AltumView

What AltumView does

AltumView is a privately held Burnaby, BC-based company that develops AI sensors and software for senior care, patient monitoring, and support for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs) under the Sentinare product brand. Its flagship device combines an onboard AI chip that converts live video into privacy-preserving stick figures before transmission with edge-based activity recognition, enabling placement in private spaces such as bedrooms and bathrooms. Bundled capabilities include fall detection (up to 6m, pet-immune, with slow-fall and fall-risk-assessment modes), activity recognition (standing, sitting, lying), region-of-interest monitoring (wandering, bed leaving, overstay/absence), face recognition, hand-waving detection, and 2-way VOIP audio, all surfaced through iOS, Android, and web apps plus a cloud API.

The business model blends one-time hardware sales with a freemium-to-subscription ladder: a free Basic Plan (up to 5 devices, basic alerts, 14-day history), a $20/month Home Plan (AI-Verified Alerts, up to 10 devices, 90-day retention, daily email summaries), and quote-based enterprise/institutional custom solutions for higher sensor counts, longer retention, and API integration. Go-to-market is hybrid: direct-to-consumer via the company e-commerce storefront and Amazon (US/Canada, including Alexa Together), augmented by an exclusive-distributor network covering the US, Canada, Australia, Japan, UK, EU, and Singapore, with institutional/research deployments at Johns Hopkins, USC, McMaster, Carleton, and SFU. Recent product activity includes a major firmware upgrade (May 2025), Cloud AI for anomaly detection (September 2025), and an AI chatbot for customer and API support (October 2025), and the company holds CES 2021 Innovation Awards Honoree recognition for the Sentinare sensor.

Name

AltumView

Legal name

AltumView

Website

https://altumview.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

AltumView is a Burnaby-based private company that develops the Sentinare AI activity sensor and software platform for senior care, patient monitoring, and IDD support, combining a privacy-preserving on-device AI chip with cloud-based anomaly detection and a freemium-plus-subscription business model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Senior Care AI Monitoring

NAICS

Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (62412)

SIC

Services-Home Health Care Services (8082)

akta.pro industry

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Elderly/Frail & Assisted Living Connected Care (PERS/Fall Detection)

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Digital Health & Health IT/Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) & Connected Care Platforms

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Elder Care, Assisted Living & Fall Detection Systems

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Digital Health & Health IT/Healthcare IoT & Remote Patient Monitoring

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Fall Detection, Safety & Emergency Response (PERS, Smart Home Health Sensors)

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Medical Devices & Diagnostics/Patient Monitoring, Wearables & Remote Diagnostics

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Home Patient Monitoring & Telehealth Devices (Vitals, Fall Detection, PERS)

Home & Personal Services/Elder Care & In-Home Care Services/Medical Equipment & Home Mobility Support Services

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Data Aggregation, Interoperability & APIs for RPM (FHIR/IoMT Gateways)

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Digital Health & Health IT/Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) & Connected Care Platforms

Keywords

• AI activity sensors
• Senior care monitoring
• Patient monitoring devices
• Fall detection technology
• Privacy-preserving AI

Headquarters

HQ city

Burnaby

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Hardware Sales (Sentinare Sensor): One-time hardware sales of Sentinare AI activity sensor device. Device sold direct via e-commerce and Amazon marketplace, as well as through exclusive distributors across multiple regions.
2. Basic Plan (Freemium): Free tier providing basic alerts, up to 5 devices, 3-day recording, 14-day alert history, and core features including fall detection, face recognition, and region-of-interest monitoring. Serves as customer acquisition funnel.
3. Home Plan Subscription: Monthly subscription at $20/month providing AI-Verified Alerts (reduces false alerts), up to 10 devices, 90-day recording/history, daily email summaries, and all Basic features. Primary recurring revenue stream.
4. Enterprise/Institutional Custom Solutions: Custom solutions for institutions requiring more sensors, longer retention periods, or API support. Contact sales for pricing - quote-based revenue stream.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

AltumView develops and sells Sentinare, an AI-powered activity sensor that uses privacy-preserving on-device AI (stick-figure representations) to monitor seniors and patients. The hardware sensor pairs with mobile/web apps and cloud AI to detect falls, recognize activities, monitor regions of interest, and send alerts. It is sold to both individual family caregivers (consumer) and senior care facilities, hospitals, and research institutions (enterprise).

Product overview

AltumView offers a single unified product ecosystem called Sentinare, an AI Activity Sensor for senior care and patient monitoring. The ecosystem includes the Sentinare hardware sensor device with onboard privacy-preserving AI, companion mobile applications (Sentinare iOS App, Sentinare Android App), a web-based Sentinare Web App, cloud AI services, and an optional Home Plan subscription. The products work together as an integrated system: the sensor captures video and converts it to stick figures on-device, while the mobile and web apps enable caregivers to monitor activities, receive alerts, and communicate. The Home Plan subscription adds AI-Verified Alerts and extended data retention as premium features.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Sentinare: AI Activity Sensor for Senior Care & Patient Monitoring. Combines 'Sentinel' and 'Care' to detect and analyze human activities, track stats, and send alerts for falls, bed leaving, wandering, overstays, and absences. Privacy-preserving stick figures are transmitted via an onboard AI chip.

