ALLIE by Arqaios · Fixture-native ambient intelligence
Rooms that look after people.
Without watching them.
ALLIE turns the switches, outlets and vents already in every room into privacy-first sensing: falls detected, guests and residents protected, energy waste cut. No cameras. No wearables. Nothing to charge.
Welcome to Arqaios
Buildings know almost nothing about the people inside them. That costs lives and energy.
An older adult falls in a bathroom and lies there until the next scheduled check. A hotel room is heated and cooled for twelve empty hours a day. Both happen because the building has no idea whether anyone is in the room, and the only tools that could tell it were cameras nobody would accept or wearables nobody kept on.
Arqaios was founded on a simple observation: every one of those rooms already has a switch, an outlet and a vent. Put the sensing there, keep the intelligence in the room, and the building can look after people without ever watching them.
Three outcomes, one fixture
Everything a building should know about its rooms, without cameras.
ALLIE lives inside the switches, outlets and vents that already have to be in every room. One install delivers privacy-first safety and a lower energy bill.
Privacy & Security
Presence, not identity.
No cameras, no recordings, no faces. ALLIE senses that a room is occupied, how people are moving and whether something is wrong, and processes it inside the fixture. The same awareness flags after-hours intrusion without a single lens.
ExploreFall Prevention & Detection
See the risk. Catch the fall.
Baseline how each person moves, notice the drift in gait and night-time patterns that precedes a fall, and light the path before it happens. When a fall does happen, know the room, the severity and whether they got up, in seconds.
ExploreEnergy Optimization & Reduction
Never condition an empty room.
Occupancy that actually reflects people, not keycards or schedules, drives heating, cooling, lighting and plug loads room by room. Comfort arrives when guests and residents do; waste stops when they leave.
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Built for lodging
Wherever people sleep under someone else’s roof, the building has a duty of care and an energy bill.
ALLIE was designed for the two environments where both matter most. Senior living communities get fall prevention and detection in every room, night-time wandering awareness and occupancy-driven energy control. Hotels get room-level occupancy without keycards or cameras, and a quiet duty-of-care layer for guests in distress behind a closed door.
How ALLIE works
The building already has switches, outlets and vents in every room. We made them pay attention.
Fixture-native means the sensing, the intelligence and the action all live in hardware that has to be there anyway, so a retrofit is a swap, not a project.
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Sense in the fixture
mmWave radar, acoustic and environmental sensors sit inside standard switches, outlets and vents, the hardware every room already needs. No hub in the room, nothing to charge, nothing pointed at anyone.
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Understand at the edge
On-device AI turns raw signals into meaning in the room itself: occupied or empty, how someone is moving, whether they have fallen, whether breathing and motion look normal. Raw data never has to leave.
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Act in the building
Events flow to the people and systems that need them (caregivers, front desk, security, HVAC and lighting) with room-level location, severity and escalation timers. Comfort follows occupancy automatically.
ALLIE VentRoom-level airflow and comfort
Why it matters
The two problems every lodging operator already has.
Falls decide outcomes for older adults. Empty rooms decide the utility bill. ALLIE answers both from the same fixture.
Falls
Every minute on the floor makes the outcome worse.
ALLIE baselines how each person moves, notices the drift that precedes a fall, and when one happens knows the room, the severity and whether they got up, in seconds. Alerts escalate on no-response timers, with no camera in private space.
Fall prevention & detection
Energy
The empty room is the most expensive room in the building.
Occupancy that reflects people, not keycards or schedules, drives heating, cooling, lighting and plug loads room by room. Comfort arrives when guests and residents do; waste stops when they leave.
Energy optimizationemergency department visits a year from older-adult falls
the average hotel room sits unoccupied every day
Source: ENERGY STAR, Energy Savings Tips for Small Businesses: Lodging
energy cost reduction from guest-room energy management
Source: ENERGY STAR, Energy Savings Tips for Small Businesses: Lodging
Ready to see it in a room like yours?
Thirty minutes with our team: your floor plan, your risks, your energy bill, and a straight answer on what fixture-native sensing would change.
Technology differentiation
Sensing that belongs in a bedroom.
ALLIE is a fixture-native ambient intelligence platform: mmWave radar, acoustic and environmental sensing and on-device AI in standard switches, outlets and vents.
