PacSana

What PacSana does

PacSana is an Irish private company founded in 2019 by Feargal Duignan that sells a senior-focused wearable monitoring system to home care agencies, senior living communities, and families caring for older adults. The company's SmartSolution comprises three integrated components: a silicone wristband (PacSana Smart Bracelet) with a 365-day battery life, fall detection, and continuous activity/gait/temperature monitoring; an in-home plug-in gateway that transmits wearable data to the cloud over Microsoft Azure IoT; and an iOS/Android mobile app that delivers real-time alerts and behavioral insights to families and care teams. PacSana applies AI-driven anomaly detection and predictive analytics to convert continuous behavioral data into proactive early warning alerts, positioning its offering against legacy reactive fall-response solutions. The company is certified to ISO27001, HIPAA, and HITRUST standards (via Microsoft Azure), reflecting its handling of protected health information.

PacSana operates across the U.S., U.K., and Ireland, with named enterprise customers including individual Right at Home franchisees, Western Home Communities, Veterans Home Care (VetAssist), and Griswold HomeCare. Revenue is generated through a combination of hardware sales (the bracelet and gateway) and recurring subscription monitoring services to families and care organizations; pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. Go-to-market combines direct enterprise field sales with a channel-partner model in which home care agencies and senior living providers deploy the SmartSolution to their clients.

In May 2026, PacSana announced a strategic partnership with Unity Global Care Inc. to integrate Unity's ALBERTai intelligence platform with PacSana's SmartSolution, expanding the offering into a combined AI-driven, proactive home care solution. To date, PacSana has raised approximately €2.4M across four funding events between 2021 and 2025, remains privately held with 1-10 employees, and is led by CEO Feargal Duignan and CTO Mark Nolan.

Name

PacSana

Legal name

PacSana

Website

https://pacsana.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

PacSana is an Irish healthtech company that sells a senior-specific wearable monitoring system — a silicone wristband, in-home gateway, and mobile app — to home care agencies, senior living communities, and families for proactive, AI-driven monitoring of older adults.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Senior Care Wearable Monitoring

NAICS

Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (62412)

SIC

Computer Peripheral Equipment, Nec (3577)

akta.pro primary industry

Wearable Medical Alert Devices (Pendants, Watches, Bands) (HSAHAHAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Chronic Care & Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Platforms (HLALABAF), Elder Care, Wellness & Home Health IoT (Fall Detection, Medical Alerts, Sleep/Wellness Sensors) (HSAPAQAJ), Elderly/Frail & Assisted Living Connected Care (PERS/Fall Detection) (HLACAFAE), Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM)-Integrated Medical Alert Services (HSAHAHAH)

Keywords

• Wearable health monitoring
• Senior care technology
• Elderly fall detection
• Home care solutions
• Proactive care analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

Dublin

HQ country

Ireland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Subscription Monitoring Service: PacSana generates recurring subscription revenue from families and care organizations for continuous monitoring services. Subscribers receive access to the mobile app, real-time alerts, and behavioral insights. The subscription model provides predictable recurring revenue with potential for upsell through premium tiers.
2. Wearable Hardware (Bracelet & Gateway): PacSana sells the PacSana Smart Bracelet and in-home plug-in gateway as hardware components required for the monitoring service. The hardware may be sold as a one-time purchase or bundled with the subscription.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

PacSana provides an integrated wearable monitoring system for older adults, comprising a silicone wristband Smart Bracelet with a 365-day battery, an in-home plug-in gateway, and a mobile app for families and care teams. The platform continuously collects movement, activity, gait, sleep, and fall data, and uses AI-driven analytics on Microsoft Azure IoT cloud to deliver real-time alerts and proactive early-warning insights to senior care agencies, senior living communities, and individual families.

