ALLIE by Arqaios · Fixture-native ambient intelligence
Rooms that look after people.
Without watching them.
ALLIE by Arqaios is camera-free fall detection, presence sensing and energy control for assisted living, memory care and hotels, built into the light switches, outlets and vents already in every room. 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.
Explore privacy & securityFall 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.
Explore fall prevention & detectionEnergy 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.
Explore energy optimization
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.
ALLIE SwitchPresence, falls, lighting and HVAC control - 02
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.
ALLIE OutletPlug-load sensing and power management - 03
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
The film
Ninety seconds on what ALLIE does.
Presence sensing with no cameras, a fall detected and answered, an intruder stopped at the window, and the fixtures that make it possible. The film carries its own titles and callouts, so it plays here with nothing over it. Press play, or jump to a chapter.
Read the transcript (the film is silent; these are its on-screen titles and scenes)
- 0:00Title card: the Arqaios logo with the line 'Designed to sense. Built to act.'
- 0:04A family talks at a kitchen island. An ALLIE outlet with its status light sits in the island's side panel.
- 0:08Parents play with a toddler on a playroom floor. An ALLIE light switch is on the wall behind them.
- 0:14An ALLIE vent in the ceiling, its small display reading 72 degrees.
- 0:16A family on a sofa. On-screen notifications: 'The oven timer has ended', 'Turning oven off', 'Alerting Amy'.
- 0:18The three ALLIE fixtures side by side: the switch with a round dial reading 72 degrees, the outlet reading 145 watts, and the vent reading 72 degrees.
- 0:22Title: 'Private Point Cloud Presence Sensing'. The three family scenes dissolve into radar point clouds: each person is a cluster of points, with no faces and no image.
- 0:26A floor plan with radar rings spreading through every room. Titles: 'Presence detection and device tracking', 'Passive sensor technology', 'No cameras and no privacy tradeoffs'.
- 0:30Title: 'AI at the edge enables next generation innovation'. List: environmental sensing, object and device tracking, biometric monitoring, room-level temperature controls, fire and smoke detection, AI-driven energy optimization, intrusion detection.
- 0:34An older woman, Carol, steadies herself against a bathroom doorway at night.
- 0:38Titles: 'Safety should be proactive, not reactive.' 'We are going to change that.'
- 0:42An ALLIE switch glows softly in a dark hallway.
- 0:44Carol appears as a radar point cloud on a plan of the bathroom. Notifications: 'Fall detected', 'Initiating emergency procedure'. Carol is on the bathroom floor.
- 0:50An acoustic waveform on screen, labelled 'Grunt'. Notifications: 'Faint grunt detected', 'Calling for help'.
- 0:56A phone on a nightstand at 5:30 a.m. shows 'Mom may have fallen' and 'Paramedics en route'.
- 0:58A smart lock keypad turns from blue to green. Notification: 'Unlocking door to allow EMTs entry'.
- 1:02Paramedics climb the stairs to reach Carol.
- 1:08A hooded intruder pries at a kitchen window at night. He appears as a radar point cloud labelled 'Unknown presence'. Notifications: 'Window tampering detected', 'Unknown person detected'.
- 1:12A couple wakes in bed. Notifications: 'Window tampering detected', 'Unknown person detected', 'Initiating security protocol'. The intruder retreats from the window.
- 1:16Notifications: 'Contacting police', 'Scanning for additional threats'. A radar sweep ends with 'No threats found'.
- 1:20Titles over a montage of the rooms: 'Join us on our journey to re-imagine smart homes and smart spaces everywhere.' A dashboard shows 'Reduce power immediately'.
- 1:26Title: 'Let's rewire safety together.'
- 1:28Closing card: the Arqaios logo with 'Designed to sense. Built to act.'
The film was produced for ALLIE’s introduction at CES 2026 and shows the platform in a home. The same switch, outlet and vent serve senior living communities and hotels.
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.
Fall prevention and detection
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
Occupancy-based energy control
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: 60 GHz mmWave radar, acoustic and environmental sensing and on-device AI in standard switches, outlets and vents, for fall detection, presence sensing and energy control without cameras.
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 Partner
Academic partner on aging, health services and long-term care 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.
Read the announcement
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.
Read the announcement- NAR
2025NAR 2025 Tech Innovation Pitch Battle finalist
The National Association of REALTORS selected Arqaios as one of six startups to pitch at NAR NXT in Houston, its first national recognition.
Read the announcement - 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.
Patent 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.
Patent details
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