracking of who a resident is beyond the flag itself: the alert says a resident has left the bed, not who they are or what state they're in.

Does it monitor a resident's vitals or health?

No. It flags that a resident has left their bed, nothing about their vital signs or medical condition. It isn't a medical device and makes no clinical claim.

How fast does staff find out?

As it happens. Bed Exit Alert judges frames as they arrive and raises the alert once the sequence reads as a bed exit, on screen, by email or by webhook, rather than waiting for the next round.

Does this replace night rounds?

No. It's a flag that can prompt a check sooner than the next scheduled round; it doesn't replace rounds, care staff's own judgement, or a home's existing safeguarding processes.

Is there facial recognition or identification involved?

No. There's no facial recognition, biometric identification or tracking of residents anywhere in Svid. The alert says a bed is empty and a resident is up, not who they are.