Product overview

PacSana offers a unified SmartSolution platform centered on its Smart Bracelet wearable device for seniors. The system comprises three core components: the PacSana Smart Bracelet (a 365-day battery wearable with fall detection and activity monitoring), an In-home Plug-in Gateway for cloud connectivity, and a Family & Care Team Mobile App for iOS and Android that delivers real-time alerts and insights. The platform employs AI for early warning and behavioral analysis, addressing senior care, senior living communities, and families seeking to support aging in place.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• PacSana Smart Bracelet A lightweight, waterproof, hypoallergenic silicone wristband wearable designed specifically for seniors, with a 365-day battery life requiring no charging. Captures falls, monitors movement, tracks exercise, gait, step count, sleep statistics, temperature, and longest time without significant movement. Sold to senior care agencies, senior living communities, and families for 24/7 monitoring of older adults.
• In-home Plug-in Gateway A plug-and-play in-home gateway device with a 5-minute installation that connects the PacSana Smart Bracelet to the cloud, enabling real-time data transmission and continuous monitoring without requiring seniors to interact with complex technology. Sold to senior care agencies, senior living communities, and families.
• Family & Care Team Mobile App A mobile application for iOS and Android that delivers real-time insights and alerts on loved ones' wellbeing to families and care teams. Includes push notifications for fall detection and check-in prompts, and provides remote visibility into movement history, step count, exercise, sleep statistics, time spent outside the home, and longest time without significant movement.
• SmartSolution (Integrated Wearable Monitoring Platform) The unified subscription-based monitoring service combining the PacSana Smart Bracelet, In-home Plug-in Gateway, and Family & Care Team Mobile App with AI-driven behavioral analytics on Microsoft Azure IoT cloud. Delivers 24/7 continuous monitoring, real-time fall alerts, and proactive early-warning insights to senior care agencies, senior living communities, and families for aging adults.

Quantifiable outcome

• Proactive care approach studies suggest can add 2–5 years of independent living for older adults.
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability6 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Unity Global Care Inc.coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 May 2026Unity Global Care Inc. and PacSana announced a strategic partnership on May 13, 2026, to deliver an integrated, data-driven home care solution combining Unity's ALBERTai intelligence platform with PacSana's SmartSolution wearable monitoring device for aging adults. The partnership addresses a growing market crisis with 63 million seniors receiving professional home care, projected spending of $275 billion by 2030, and 10,000 Americans turning 65 daily. The combined offering enables home care agencies to shift from reactive to proactive care delivery through continuous behavioral monitoring and AI-driven risk detection.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• CarePredict: AI-powered wearable for seniors with continuous activity, gait, and behavioral monitoring sold to home care agencies and senior living operators — the closest direct competitor to PacSana's SmartSolution.
• Aloe Care Health: Offers a smart hub plus wearable for fall detection, motion, and environmental monitoring, sold to families and home care providers — overlapping product architecture (gateway + wearable + app) and target customer.
• Medical Guardian: One of the largest U.S. PERS and medical alert providers, selling wearables and home-based alert devices to seniors and their families — direct competitor in the same wearable-medical-alert category.

Broad incumbents

• Life Alert: Established incumbent PERS brand offering emergency response wearables and home systems to the senior market — competes in the same medical alert wearable category with much greater brand recognition.
• Philips Lifeline: Philips-owned PERS and aging-in-place solution with home-based alert devices and on-the-go wearables — a broad incumbent serving similar home-care and senior-living channels.
• Best Buy Health (Critical Signal Technologies): Best Buy Health's RPM/PERS offering provides connected senior monitoring including fall detection and wearable devices — a well-capitalized incumbent leveraging Best Buy's retail footprint and Geek Squad installation.
• Apple (Apple Watch fall detection): Consumer smartwatch with fall detection and health monitoring reaching older users — competes in wearable fall detection, though not designed specifically for senior chronic-care workflows.

Emerging players

• Inspiren: Provides AI-driven safety and monitoring technology for senior living communities — adjacent in using AI for proactive senior care, but focused on assisted living environments rather than home.
• GrandPad: Senior-focused connected tablet and wearable ecosystem designed for older adults and their families — comparable design philosophy and direct-to-family/aging-in-place use cases.
• VitalConnect: Provides wearable biosensor patches and RPM platform for continuous vital-sign monitoring — overlaps with PacSana in wearable remote monitoring infrastructure and AI-driven analytics, though more clinically focused.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/PacsanaCare
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/68990404
• Xx.com/pac_sana

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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