Products and services

• Sentinare AI Activity Sensor
• Sentinare Basic Plan (Free Mobile App)
• Sentinare Home Plan
• Sentinare Enterprise / Institutional Custom Solution

Quantifiable outcome

• Fall detection range up to 6 meters with slow-fall detection capability and pet immunity
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability10 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

17 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Keihanna Science City (Osaka World Expo 2025)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2025Completed one-year Proof-of-Concept project verifying Sentinare sensor in Japan's real-life environments. Keihanna Science City is the local organizer of Osaka World Expo 2025, representing a strategic partnership for market entry into Japan.
• Amazon (Alexa Together)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSentinare is available on Amazon US and Canada marketplaces, with specific availability through Alexa Together program.
• Porters Care (UK)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorExclusive distributor for UK market.
• NPE (Finland)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorExclusive distributor for Finland market.
• Mio Corp (Japan)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorExclusive distributor for Japan market.
• UM Labo (Japan)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorExclusive distributor for Japan market.
• CBurst (Australia)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorExclusive distributor for Australia market in healthcare segment.
• Kingsford FE (Singapore)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorExclusive distributor for Singapore market.
• Care.LifecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorExclusive distributor partnership for senior care solutions.
• BaycrestminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDistributor relationship with Baycrest, a healthcare organization focused on aging and brain health.
• Therap ServicesminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDistributor relationship with Therap Services for IDD care sector.
• Systems UnltdminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDistributor partnership with Systems Unltd.
• Johns Hopkins UniversityminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerResearch institution using Sentinare technology.
• University of Southern CaliforniaminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerResearch institution using Sentinare technology.
• McMaster UniversityminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerResearch institution using Sentinare technology.
• Carleton UniversityminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerResearch institution using Sentinare technology.
• Simon Fraser University (SFU)minorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerResearch institution using Sentinare technology (local to BC headquarters).

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Aloe Care Health: Aloe Care Health offers a smart elder care system combining a hub-based sensor with fall detection, activity monitoring, and caregiver alerts. It is one of the closest direct comparables to AltumView's Sentinare in target customer, fall-detection use case, and subscription model.
• CarePredict: CarePredict markets an AI-powered wearable and activity-analytics platform for seniors that tracks ADLs, detects anomalies, and predicts health decline. It overlaps with Sentinare on AI-driven activity recognition and senior-care analytics but uses a wearable form factor instead of a fixed sensor.
• Vayyar Care: Vayyar Care uses radar-based, privacy-preserving fall detection and presence sensing for older adults in homes and senior living. It competes directly with AltumView on the privacy-preserving in-home fall-detection use case, differentiated by radar vs. vision-plus-stick-figure technology.

Broad incumbents

• Medical Guardian: Medical Guardian is a large, established U.S. PERS provider offering in-home and mobile medical alert systems with fall detection. It serves the same senior-care buyer but with a traditional PERS pendant/console model rather than a vision-based AI sensor.
• Bay Alarm Medical: Bay Alarm Medical is an established U.S. PERS incumbent offering in-home and on-the-go medical alert devices with optional fall detection. It overlaps with Sentinare's senior fall-detection use case but is built around wearable PERS hardware rather than a fixed AI camera sensor.
• Life Alert: Life Alert is a long-standing incumbent PERS brand offering in-home emergency response and fall-detection pendants. It competes for the same end customer (seniors and adult-child caregivers) but with a classic pendant-and-call-button product rather than AI video/sensor monitoring.
• Apple (Apple Watch): Apple Watch includes built-in fall detection and emergency SOS that millions of seniors (or their family members) already wear. As a broad incumbent, it defines the floor on consumer fall-detection expectations and competes for caregiver mind-share against dedicated elder-care sensors like Sentinare.
• Amazon Alexa Together: Amazon Alexa Together is an Alexa-powered remote care service that combines Echo devices with fall-detection partners and emergency response. It is both an AltumView channel partner (Sentinare on Amazon) and a broad incumbent competing for the same 'aging-in-place' positioning.

Emerging players

• CareBand: CareBand produces wearable location and activity-monitoring devices specifically for people living with dementia, including wandering detection. It overlaps with AltumView's dementia/wandering use case but uses a wrist-worn wearable instead of a fixed privacy-preserving sensor.
• Cherry Home (Cherry Labs): Cherry Home uses AI-driven depth sensors and vision systems for in-home elder monitoring, including fall detection and activity tracking. It competes with Sentinare on AI-powered, in-home senior monitoring but does not use AltumView's distinctive stick-figure privacy approach.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Altumview
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCqE366aD1CvR2B1owanKoYg
• Facebookfacebook.com/AltumViewSystems
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/17883474
• Instagraminstagram.com/altumview

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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