No cameras or wearables
No image sensor exists in any ALLIE fixture, so there is nothing to cover, disable or audit. Nothing to remember, charge or refuse: the room does the work.
On-device AI
Presence, activity, fall and distress classification happen inside the fixture. What leaves the room is an event such as 'occupied' or 'fall detected', never a stream.
Fixture-native retrofit
Installs in the standard boxes and openings every room already has, on normal power. A retrofit is a swap done during regular maintenance windows, not a construction project.
Presence, not identity
mmWave radar resolves position, motion, posture and breathing in the dark, through the whole room, with no image.
Comfort follows occupancy
Heating, cooling, lighting and plug loads respond to real people in the room, not keycards or schedules.
Backup power, stretched
Outlets shed non-critical loads during an outage so backup runtime goes to what matters.
Patent protection
Protected by two issued U.S. patents, with more pending.
The ideas behind ALLIE, fixtures that manage power on their own and fixtures that recognize an emergency and act, are covered by issued patents assigned to Arqaios, Inc.
U.S. Patent No. 12,282,307 · Issued April 22, 2025
Communication-enabled power management systems
A self-contained smart receptacle that senses how power is being used and whether anyone is present, talks to other fixtures in the building, and decides on its own when to trim, shed or restore power, including during outages, when every watt of backup matters.
U.S. Patent No. 12,444,291 · Issued October 14, 2025
Smart fixture system with integrated sensors for emergency detection and response, and methods for operation
The method behind ALLIE's safety layer: fixtures that monitor a room with integrated sensors, recognize when someone is in distress, open a line to a caregiver or responder, keep them updated in real time, and take physical action in the building (lights, power, environment) while the response is under way.
- Pending: Additional U.S. continuation-in-part applications extending the issued patents to further sensing, response and energy-management methods
- Pending: An international (PCT) application preserving rights outside the United States
U.S. patents
US 12,282,307
Communication-enabled power management systems
US 12,444,291
Smart fixture system with integrated sensors for emergency detection and response, and methods for operation
Inventor: Bruce Eliot Ross, Jr. · Assignee: Arqaios, Inc.
Where ALLIE is poised to deploy
Our commitment
Privacy is the product, not a setting.
Radar resolves that a person is in the room and how they are moving. It does not capture faces, skin or anything a human could recognize. Signals are interpreted on the device, and what leaves the room is an event such as ‘occupied’, ‘fall detected’ or ‘entry after hours’, not a stream.
There is no video to store, leak or subpoena. Acoustic sensing listens for the sound of an event, not for words. Traffic between fixtures and the operator dashboard is encrypted, access is role-based, retention is configurable per site, and notices, room signage and opt-out workflows are part of every deployment plan.
Read the data principlesThe question is not whether a building should know when someone has fallen. It is whether the building needs to watch them to know. It doesn’t.
Leadership & expertise
The people behind ALLIE.
Hardware, radar and machine-learning engineers, with advisors from telehealth, nurse-call and connected-device companies and research partners in aging and health services. Select a card to read a bio.
Leadership
The people building ALLIE in Chicago.
Engineering Team
Firmware, AI/ML and platform engineers, with Northwestern students working alongside them.
Advisory Board
Operators, engineers and executives from telehealth, nurse-call, wireless infrastructure, clean energy and university commercialization.
Research Scientists
Academic partners on aging, health services and sensing research.
Recognition and patents
Highlights.
The part of the story that is public: issued patents and industry recognition. Pilots, partnerships and product milestones are shared with partners first and appear here once they are public.
Residential Systems 2026 Picks Award
The editors of Residential Systems selected ALLIE by Arqaios for a 2026 Picks Award for its approach to safety and energy intelligence built into standard fixtures.
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CES 2026 Innovation Awards Honoree
Arqaios was honored in the Smart Home category of the CES 2026 Innovation Awards for ALLIE, its privacy-first sensing platform embedded in switches, outlets and vents.
Details- US
12,444,291U.S. Patent No. 12,444,291 issued
Smart fixture system with integrated sensors for emergency detection and response: the method behind ALLIE's safety layer, from recognizing distress to reaching a responder and acting in the room.
Details - US
12,282,307U.S. Patent No. 12,282,307 issued
Communication-enabled power management systems: a self-contained smart receptacle that senses presence and power use and decides on its own when to trim, shed or restore power.
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