RV Kin

In development: not on sale yet. A small pilot comes first.

Help at the press of a button, or after a fall.

RV Kin is a small pendant for older people who live on their own. If they press its button, or it detects a fall, their family’s phones sound straight away, wherever the family are.

Ask about the pilot How it works

The pendant’s button is pressed. The alert goes by Bluetooth to the wearer’s phone, then over the internet to two family phones, which show “Mum needs help”, then “Priya is responding”. Bluetooth Internet Sent to family Mum needs help Priya is responding Mum needs help Priya is responding

How it works

Three parts work together: the pendant, the wearer’s own smartphone, and the family’s phones.

  1. The pendant

    Worn round the neck. It has one big button and senses a fall. It’s designed to be water-resistant, and runs on a long-life battery, so there’s nothing to charge.

  2. The wearer’s phone

    The pendant talks to the wearer’s smartphone over Bluetooth. Our app passes each alert on, and keeps trying until it’s through.

  3. The family’s phones

    Every family member who joined gets the alert as a loud notification. One taps “I’m responding”, and everyone else is told.

One button

Press
Calls for help. The family are alerted.
Hold for 2 seconds
The wearer’s phone rings their chosen contact.
Press twice
Cancels a help call made by mistake, and the family are told.

The pendant beeps to confirm the alert reached the phone, and beeps differently if it didn’t.

Warnings, not silence

  • The pendant beeps if it’s too far from the wearer’s phone, for example when the phone is left in another room.
  • The family are warned if the pendant stays out of touch with the phone for longer than they chose (15 to 30 minutes).
  • The family are warned if the wearer’s phone stops checking in, because it’s off, flat or out of signal.

What it can’t do

Better you hear this from us now than find out on the day it matters.

  • It needs the wearer’s phone

    Alerts travel through the wearer’s smartphone. That phone has to be nearby (in the same home), switched on, charged, with Bluetooth on and an internet connection. If it isn’t, alerts can’t get through. The beeps and warnings above are there to catch this, but they can’t fix a flat phone.

  • It can’t detect every fall

    No fall detector can. Some falls, such as a slow slide to the floor, may not be detected, and now and then a sudden movement may set off an alert by mistake (press twice to cancel). The button always works, so the wearer can press it whenever they need help.

  • It’s not a medical device or a call centre

    RV Kin doesn’t monitor health, and it doesn’t call the emergency services or a response centre. It tells the family, and the family decide what to do. In an emergency, call 999.

  • Android phones only, for now

    During the pilot, the wearer and their family need Android phones. An iPhone app is planned.

Pay once. No monthly fee.

You’ll buy the pendant once. There’s no subscription: the service behind it is built to cost so little that the price of the pendant covers it for years.

Kept private

We keep only what’s needed to pass an alert on: no tracking, no location, and nothing from the pendant’s motion sensor leaves the pendant. Alerts are deleted after 90 days. Read the privacy policy.

Get in touch

RV Kin is being tested now. If you’d like to take part in the pilot, or just ask a question, email us.

contact@aarvisystems.com